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Mild-mannered civilian by day, passionate cinephile and dedicated blogger at night, my obsession began with seeing the image of Luke staring wistfully at the two stars of Tatooine, and 30-plus years later, that love have never wavered.
If The Artist was a flawless recreation of the silent era, then Populaire is a sumptuous homage to the kind of chirpy Doris Day and Rock Hudson rom-coms which personified Hollywood during the 50s and 60s. This is a frothy and stylish French romantic fable with an unlikely yet endearing Rocky-like central premise. Rose Pamphyle [...]
It’s fitting that Sleepwalk with Me should play at Sundance London. It’s the kind of film which is reminiscent of the intimate, warmly humorous and sharply perceptive indie cinema which really came to personify the festival during the early 90s. The brainchild of US comedian Mike Birbiglia, it’s a film whose cinematic roots actually reach [...]
Legendary author Ernest Hemingway may have lived a life chock-full of adventure but his biggest challenge appears to have been his own demons. Running From Crazy finds renowned documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple taking an intimate look at the legacy of mental health issues which have dogged three generations of the Hemingway family. To help her [...]
Having debuted here at the London Film Festival two years back, Richard Linklater’s darkly comedic character study finally receives a theatrical release. This gap may have been, in part, down to the distributor, as the film isn’t the easiest to market. It’s a quiet, muted affair with a style of humour worlds away from the [...]
La Haine’s Mathieu Kassovitz returns, licking his wounds, to home soil following his less than auspicious results in Hollywood (he disowned the theatrical cut of his 2008 Vin Diesel apocalyptic actioner Babylon AD). Not one to shy away from a challenge, he’s back in the directors chair, as well as co-writing, co-producing and starring in [...]
Tron Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski returns with his sophomore effort which easily transcends the already impressive visual scope of his debut feature, but suffers from having an unremarkable script which is a mash-up of overly-familiar sci-fi tropes, offering little in the way of uniqueness or surprise when the revelatory moments present themselves. A portentous voice-over from [...]
The buzz around James Mangold’s Japan-set re-interpretation of popular X-Men, Wolverine has been gaining momentum for a little while now in small bursts (which was literally the case with the 20 second teaser of a teaser released the other day). The director has also been releasing images and mini-mood boards via his twitter account, which have [...]
Olympic Park’s favourite son Danny Boyle made a return trip (of sorts) last Friday when he paid a visit to the Vue Cinema at Westfield Stratford City shopping centre to chat with cinema audiences following a screening of his latest film, Trance. Boyle was his usual engaging and exuberant self, answering questions with the kind [...]
Whilst growing up many of you may have kept records of your cinematic viewing for your own personal consumption. Perhaps you had a pocketbook with a crude ratings system scribbled in there and cut-outs from the various films magazines which were once on the market. Maybe you used a photo album to store and collate [...]
A quiet, richly-layered ensemble piece, Neighbouring Sounds is an absorbing social melodrama, that’s low on the drama (and pretty mellow, for that matter). It offers a convincing glimpse at a contemporary Brazil, a country which is rapidly shifting up the global economic ladder, and bringing about a noticeable social polarity in the process. Some of [...]
Lucasfilm has had its fair share of turkeys amongst those highly lucrative box-office cash cows, and 1988’s children’s fantasy film Willow represents something of a creative middle ground for the company. Somewhat lacking the storytelling verve of those Skywalker and Co. adventures, it certainly wasn’t anywhere close to the awfulness that was Howard the Duck. [...]
Heading straight to the land of DTV in the US, the presence of Bruce Willis in a supporting role is undoubtedly the only reason why Fire With Fire was deemed worthy enough for a big-screen release over here. Make no mistake – this is future Channel 5 fodder, although a sub-standard episode of CSI offers [...]
The journey from page to screen is an often arduous one. The ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ nature of the adaptation means that the makers walk a creative tightrope in trying to appease fans of the novel whilst catering for cinema viewers, many of whom are outsiders to that established world. Even [...]
It was 2004 when Australian director Cate Shortland’s much-praised debut Somersault was entered in the Un Certain Regard section at that Cannes Film Festival, and now, almost a decade later, she finally makes her return to cinema screens with World War 2 drama, Lore. The long wait has been well worth it, however. Somersault’s themes [...]
The success of last year’s OAP fish-out-of-water yarn The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was solid proof that the cinema was more than capable of enticing a demographic outside of those flocking to witness the latest superhero firework displays. As studios and filmmakers are coming around to catering for the grey pound (and let’s face it, [...]
Love is currently in the air for the film-themed event company Future Cinema, who have really delivered the goods with their interpretation of arguably the greatest romantic feature of all-time – 1942’s wartime classic Casablanca. Transforming London’s East End venue Troxy into a mock-up of Humphrey Bogart’s iconic watering hole-cum-resistance outlet (complete with beautiful art-deco [...]
For a while now seasoned A-list movie stars unhappy with the dearth of quality mainstream roles available on the big screen have sought refuge in the world of TV with often successful, career-defining results. Into that arena steps one Kevin Bacon. Although fresh in many UK viewer’s minds for his UK-centric TV stream-of-consciousness rants in [...]
Like the resurfacing of the original Inglorious Bastards a couple of years back, Django, Prepare A Coffin makes its small screen debut to tie-in with the release of Quentin Tarantino’s next cinema outing, Django Unchained. Both of these films share only scant comparisons with their cinematic namesakes. In the case with this below-par offering, that’s [...]
Walton Goggins has made quite a name for himself on the small screen, leaving an indelible, villainous mark as corrupt LA cop and livewire Shane Vendrell in The Shield, and currently as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens’ complex and contradictory nemeses in Justified, Boyd Crowder. A much-needed breath of fresh air in both 2010’s bloated Predators [...]
Eve Stewart is an award-winning Production Designer with an impressive list of British hits under her belt including The King’s Speech, Vera Drake, Revolver to name but a few. Her biggest undertaking yet has to be the lavish adaptation of famed musical Les Misérables. The playful and refreshingly down-to-earth UK-based BAFTA and Oscar nominated designer [...]
