A Royal World Premiere: Alice in Wonderland
You may be forgiven for assuming that a rainy Thursday night, trapped in the beating heart of the tourist-clotted West End of London, would be a far from wondrous experience. Ordinarily you would be right. Tonight, however, was no ordinary Thursday, tonight Wonderland came to London Town!
The Walt Disney Company and Sky 3D / Sky [...]
Spinal Tap Play London!
It is a cold December night in old London town. An extraordinary tour bus circles the streets around Clapham Junction Station, prowling for the perfect place to pull up and party. Opposite the station there stands The Clapham Grand ““ the grand old lady of popular entertainment. Tonight she awaits the arrival of a titan [...]
Seven Go Subterranean in Somerset
When I was asked to cover The Descent: Part 2 for its world premiere, I joked to my fiancé that the eventual junket would be in a cave. Oh how we laughed. Three months later I opened an email inviting me on The Descent: Part 2 junket – it was to take place in a [...]
Exclusive Interview: Jon Harris
Though still only in his early forties Jon Harris has already had a long and impressive career in film. Having worked as editor on such Brit classics as Layer Cake, Snatch and Starter for Ten and worldwide hits The Descent and Stardust, he is much in demand. Indeed he most recently worked on the fervently [...]
Review: The Descent: Part 2
In 2005 Neil Marshall’s imagine-if-Alien-were-set-in-a-cave feature The Descent scared the living daylights out of cinemagoers worldwide. Lacking the bawdy humour of his werewolf masterpiece Dog Soldiers, it was nevertheless an honest to goodness horror film that pulled no punches and left no survivors. Unless you watched the American cut.
The folk who decided to make The [...]
Review: The Girlfriend Experience
Actress Sasha Grey states that her name was dually inspired by The Kinsey Scale of sexuality and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. It is Dorian Gray I recall as I sit in a tiny screening room with the crisp, Vogue editorial, beauty of The Girlfriend Experience unfurling on the screen before me. Utter [...]
Exclusive Interview: Sasha Grey
I am Sasha Grey, there is no other!
It has been a day since Dr Brooke Magnanti gave the broadsheets and daytime shows an excuse to talk about prostitution without any of the pesky people trafficking back-story they are usually compelled to attach. They are, to a one, quite sweaty with glee that the escorting [...]
DVD Review: Public Enemies
“I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars and you. What else do you need to know?“
Public Enemies is Michael Mann’s first venture into true-life territory since 1999’s The Insider. He has long been a master of slick fictionalised crime – his CV is a roll call of criminal capers and cops. The first [...]
The Colour of Fear is Orange
Halloween is a time quite custom designed for tricks, treats and terror. In the world of cinema, there is no film as notoriously terrifying as William Friedkin’s The Exorcist. As a special treat to Orange Film Club members, the tree-lined depths of Tower Hamlets Cemetery came alive tonight with clergy, fog, spirits and curious lights – all leading the [...]
An American Werewolf in Islington
On Wednesday night just off Upper Street, Islington, a curious queue of worshipers formed outside the glorious Union Chapel. No bell rang to summon them there and no single faith united them. They had come to worship at the altar of film.
The Jameson Cult Film Club made the inspired choice of location and throughout the week [...]
