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Red-Band First Trailer and Poster for Filth with James McAvoy & Jamie Bell

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Marking the latest big screen adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s work, Filth sees James McAvoy leading a stellar cast for writer-director Jon S. Baird’s sophomore feature. With the film set to be released on our shores later this year, Lionsgate have debuted the first trailer, and it’s just as red-band and unsuitable for work as you’d [...]




The Wee Man Review

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Assembling a host of esteemed Scottish performers, Ray Burdis presents The Wee Man, a cinematic depiction of the real-life story of infamous gangster Paul Ferris. This perturbing tale has finally been brought to our attention, having been something of a notorious story already up in Scotland, yet one that has failed to fully reach out [...]




When The Lights Went Out DVD Review

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True stories adapted into film are seemingly everywhere nowadays. For every Paranormal Activity clone that there is, it’s easy to slap a ‘Based on True Events’ label on the film and give it extra weight. All of the events in these types of films are so familiar and so similar to what many claim actually [...]




New Trailer & Poster for The Wee Man with Martin Compston and John Hannah

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The gangster film is one of the genres we tend to do better than anyone else here in the UK, and The Wee Man is shaping up to be a very promising entry into that genre. Hitting UK cinemas in just over a month’s time, the film sees Martin Compston (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) [...]




Sister Review

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Written and directed by Ursula Meier, her follow-up to the acclaimed family drama Home, Sister is an intimate portrayal of the tumultuous relationship between two siblings set against the stunning, yet eerily isolated backdrop of the Swiss Alps. As the murky and increasingly strained relationship between Simon and Louise is scrutinised through the sharpened screenplay [...]




Four – DVD Review

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A husband (Craig Conway) pays a detective (Sean Pertwee) to bring his wife (Kierston Wareing) and her lover (Martin Compston) to an abandoned warehouse so that he can torment them, punish them and extract the truth from them. Inevitably, all is not as it seems and a number of power-plays develop as the truth is [...]




Piggy Review

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London seems to be awash with potentially violent males lurking on every street corner, ready to explode with pent up rage given the right situation – if homegrown cinema is anything to go by. Debut writer-director Kieron Hawkes’ Piggy is another depressingly gritty tale of modern-day woe from the UK capital’s ‘mean’ streets that follows [...]




Exclusive NSFW Clip from Piggy

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Piggy is Kieron Hawkes’ feature debut and tells the brutal story of a young drifter whose life descends into a terrible spiral of murder and revenge when he and his brother suffer a life-changing incident. Paul Anderson, Martin Compston,  Josh Herdman and Kill List’s Neil Maskell head up the cast and in this exclusive clip, [...]




How to Stop Being a Loser Premiere Report

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We had a good time with Dominic Burns’ How to Stop Being a Loser and the recent premiere in London gave us a chance to catch up with the cast and crew. Along with Dave’s review (which you can read here) we have two interviews coming up over the next couple of days, with leading [...]




Win Tickets to the London Premiere of How to Stop Being a Loser

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We’ve been given five pairs of tickets to the UK Premiere of How to Stop Being a Loser which takes place next Monday, 14th November and you could be walking the carpet with the stars. Find out more by scrolling down. From Black and Blue Films, How to Stop Being a Loser follows James (Simon [...]




Exclusive: New Poster & Images from How to Stop Being a Loser

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Here’s the first UK Quad poster for new British movie, How to Stop Being a Loser which hits UK cinemas 18th November. It has a great cast which includes Gemma Atkinson, Simon Phillips, Stephanie Leonidas, Martin Compston, Billy Murray, Colin Salmon, Martin Kemp, Sheridan Smith, Adele Silva, Colin Salmon and Richard E Grant. If you [...]




Orange Film to Go Presents – SoulBoy

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Here’s one for Orange customers and information on how you can get the Orange Film to Go this week.  Every week, Orange will be doing their Film Night Live which is an online web streaming Q&A to coincide with the movie that they are giving away for nothing (I can’t use the word ‘free’ but [...]




Karen Gillan, Martin Compston and Emun Elliott to Star in Not Another Happy Ending

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Karen Gillan (Doctor Who), Martin Compston (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) and Emun Elliott (Black Death) have signed on to star in indie comedy Not Another Happy Ending. Written by David Solomoms, Not Another Happy Ending center on an eccentric author (Gillan) suffering from writer’s block after she finds success with a best-selling novel. John McKay [...]




EIFF 2011 – Ghosted Review

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Ghosted, a gritty and brutal prison drama, is the feature length debut from camera-operator and short filmmaker Craig Viveiros. The film centers on Jack (John Lynch), a model prisoner who has kept his head down and is close to completing his time. However, after his wife leaves him for another man, his final lifeline comes in the [...]




Debut Trailer for British Crime Thriller Ghosted

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Revolver Entertainment have released the debut trailer for crime thriller Ghosted. Directed by newcomer Craig Viveiros, Ghosted stars Martin Compston, John Lynch, David Schofield, Craig Parkinson, Art Malik, Amanda Abbington, Hugh Quarshie and Liran Nathan. Jack (Lynch), a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife leaves him on the [...]




The First Trailer for How To Stop Being A Loser

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Black and Blue & Press on Features have just sent over their brand new trailer for new movie, How To Stop Being A Loser. You might remember we placed the new posters for the film a little while back and they tie in perfectly with this new footage. How to Stop Being a Loser boasts [...]




Exclusive: Three New Posters for How to Stop Being a Loser

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Black and Blue & Press on Features have been in touch and asked to to debut these three new posters for brand new movie, ‘How to Stop Being a Loser’. The movie has a fantastic cast which includes Simon Phillips, Gemma Atkinson, Stephanie Leonidas, Martin Compston, Billy Murray, Craig Conway, Colin Salmon, Martin Kemp, Sheridan [...]




Win The Disappearance of Alice Creed on DVD

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Icon Home Entertainment have been kind enough to give us three copies of their new movie, The Disappearance of Alice Creed to give away on DVD. The movie stars Gemma Arterton, Eddie Marsan, Martin Compston and is written and directed by J Blakeson. It’s set for release on DVD and Blu-ray Monday 4th October and [...]




Watch the First 5 Minutes of The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Gemma Arterton picks her movies very carefully. When I got to meet and interview her a few months ago for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time she talked about how much she enjoyed doing the smaller independent movies as well as the Hollywood blockbusters. The Disappearance of Alice Creed has been and gone in [...]




Soulboy Review – HeyUGuys at the Edinburgh Film Festival

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A charming film from Shimmy Marcus, SoulBoy is the story of Joe (Martin Compston, Sweet Sixteen), an aspiring cool guy in his late-teens. Life in Stoke-on-Trent becomes more exciting when a new girl in town (Nichola Burley) introduces him to the world of Soul. With his heart set on her, he throws himself into the [...]