Features
Play it again Barry: A Night At The Oscars.
Film critic Barry Norman is a rare breed; for over 50years he has film fans with his eloquent and robust criticism. Best known as the presenter of the BBC’s Film programme, he now is set to make a one night only appearance at London’s Royal Festival Hall for a very special, musical and movie related, [...]
Cannes by Numbers
The Cannes Film Festival is now well underway with reviews already pouring out from the critics including those for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Sophia Coppola’s The Bling Ring. Each year thousands of journalists and industry professionals gather on the southern coast of France to celebrate film, show casing the best of cinema from [...]
Cannes Film Festival: Cann-ecdotes
In day two of the Cannes Film Festival we talk to the UK’s top film journalists and critics who share their memorable festival moments. Peter Bradshaw (Film Critic at The Guardian) “My most memorable trip to Cannes had to be in 2011, when I was on the Un Certain Regard jury. It was fantastically [...]
Stealing Beauties: Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, is set to screen at the Cannes Film Festival this week. Based on a true story the director’s fifth feature delivers a sobering take on one youth gang’s obsession with fashion, fortune and fame. Fuelled by a taste for luxury brands and couture, the real-life Bling Ring gang targeted the [...]
The Great Gatsby: The West Egg comes to the West End.
Whilst the reviews from Cannes for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby pour in, it is interesting to see how the excitement for this Thursday’s release is building this side of the English Channel. The summer is always a time for “tent-pole movies,”- those that the studios have banked on to bring in big profits as [...]
Out This Week: 17 May 2013
After months of expectation, Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will finally hit cinemas this Thursday. With an all-star cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire, Luhrmann has set about rekindling the sparkle and glamour of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel. Set in the roaring 20’s, we find the would-be-writer, Nick Carraway (Maguire), who [...]
BFI Celebrates Lars Von Trier with his own season
It was back in 1995 that Lars Von Trier, along with fellow Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, sat down and established the Dogme ’95 manifesto, purportedly in just 45 minutes. The aim was to strip film-making of the baubles of special effects and technical wizardry returning to the principle elements of filmmaking, namely- story, acting and [...]
Big In Japan: 25th Anniversary of Studio Ghibli
Imagine you’re packaging a Steven Spielberg double-bill. What would you pair with E.T.? Jurassic Park? Raiders Of The Lost Ark? Schindler’s List? It sounds unlikely but 25 years ago, Japanese animation giants Studio Ghibli released such a combination from its two founding fathers: Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro, a lyrical fantasy about benevolent forest spirits; [...]
Quickfire Chat: Tobey Maguire
Star of Baz Luhrmann’s soon to be released, The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire stops of with us for a quickfire chat to discuss being Gatsby’s pal, on screen and off. Maguire plays Nick Carraway, a would-be-writer who is befriended by the enigmatic millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Leaving the Midwest on the eve of the [...]
Edgar Wright’s The World’s End Trailer has landed.
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunited for the final instalment of the Cornetto Trilogy, At World’s End. The new trailer, that has been released today, sees the comic talents of the trio bolstered by performances from Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike and Martin Freeman. Pegg stars as Gary King, a man desperate [...]
