Last week saw the release of Nordic thriller, A Hijacking, directed by Tobias Lindholm. When the crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates it is left to the companies CEO, played by Søren Malling, to handle the negotiations. Pilou Asbæk plays the ships cook, Mikkel who is desperate to return home [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Today a new trailer and poster were revealed for Snitch, a fast -paced action thriller starring Dwayne “The Rock,” Johnson and Susan Sarandon. Johnson stars as John Matthews, a father whose teenage son is the victim of a set up leading to him to be wrongly accused of a dealing narcotics leaving him looking at [...]
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 [...]
We first met arch-antihero Riddick (Vin Diesel) in David Twohy’s Pitch Black in 2000, then again in the much larger scale 2004 follow up, The Chronicles of Riddick. Now the thuggish alien is back for a third instalment once again directed by Twohy titled, Riddick. Vin Diesel reprises the role, once again joined by Karl [...]