With Lucia Puenzo’s third film, Wakolda, she picks up on many of the themes that have laced her career so far in prior works XXY and The Fish Child. Fascinated by genetics, the human body and adolescence, she now tackles the thorny subject of Nazism in her native country of Argentina. Adapting her own novel [...]
Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot, Man Of Steel, is less than a month away and things are certainly hotting up with the release of a new trailer featuring a lot of General Zod (Michael Shannon). The reboot will present Superman as we haven’t seen him before on screen. The darker notes of what we have seen [...]
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 [...]
As you may have read in our Play It Again Barry feature, cherished UK film critic Barry Norman is hosting a very special night at London’s Royal Festival Hall, A Night At The Oscars. In what is set to be a wondrous night celebrating the relationship between film and music, where the Philharmonia Orchestra, helmed [...]
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 [...]