Spielberg and Lucas speak on the impending “Implosion” of the film industry

Each summer, week after week, cinema-goers are bombarded by big-budget (usually super-hero based) cinematic blockbusters to amuse and entertain. These movies typically cost around $200million or more, and are counted on by the Big Six (Paramount, Sony, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Disney) to be their biggest profits. The window they have for [...]

Jessica Chastain takes it “Interstellar”

Jessica Chastain is in talks to star in Christopher Nolan’s latest directorial project, Interstellar. It has been previously announced that Matthew McConaughey and Oscar- winner Anne Hathaway will also be taking lead roles in this new sci-fi. The project was originally to be directed by Steven Spielberg; however he abandoned the project in favour of [...]

John Williams to score Star Wars Episode VII

In the latest Star Wars reboot related news J.J. Abrams, director of the soon to be released Star Trek: Into Darkness, has expressed that he wants the composer of Lucas’ original trilogy and prequels to score Episode VII. William’s iconic score is perhaps one of the most memorable in movie history, be in the trumpeting [...]

Oscars: Countdown- Our Predictions

With only a few hours remaining until the big ceremony kicks off we thought we would do a quick Oscars predictions rundown. It is sure to be an interesting night, undoubtedly with a few surprises along the way. Here are our thoughts, thinking with our heads and not our hearts – as always we always [...]

Argo Reigns Supreme at the EE BAFTA Awards

Last night London’s Covent Garden Opera House played host to Britain’s biggest and brightest stars for the annual EE BAFTA Film Awards. Despite the intermittent flurry of snow and down pours of rain the stars squelched down the red carpet with as much showbiz as they could muster in their shiver states all to gather [...]

Beautiful BAFTA Programme Designs

Each year Britain’s answer to the Oscars, the BAFTA’s (The British Academy of Film and Television Arts), commissions one illustrator to create unique designs for their programme covers. This year the task fell to the talented Jonathan Burton and what a tremendous job he has done. Studio Small is responsible for commissioning Burton, who took [...]

5 Minutes With: Daniel Day-Lewis

The British-Irish actor discusses the Method, make-up and not working in construction. You strike a very convincing portrait of Abraham Lincoln. How did you go about looking the part? Daniel Day-Lewis: By the time they’d got it down to a fine art it was probably an hour-and-a-half in the make-up chair every morning. Theydid wonderful work. The trouble with any work [...]

The Contenders: Awards Season

Lincoln leads the way at this year’s BAFTAs and Oscars. Awards season furore reached fever pitch earlier this month with the eagerly anticipated announcements of this year’s BAFTA and Academy Award nominations. Heading up the field is Steven Spielberg’s civil war drama Lincoln, with an impressive tally of 10 BAFTA and 12 Oscar nominations including joint sets for Best Film, Best [...]

In Cinemas 25 January 2013

This week’s new releases include Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, The Last Stand, Movie 43 and Won’t Back Down. Lincoln Daniel Day-Lewis stars in this biopic of American President Abraham Lincoln as he battles to end the Civil War and to abolish slavery. Directed by Steve Spielberg. Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow directs this chronicle of [...]

2013 BAFTA Film Award Nominations Announced

Today, the nominations for the 2013 British Academy Film Awards have been announced. Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln leads the way with 10 nominations, though the director himself missed out. Life Of Pi and Les Misérables followed up in second with 9 nominations apiece. Skyfall, widely expected to make a splash at this year’s award ceremony, took 8 nominations, [...]