Theatre

Last week saw the release of Werner Herzog’s brilliantly re-imagined Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans on DVD, a stylised drug fuelled trip through the mind of crooked cop…

Mr. Nice Bernard Rose UK, 2010, 121 mins, 18 In typically astute fashion, renowned raconteur Howard Marks will be gracing stages across the UK throughout October 2010 for a tour…

Made in Dagenham Nigel Cole UK, 2010, 113mins, 15 Directed by Nigel Cole (Calendar Girls) and starring Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky), Made in Dagenham is packed full of British…

In 2009, 3D films exploded. Coraline, Up and Monsters Vs. Aliens, were just a few of the blockbusters to embrace the medium, and it would take a colder cynic than…

I managed to avoid the Twilight phenomenon when it first emerged. If you read Stephanie Meyer’s novels, you lovingly traced the words “Mrs Edward Cullen” onto your schoolbooks, invested in…

As the second-highest grossing film of all time, there can be no arguing that Avatar has had a massive effect on many people. However, director and writer James Cameron may…

London’s Park Lane is a very sophisticated, attractive and wealthy area. Even to just take a stroll down this illustrious avenue one feels as if they ought to own at…

South Korean Director Park Chan-Wook shot onto the world cinema stage with the middle part of his revenge trilogy Old Boy (2003), winning the grand jury prize at Cannes, and…

It will come as no surprise to learn that Pixar’s latest cinematic offering is outstanding. In fact it is hard to convey in words just how brilliant Up really is,…

Walking down into a dark basement in Komedia, I had a vague impression of walking into a seedy underground bar. After checking that I had indeed walked into a showing…

In an alternate world where everyone tells the absolute truth and has no concept of falsehood, one man, Mark Bellison (Ricky Gervais) discovers that he can lie. Initially there is…

Yes, apparently summer 2009 has finished! Already! Mental. Here are three very good films from that short, largely cold and rainy period, which you may have missed:

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film Three Monkeys is beautiful and captivating. Set in the dusty, hectic Turkish city Istanbul, the rushing trains and the honking cars lay in contrast to the…

I am sat in the rather grand and glamorous Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kensington. There is enough marble and gold here to please even the most luxurious of people, so…

Well, if you are, this is the right article to read! The Brighton Filmmakers Coalition (BFC) is a hub for the local film making community. It is a chance for…

It’s taken over 20 years for Alan Moore’s seminal graphic novel to reach the silver screen but Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the superhero epic doesn’t disappoint. Watchmen has gone through…

The Class is a compelling film based on the autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau about a teacher working at a school in the poor suburbs of Paris where cultural and…

“Too commercial and too much focused on the Hollywood star system…” This is how many people often find the Academy Awards. Besides Britain becoming the focus of these awards (Slumdog…

The launch event for this year’s See Festival was a showing of a feature-length documentary made by two local film-makers, Corinna McFarlane and Robert Cannan. The subect was Sweden’s No…

The latest “Futureshorts” medley seems to have been scheduled to avoid mainstream audiences- well, families, the elderly, and those who have to clock in early the next morning- as it’s…