Lesbian Vampire Killers (Review) (Film)
On Friday I was wondering whether to go to the cinema or not so checked the listings for our local Cineworld. The only thing starting at a...
Posted by David Beckett
We are entertained... (Review) (Film)
The hard faced and hard hearted ruler of an empire. That's the picture most people have of Queen Victoria. We have seen the most of her on...
Posted by Rich Goodman
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Review) (Blu-ray)
As Guillermo del Toro couldn’t secure the rights to Hellboy, he couldn’t use any clips so the film begins with a brief summation of...
Posted by David Beckett
Halliwell's The Movies That Matter (Review) (Book)
In the Internet Age, where just about everything about any film can be found from the IMDb or by doing a Google search, you have to wonder:...
Posted by David Beckett
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Review) (Film)
The film begins with a quick summation of Hellboy’s origin, as del Toro couldn’t secure the rights to Hellboy, he couldn’t use any clips....
Posted by David Beckett
Ghost Of Frankenstein (Review) (DVD)
The Frankenstein Franchise was starting to lose steam by this fourth outing, but it is nonetheless magnificent hokum. Ghost of Frankenstein...
Posted by Mark Oates
No watersports or ball games for these girls (Review) (Film)
Grand Jury Prize-nominated Sundance darling How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer, a low-budget character study which looks like it’s...
Posted by Matthew Smart
The Adventures Of... Boxset (Review) (DVD)
Whoops, There Go My Trousers
In the mid-1970s, the British Film Industry was on its last legs. Television had effectively wiped it out....
Posted by Mark Oates
Lesbian Vampire Killers (Film)
Two no-hopers. One cursed village.
A bus full of foreign female students and an army of salacious lesbian vampires. It's gonna be one...
Posted by David Beckett
The Young Victoria (Film)
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
Posted by Rich Goodman
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Blu-ray)
From the visionary director of Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army takes you into fantastical worlds with imaginative creatures and...
Posted by David Beckett
Halliwell’s – The Movies That Matter (Book)
Halliwell’s - The Movies that Matter is a new version of the classic and highly acclaimed Halliwell’s film guide. Smaller and more...
Posted by David Beckett
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Film)
After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A...
Posted by David Beckett
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (Film)
Teenager Bianca (America Ferrara) detests the boys in her small town and takes on a boyfriend in another town in the hope that he might be...
Posted by Matthew Smart
Ghost Of Frankenstein (DVD)
Ygor cunningly tricks Frankenstein’s second son into replacing the monster’s brain with his own, with disastrous and murderous results.
Posted by Mark Oates
Adventures of... Boxset, The (DVD)
Adventures Of A Taxi Driver
The first of the Adventures Of… series follows the exploits of taxi driver Joe North (Barry Evans) who tires of...
Posted by Mark Oates
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Film)
The fedora wearing crusader returns for a fourth outing with some new enemies, new partners and some old friends.
Indy is on a hunt for...
Posted by oly scott
Alice in Wonderland “a mischmasch and a mess”, says Lewis Carroll expert
Will Brooker on Alice in Wonderland
Ten years before he published Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll wrote a regular magazine for his family called Mischmasch – it is a good word to describe Tim Burton’s new film.
Burton misch-mashes elements...
Posted by Reviewer News
Oscar Predictions 2010
As I had finished my Master’s in September I was free this year to spend more time in the cinema and see all of the contenders possible. There are a couple that haven’t been release or shown around here – The Blindside will only hit UK cinemas after...
Posted by David Beckett
Becoming a film addict
For many people, a love of film and cinema was developed from a very young age with weekly (or even more frequent) trips to the local picture house with parents or other relatives. Others may have picked up that habit from friends and relatives at...
Posted by David Beckett
Artivist Film Festival comes to London in March
ARTIVIST FILM FESTIVAL 2010, LONDON
8th February, 2010 - London, UK:
After a successful run in Los Angeles, the 6th Annual International Artivist Film Festival comes to London from 5th – 6th March 2010 at the historic George Bernard Shaw...
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The House of the Devil out in March on DVD and in Cinemas
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
Cinema release: 19th March 2010
DVD & Rental and VOD: 29th March 2010
Running time: 95 minutes
DVD RRP: £15.99
Cert: 18
Set in the 80s and directed by master of horror Ti West (Cabin Fever 2), The House of the...
Posted by Reviewer News
Winter in Wartime out in Cinemas this February
WINTER IN WARTIME
In Cinemas 12th February 2010
A Film by Martin Koolhoven
January 1945. During the last winter of World War II, Nazi occupied Holland lies under a blanket of snow. Food is scarce with many people heading east in a...
Posted by Reviewer News
The Infidel hits Cinemas this April
THE INFIDEL
Released across UK cinemas on 23rd April 2010
Written by
David Baddiel
Directed by
Josh Appignanesi (Song of Songs, Ex Memoria)
Starring
Omid Djalili (Comedian, The Mummy, Gladiator)
Richard Schiff (The West Wing’s “Toby”,...
Posted by Reviewer News
Independent film Broken now on YouTube viewable for Free
As reviewed here on this very site by our own Jitendar (he's not like others, he's our very own!), you can now watch the entire Alex Ferrari independent feature Broken on YouTube. Here is a short piece on what he said about the short:
"Broken is...
Posted by Reviewer News
A Closed Book out in Cinemas and DVD this February
A CLOSED BOOK
RELEASED IN UK CINEMAS 19TH FEBRUARY 2010
RELEASED ON DVD 22ND FEBRUARY 2010
Based on a novel “A Closed Book” by Gilbert Adair
Directed by:
Raoul Ruiz
Screenplay:
Gilbert Adair
Starring:
TOM CONTI – Shirley Valentine,...
Posted by Reviewer News
Queen of Spades out in Cinemas Boxing Day and DVD January
opens nationwide on boxing day 2009
With Special Introduction by Martin Scorsese
available to buy on dvd january 18th 2010
Optimum Releasing is proud to present a special digital re-issue of Thorold Dickinson’s classic supernatural drama THE...
Posted by Reviewer News
Shooting People says go see 1 Day film
Shooting People, the Independent Filmmakers' Networking Community, encourages its 35,000 members to see director and writer Penny Woolcock's '1 Day' film on its Friday 06 November opening after some cinemas withdraw the film on police advice. 'Our...
Posted by Reviewer News
i started a discussion and it disappeared
its ooffical my discussions have been rejected by the system :(
Posted by Sue Davies
Surrounded by (unfinished ) Box Sets !!
I love being able to collect whole series in one gulp. My own collection includes every episode sets of The Prisoner, The...
Posted by Stuart McLean
British Comedy - Great or Grate?
Having just watched the Adventures Of... movies, and for my own amusement working my way through the Rank Carry Ons, I've been...
Posted by Mark Oates