cinema

This week – The accompanying film to Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, the 1945 invasion of Iwo Jima as experienced by the Japanese Imperial Army. (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Jim Carrey gets obsessed with the number 23 (The Number 23). Today had the …

So how many people did a double take when handed The London Paper on Friday? The headline read GIANT MONSTERS ON TUBE, but it was, alas, just an advert for the latest episode of Primeval. Anyone try and fool a gullible/drunk friend with tales of …

The Battle of Thermopylae has stirred the blood of writers many times (Herodotus through William Golding to most recently Steven Pressfield) and its story of a small force battling a vast invading army has been filmed once before, back in 1962. Seemingly drawn to difficult …

This week – Simon Pegg polices the country town of Sandford (Hot Fuzz) and Jennifer Love Hewitt lives in Bristol (The Truth About Love). First, we must say sorry for the lack of Saturday Cinema Summary last week. We were saving London from certain destruction. …

This sounds like fun: BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS LIVE! Catch one of the most acclaimed films of 2003 on the big screen with a live soundtrack featuring turntables, accordion and guitar produced and performed by Animat with special guest Ed Carter (Winter North Atlantic) as seen at …

There’s a throwaway line in Clint Eastwood’s Flags of our Fathers that underlines the weakness in that film but promised that there was much more to come in his companion piece, Letters from Iwo Jima: This was the fifth day, sir. The battle went on …

Funnily enough we rewatched the 1936 adaptation of HG Wells’ The Shape of Things To Come over the weekend and were looking fior a way to mention it on Londonist because of the striking similarities between Everytown and here. Then we got an email informing …

Although it’s almost ten years old Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue still stands up as a classic piece of adult anime (and by adult we mean it’s a sophisticated piece of cinema in case you were thinking ‘tentacle rape’) and it’s great that the Barbican are …

Leonardo DiCaprio was yesterday nominated for an Oscar for his role as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond, while his co-star, Djimon Hounsou, is up for a Best Supporting Oscar. The film directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, The Siege) is first and foremost an …