A look at what’s on the silver screen beyond your local Odeon. Thursday: We hadn’t heard of Lupe Yoli, or “La Lupe”, before, but if the above picture of the “Afro-Cuban bad girl of Latin music” doesn’t grab your attention, then you might just be …
In this series, we look at films with one thing in common: London. Our only rule is that the films must have either the word London or a London place name in the title. Other than that, any film is fair game. The London Nobody …
Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, the diminishing returns of Brideshead, Simon Pegg in How to Lose Friends and the truly bleak Import / Export. As the Guardian says in the review for Brideshead Revisited, “why revisit it?” …
A pair of Antonioni pictures, a classic London whodunnit, a “mythbusting” doc on Iran and a sneak preview of the new film starring Ellen Page of Juno fame: it’s a week of contrasts at London’s rep cinemas. Thursday: Michaelangelo Antonioni’s death last year, on the …
Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week’s biggest release is also the biggest letdown; the De Niro / Pacino team up Righteous Kill. We also have the preposterous looking Death Race as well as Kristin Scott Thomas drowning in …
The Serpentine Pavilion has but a few weeks before being dismantled, so why not spend the evening watching a double-bill of films under the asymmetrical awning of London’s first, and perhaps only, Gehry? Night And Fog, Alan Resnais’ short, sober documentary about the Nazi concentration …
The British Film Institute turns 75 this month, and they’re throwing a big Birthday Weekender bash at their swank Southbank and IMAX locations to celebrate. Things kick off tonight with an audiovisual performance that aims to “glance into the future of cinema” and mix it …
A certified celluloid classic, a crowd-pleasing trilogy, and an original if less than definitive “history” of the cinema: there’s something for everybody this week. Thursday: Citizen Kane is the Ulysses of film: hugely influential, yet more talked about than seen. But its ubiquitous position atop …
This time of year is a cinematic no-mans land; we’re post summer blockbuster and pre-Oscar baiters. We’re left with the extremes of the ludicrously high concept Tropic Thunder and the very low key Unrelated. Tropic Thunder has got some mixed reviews, and you’ll probably know …
Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week a nice young couple get brutally terrorised by hoodies in Eden Lake, a couple of stoners try and track down some Pineapple Express and holocaust film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. …
Sex will be had in a different city the next time around, if Mr Big gets his way. That’s because Chris Noth, the 53-year-old actor who played Sarah Jessica Parker’s long-time love interest-cum-sugar daddy in both the Sex and the City series and movie, would …
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