Film

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 …

Lots to cover this week, so let’s crack on with things. Friday: A solid double-bill here as part of the BFI Southbank’s Time Machine season, which explores cinema as a “time-based and time-obsessed medium”. Alain Resnais’ Last Year in Marienbad unfolds like a perfect modernist …

September is up to the eyeballs with amazing events and things to do. For those who like their cultural outings to be as cutting edge and experimental as possible, there is Collision, a three night festival of music, film, visual art and live performance. Aptly …

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, Sir Ben gets groovy in The Wackness, Will Ferrell continues to coast on his comic abilities in Step Brothers and the comeback no-one was waiting for with Vin Diesel in Babylon AD. …

Those amiable people in the Kudocities London crew have organised a drinking session thinly disguised as a cultural outing to the National Portrait Gallery. There’s a free film showing in the Ondjaatie Wing about artist John Virtue and his commission to paint a series of …

The Olympics have been put to bed and there’s nothing but bilge on the box. Time to extract yourself from the sofa and skulk down the local uniplex to see what’s shaking, where this week the delights include a pair of triple-bills – including probably …

This week the London-set Somers Town (that’s Kings Cross to you and me), the spy ‘comedy’ Get Smart and some dirge from Disney called College Road Trip. With Somers Town, director Shane Meadows has left his traditional East Midlands stomping ground behind and headed to …

It’s Frightfest! And we have two separate giveaways for the brave souls who have pants strong enough for these special premieres… From the director of The Hills Have Eyes comes Mirrors is the terrifying story of troubled ex-cop Ben Carson (Sutherland) who must save his …