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With its emphasis on extremes – extreme storytelling, extreme topics and extreme film-making techniques, the indie film festival Raindance once again elevates the capital’s cinema-going opportunities to gigantic proportions, with a programme that boasts 250 shorts and documentaries, five of which are banned in other …

In a month that sees the 75th birthday of the Dalai Lama, the Tibet Film Festival returns to London for it’s third year – once again celebrating the art, culture and heritage of a country that has been famously struggling to regain independence from Chinese …

Now in its 10th year, the East End Film Festival has become one of the largest events of its kind in London. A packed nine day programme, spread across thirty East End locations, includes no fewer than 200 screenings showcasing an impressive range of premieres …

If you like your dystopian futures to be served with a cool beer and an intelligent discussion (hey, Londonist will be there), you’re going to like the Big Picture event on 19 April. The Paradise By Way of Kensal Green, one of our fave pubs, …

9 jam packed days, 8 inspired features, 7 penetrating documentaries, 21 visionary shorts, 22 retro movies starring iconic blondes, cutting-edge fashion and music films plus BEV’s commissions of new scores by hot female talent to classic silent films – Birds Eye View is the UK’s …

Michael Cera in Youth in Revolt / image courtesy of Momentum Pictures Our weekly round-up of film reviews Michael Cera gets a dual role in Youth in Revolt, as the typical nerd we know so well and a mean, criminal, French alter-ego, created to win …

Gabourey Sidibe in Precious / image courtesy of Icon Film Our weekly round-up of film reviews Precious – or, to be precise, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire – is the ultimate misery movie: the story of a morbidly obese, illiterate, abused and …

Tahar Rahim and Niels Arestrup in A Prophet / image courtesy of Optimum Releasing Our weekly round-up of film reviews A Prophet “will be bracketed in years to come as a prison drama, but it will stay in the memory of those who see it …

John Hurt and Ian McShane in 44 Inch Chest / image courtesy of Momentum Pictures Our weekly round-up of film reviews The writers of Sexy Beast are back with their leading man for another gangland frillah. But “there is a type of cinemagoer – let’s …

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road / image courtesy of Icon Film Distribution Our weekly round up of film reviews Cormac McCarthy’s book The Road is beloved of book groups for its bleak, apocalyptic vision and questioning of humanity, but it’s never been …