Our friends over at Frightfest release their latest DVDs at the end of the month so if you’ve found January to be a little low on self mutilation, skinning and human taxidermy then things are definitely looking up with Eyes of Crystal and Tears of …
Just a quick, special edition of the FFN this week as there’s no real cinema releases, so Instead we’re going to take a look at the films we’re really looking forward to in 2006. These aren’t necessarily the ones that we ‘guarantee’ will be great, …
It’s been a good year for guitar pop bands and a good year for the folk and anti-folk scenes. So how did the Londonist music dungeon find itself rediscovering the joys of good heavy thrashing noise somewhere between Maximo Park and Sufjan Stevens? No idea, …
All we wanted from the broadsheet reviews this week was to be told that Flightplan is a great film. To be honest, we’re going to see it over the weekend whatever the critics say, because even though we know the plot will be ludicrous and …
Another quick filmy roundup as November is FILLED with just too many flicks. As mentioned yesterday, tonight is the final chance to get along to the Jewish Film Festival, but there’s also a couple more days left of the Latin American Film Festival. If that …
Best use bluetac and not drawing pins to stick it up then. An original poster for Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction film Metropolis has sold for a world record price of $690,000 That beats the price paid for The Mummy poster (watched that again recently …
We were going to leave Blair and his toy soldiers a little time to go away and lick their wounds before we laid into them again but then we read this story in The Telegraph: The Brazilian man shot dead by police in the mistaken …
If you leave for work early enough and stay until after 5 there’s a good chance you’re not seeing much of the sun at the moment so we’d like to take your mind off all that by suggesting you watch a film set almost entirely …
TV is going monster mad this week, in the run-up to Halloween. There are vampires (The Real Vampire Chronicles, Tue 10.55pm C4 – about Allan Menzies, the maladjusted Anne Rice fan who took his Vampire: The Masquerade LARPing way, way too seriously), demons (The Curse …
Seven days to go until the London Film Festival opens its doors. Here’s another two of the films on offer. It turned a few heads when it was announced that Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories) was going to direct the film adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, …
Bubble opens with fresh ground being broken, but it’s only when the camera pulls back that you realise it’s a grave that’s being dug. It’s a loaded opening not only for the plot, but for what the film perhaps represents as an alternative to the …
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