movies

We’ve been watching SFist‘s coverage of the Spring Asian Film Series with growing jealousy until we realised that we could put on our own best of Asia line-up on by simply harvesting the shops in Chinatown. Sometimes you just get tired of waiting for distributors …

Londonist was somewhat surprised to find out this morning that there are not one but two new Star Wars films on the way. Slashdot drew our attention to Star Wars Revalations, a new fan film with even ropier acting than the originals but some great …

If you work/live anywhere near Regent Street then you’ve probably noticed the weirdly named Gizmondo store which has looked to be on the verge of opening since the end of last year. Now, finally, we hear that the store is to open its doors on …

And talking of sci-fi adaptations… …Reading Bookslut this morning we came across a link to a post on the Newsarama forums from a guy who, it seems, has read the script for the forthcoming V for Vendetta film. After From Hell this is Alan Moore’s …

We spent the weekend watching old Quatermass movies on DVD, all giddy with the news that the prof was heading back to our screens (as posted here). Now we hear that the new Doctor Who will bypass American audiences as it’s “too damned English” which …

There’s a great article over at, film critic, Robger Ebert’s website which examines the spoiling of film plotlines by critics and reviewers. Concentrating on Million Dollar Baby in particular (so don’t read the article if you haven’t seen that film yet) Ebert takes on those …

Tower Bridge would have to rate as one of London’s

On the surface of things this week looks like a good one for going to the pictures, as there’s some pretty heavyweight offerings out there. The only problem is that, when heavyweight movies lumber into the ring, they’ve got a lot of expectations tagging along …

Back at the end of December we listed the films that we were particularly looking forward to in 2005. So far that list seems to have acted like a kiss of death on the movies we mentioned. Meet the Fockers was generally received as a …

The big release this week is raging smug-fest Oceans Twelve, a sequel to the remake of Oceans Eleven, and it’s not fairing well with the critics. Bradshaw in the Guardian maintains his always high standard of vitriol with probably the harshest line directed towards welsh …