Official Film Chart -28th August 2019
Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame debuts at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart with the highest-ever opening week of digital download sales. Just five weeks after becoming the highest-grossing film of all ...
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This Week’s Cinema Highlights – 26th July 2019
It’s another one of those in-between weeks as far as cinema releases are concerned. As well as little direct competition to the overpowering release of The Lion King last week, new films are sh...
Woman At War – Preview
To her friends, Halla (Halldóra Geirharõsdóttir) leads a quiet and routine existence. But her happy and upbeat exterior hides a secret double life as a committed environmental activist. Known to othe...
A Private War – Review
We have a tendency to take for granted the images we see on our televisions screens, especially from the areas of trouble around the world. The fact that people go in there to record and report on th...
Grave of the Fireflies
Anyone who thinks that anime is simply full of wide-eyed, giggling young girls and over-the-top fantasy sequences clearly hasn’t seen the raw and unflinching Grave of the Fireflies. Film 4 have...
Mary’s Top Ten of 2017
It’s been a funny old year for cinema. There have been extreme highs and lows; breathtaking pieces of craft to sleazy sex scandals. It’s a year when Hollywood really has had to take a goo...
Journey’s End: First Trailer
A wealth of British acting talent are set to bring R.C. Sherriff’s 1928 play, Journey’s End, from stage to screen as Suite Francaise and The Duchess director, Saul Gibb, brings the horror...
Alone in Berlin
When Hans Fallada sat down to write Every Man Dies Alone, he was creating one of the first anti-Nazi books to be published in post-war Germany. Having spent many years incarcerated in an insane asylu...
The Notebook
“The fifth commandment is ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ … But everybody kills.” Based on Agota Kristof’s trilogy of novels, twin brothers find themselves plunged into Hungary’s colossal defeat towards the e...