Under The Skin First Full Trailer
The first full trailer for the forthcoming Scarlett Johansson film Under The Skin has just been released. Based on the cult novel of the same name by Dutch author Michel Faber, the story centres arou...
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RoboCop Featurette – Man And Machine
As part of the publicity leading up to the release of the remake of RoboCop the film studio released a number of short behind the scenes features. The Man and Machine two-part feature takes us behind...
Nymphomaniac One Night Stand In The UK
The director Lars Von Trier seems unable or unwilling to avoid controversy even when he does not directly promote his films. After his Nazi comments while promoting Melancholia at the 2011 Cannes fil...
Sleepless in Seattle back in cinemas
In a very shrewd move the celebrated romantic comedy returns to cinema screens for one day only on Valentines day. Twenty one years on from the initial release the film still stands up as a high wate...
La Guarimba Film Festival
It’s always good to hear of a success story, especially one that happens against the odds. The short film About the resistance looks at what it took to create a film festival out of nothing. A ...
The Raid 2 new trailer
After the initial teaser The Raid 2 gets a full trailer release. The story takes place soon after the events of the first film and expands the action from the tower block of The Raid. One of the appe...
Oscar nominations announced
The nominees for the 86th Oscar ceremony have been announced. Three films stand out from the announcement. The Steve McQueen drama 12 years a Slave picked up nine nominations which include three of t...
Aningaaq
A short companion piece to Alfonso Cuaron’s film Gravity has been released. The film revisits a key scene from the film where The stranded astronaut played by Sandra Bullock makes contact with ...
New Releases for January
January sees the award hopefuls hitting the UK screens in advance of The Golden Globes, The BAFTAs and the Oscars. So there are not many blockbuster films around except those left over from the holi...
Winchester 73
Nineteen fifty was a good year for the main players in the movie Winchester 73. The director Anthony Mann was on a run of form having directed a number of very well received Noir films over the prece...