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Fading Gigolo
With a witty observational script, amusing characters and a jazzy sense of life in New York, this feels like an old-fashioned Woody Allen movie, even though Allen merely costars in it. Instead, it was written...
Movie Review posted on 24th May 2014
Blended
Even with its inane script and limp direction, this film is watchable simply because Drew Barrymore is present to humanise Adam Sandler. How she does this is a mystery, but the fact remains that he's...
Movie Review posted on 24th May 2014
A Week In Movies: Cannes Winds Down, Episode VII And Batman v Superman Cranks Up, New Trailers Promise Lots Of Action For Summer And Autumn
As the Cannes Film Festival winds down this weekend, a handful of films are emerging as frontrunners for the prestigious awards ceremony. Higher-profile contenders include David Cronenberg's 'Map to the Stars' starring Robert Pattinson, Mike...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd May 2014
Fading Gigolo: New York stories
Actor-filmmaker John Turturro made some canny choices in casting for his new comedy Fading Gigolo, in which he plays a hapless New Yorker whose friend suggests that he might have a new career as a...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd May 2014
Blended: A Barrymore-Sandler Reunion - How Did This Start?
Blended marks the third time Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler have teamed up on-screen, recapturing the strong chemistry that made both The Wedding Singer (1998) and 50 First Dates (2004) such big hits. But how...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd May 2014
X-Men: Back Together Again in Days of Future Past
Possibly the biggest reunion movie of all time, X-men: Days of Future past isn't just a sequel to 2011's X-men: First Class, but also to the original 2000-2003 trilogy.James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart confront younger...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd May 2014
A Week In Movies: Double Premieres For Godzilla And X-Men, Cannes Kicks Off, Bradley Cooper Films In L.A., And New Trailers For Robert Pattinson, Chris Evans And Sam Claflin
The stars of both Godzilla and X-men: Days of Future Past turned out for a pair of big premieres over the past week. Godzilla, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston, had its world...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th May 2014
With Bryan Singer Back in the Saddle, X-Men Franchise Thrives Again
Bryan Singer's first two X-men movies are considered high-points of the superhero genre, combining strong characters, ripping action and deep layers of resonant subtext. Then he abandoned the franchise to make Superman Returns (2006), leaving...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th May 2014
Gareth Edwards Reboots The King of Monsters, 'Godzilla'
It was 1954 when Gojira first hit the big screen in Ishiro Honda's now iconic monster movie, made as a reply to the USA dropping two atom-bombs on Japan less than a decade earlier. But...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th May 2014
Don Peyote
The most surprising thing about this comedy is that it's not very funny, but then it's not meant to be. This is a trippy odyssey into the mind of a drug-addled guy who thinks the...
Movie Review posted on 16th May 2014
The Two Faces of January
This sun-drenched thriller is much more than a pretty picture: it's also a slow-burning story about moral compromises that worms its way under the skin. Based on a Patricia Highsmith novel, there are clear parallels...
Movie Review posted on 16th May 2014
Concussion
A sharply observed odyssey of middle-aged self-discovery, this strikingly offbeat film may feel a little vague in its approach, but it carries a strong kick. And watching the central character work out what she really...
Movie Review posted on 16th May 2014
In Secret
Filmmaker Charlie Stratton takes a rather obvious approach to Emile Zola's iconic 1867 novel Therese Raquin, ramping up the melodrama while drenching everything in shadowy doom and gloom. It's such a bleak film that it...
Movie Review posted on 15th May 2014
Touchy Feely
After a couple of gimmicky transgressive comedies (Humpday and Your Sister's Sister), writer-director Lynn Shelton takes a more observant approach this time. So even if, as before, the script never quite fills in the gaps...
Movie Review posted on 15th May 2014
Godzilla
For a blockbuster about gigantic radioactive monsters, this is a remarkably humane movie. But then that's no surprise for a film from Gareth Edwards, whose micro-budget Monsters (2010) showed that effects-based movies don't need to...
Movie Review posted on 15th May 2014
Daniel Radcliffe's Method For Choosing Roles? "Would Michael Fassbender Do It?"
With his new film Frank, Michael Fassbender continues to make unusual choices, refusing to take roles that would guarantee him box office success. But he's managing to break the mould by achieving that success anyway.Michael...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th May 2014
A Week In Movies: On Set With The Hunger Games, Howard Hughes And The Lobster; New Trailers For Expendables 3 And Ninja Turtles
In Paris, Jennifer Lawrence was caught on camera as she shot scenes for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 involving a huge crowd of elaborately costumed extras. The hotly anticipated Mockingjay Part 1 opens this...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th May 2014
Nicholas Stoller Looks To Take Judd Apatow's Comedy Crown With 'Neighbors'
With his new film Neighbors (titled Bad Neighbours internationally), filmmaker Nicholas Stoller is taking on Judd Apatow for the adult-comedy title. He has previous experience in the genre, from Forgetting Sarah Marshall to The Five-year...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 9th May 2014
Sabotage
Arnold Schwarzenegger gets one of his most complex roles yet in this messy, violent thriller, another trip to the dark side for filmmaker David Ayer. As in Training Day and End of Watch, Ayer is...
Movie Review posted on 9th May 2014
Frank
While this comedy-drama is sometimes wilfully absurd, it's also exhilarating cinema, telling its story with conflicting amounts of warm emotion and prickly abrasiveness. Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson (What Richard Did) is known for keeping his...
Movie Review posted on 9th May 2014
Before the Winter Chill
Reuniting with filmmaker Philippe Claudel (I've Loved You So Long), Kristin Scott Thomas delivers yet another brittle, understated performance as a woman who isn't always likeable but is hugely sympathetic. But even though the film...
Movie Review posted on 9th May 2014
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Neighbors [Bad Neighbours]
There's a blast of raucous energy to this lively comedy that sets it apart from the pack; aside from a willingness to get deeply rude and incorrect, the movie is actually very funny. It helps...
Movie Review posted on 9th May 2014
The Wind Rises
For what he has said will be his final film, animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki tackles a controversial biopic that could just as easily have been shot in live action. It's as if he's challenging filmmakers...
Movie Review posted on 9th May 2014
Stage Fright
By mashing up so many genres, filmmaker Jerome Sable has made a thoroughly entertaining romp that's impossible to categorise. It may not work fully as a horror thriller, comedy, musical, coming-of-age drama or spoof, but...
Movie Review posted on 8th May 2014
A Week In Movies: Star Wars Cast Announced, Festivals Bring Out Stars In London And New York While Efron And Rogen Hit L.A
Of course the biggest movie news this week was the official announcement that Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher will be back for Star Wars Episode VII, along with the performers behind C-3PO, R2-D2...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd May 2014
Like Non-Stop and Cuban Fury, 'Pompeii' Is Pure Guilty Pleasure Cinema
The release of ancient-Rome disaster epic Pompeii fills an important place in cinema this year: the guilty pleasure. What would moviegoing be like without those films that no one wants to admit that they enjoyed...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd May 2014
A Thousand Times Good Night
Too prickly for mainstream crowds and rather emotionally sentimental for arthouse fans, this drama may have trouble finding an audience. But it's a striking story with a strong personal kick. And it makes a vital...
Movie Review posted on 2nd May 2014
Bad Johnson
The central joke in this low-budget comedy should have been a springboard to something either blackly hilarious or more amusingly complex, but the filmmakers seem to have run out of ideas after coming up with...
Movie Review posted on 2nd May 2014
Next Goal Wins
This documentary about the worst World Cup competitors in history is much more than a football movie: it's an engaging and hugely uplifting exploration of people with real passion for their community. As these underdogs...
Movie Review posted on 2nd May 2014
Tarzan
The 90th film based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, this German-made animated romp adds little to the century-old canon besides some motion-capture action and an eco-friendly message. But it's a watchable adventure with...
Movie Review posted on 2nd May 2014
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
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Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
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