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Bachelorette
It's easy to see this comical romp as Bridesmaids meets The Hangover, but there's a bit more to it than that. It's a genuinely silly film with a rather simple plot, as three women try...
Movie Review posted on 7th September 2012
The Queen of Versailles
Documentaries are rarely as hilarious as this one. Well, the first half of it at least, as filmmaker Greenfield proves to have a wonderful eye for absurdity as she explores the life of the ludicrously...
Movie Review posted on 7th September 2012
Shut Up and Play the Hits
On 2 April 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its last gig at Madison Square Garden in New York. It was an extravagant four-hour concert that fans didn't want to see come to an end. But even...
Movie Review posted on 7th September 2012
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy's iconic novel may have been filmed several times, but you've never seen a version like this. Clever writer Tom Stoppard and visually whizzy director Joe Wright combine talents with this ambitious film, which sets...
Movie Review posted on 7th September 2012
Dredd
If you can still remember Sylvester Stallone's ridiculous 1995 sci-fi action romp Judge Dredd, don't worry. This is not a remake. It's a film actually based on the graphic novels themselves, so it has a...
Movie Review posted on 7th September 2012
A Week In Movies Featuring: Naomi Watts & Ewan McGregor in The Impossible, Gerard Butler getting his surf on, Matthew McConaughey's gaunt new look and much more!
The Venice Film Festival kicked off this week with the world premiere of Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring Riz Ahmed as a Pakistani living in America when the 9/11 attacks change his life forever....
Review posted on 31st August 2012
Total Recall
Audiences weren't exactly clamouring for a remake of that 1990 sci-fi hit starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, but here we are. The filmmakers promised to return more closely to Philip K. Dick's original story,...
Movie Review posted on 31st August 2012
A Few Best Men
Anyone who has seen either film version of Craig's previous script Death at a Funeral will immediately recognise the approach: madcap chaos at a family rite of passage. For a late-night screening when you definitely...
Movie Review posted on 31st August 2012
Cockneys Vs Zombies
It's impossible for this film to escape comparisons with Shaun of the Dead, another witty zombie comedy set in London. Although this one transfers the action from North London to the East End, where the...
Movie Review posted on 31st August 2012
Samsara
Filmmakers Fricke and Magidson take their time making movies: their last film was 1992's Baraka. Over the next decade, they travelled around the world with a 70mm camera shooting scenes on every continent. Compiled together...
Movie Review posted on 31st August 2012
Lawless
Director Hillcoat and musician-turned-screenwriter Cave previously worked together back home in Australia on the dark Western The Proposition, and now they have reunited in America for this true story set during Prohibition in the early...
Movie Review posted on 31st August 2012
A Week In Movies Featuring: lawless, The Last Stand, Stolen, Maleficent And Much More!
After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, the bootlegging thriller Lawless has been building anticipation, especially as stars Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman did the press tour for The Dark Knight Rises. The film also...
Review posted on 24th August 2012
The Watch
You'd think that a film written by Stern (the surprisingly witty Mr Popper's Penguins) and Rogen/Goldberg (the hilarious Superbad and Pineapple Express) and starring a reliably funny cast would be a safe bet for a...
Movie Review posted on 24th August 2012
The Imposter
Over the past couple of years British filmmakers have found all kinds of ways to breathe new life into the documentary format, from Clio Barnard merging life and art in The Arbor to Carol Morley's...
Movie Review posted on 24th August 2012
Circumstance
This provocative drama was far too hot to allow it to be made in Tehran, where the story is set. So filmmaker Keshavarz instead shot it in Lebanon, which gave her the freedom to explore...
Movie Review posted on 24th August 2012
Shadow Dancer
Like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, this thriller refuses to burst out into action mode, preferring to keep its thrills cerebral as the characters circle around each other like sharks. It's a fiercely complex, intelligent film...
Movie Review posted on 24th August 2012
The Three Stooges
The Farrelly brothers return to the vacuously silly style of Dumb and Dumber for this gently idiotic comedy that recreates the iconic knucklehead trio that epitomised movie slapstick from the 1930s to the 1970s. Intriguingly,...
Movie Review posted on 24th August 2012
Berberian Sound Studio
Fiendishly clever British filmmaker Peter Strickland (see Katalin Varga) offers a treat to movie geeks with this clever behind-the-scenes blending of comedy, drama and horror. It's so finely observed that it can't help but get...
Movie Review posted on 24th August 2012
A Week In Movies Featuring: Cosmopolis, The Expendables 2, Sparkle, On the Road And Much More!
With the Olympics over, there has been a real glut of movie premieres this week. In New York on Monday, Robert Pattinson emerged following his break-up with Kristen Stewart to hit the press trail for...
Review posted on 17th August 2012
The Devil's Business
Essentially a two-hander, this slow-burning horror film contains some strongly unsettling moments. But while the characters are engaging, the writing and directing feel simplistic in their approach both to them and to the escalating freak-out.The...
Movie Review posted on 16th August 2012
Brave
Pixar continues pushing boundaries with this lavishly animated Scottish adventure, which centres on an involving mother-daughter relationship. The characters are wonderfully vivid, even if the film never quite achieves the transcendence of its nearest Pixar...
Movie Review posted on 16th August 2012
Take This Waltz
After the remarkable Away From Her, actress-turned-filmmaker Polley is back with another bracingly observant drama, this time exploring the point where relationships cease to be something new. The film is a bit indulgent and downbeat,...
Movie Review posted on 16th August 2012
The Bourne Legacy
Writer Gilroy adds directing to his Bourne chores, shifting the franchise into a cerebral thriller punctuated by plodding action sequences. It's watchable, but doesn't have enough sense of character or purpose to make us care...
Movie Review posted on 16th August 2012
The Expendables 2
Although there's been no attempt to tone down the first film's bloodthirsty hyperviolence or dim-witted plotting, this sequel is a massive improvement simply because they have fun with the premise. As a result, so do...
Movie Review posted on 16th August 2012
In the Dark Half
Moody and atmospheric, this low-budget British thriller gets under the skin as it explores the complex emotional life of a teen girl. And even if it's both elusive and overwrought, the film's eerie tone holds...
Movie Review posted on 16th August 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: Jennifer Lawrence, Jude Law, Kristen Stewart, Lindsay Lohan, Bradley Cooper, Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy and Much More.
It's another relatively quiet week in cinemas, as distributors continue to avoid the Olympics, although The Bourne Legacy is poised to pounce worldwide on Monday (with an advance release this weekend in America). Otherwise,...
Review posted on 10th August 2012
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Hitchcock's third feature established his name. Indeed, he regarded it as his first true accomplishment, setting the tone for the career that followed. It also stands up as an inventive mystery-thriller that's both scary and...
Movie Review posted on 10th August 2012
The Dinosaur Project
There needs to be a moratorium on that lame found footage prologue text, which insists that the images haven't been tampered with, leaving audiences rolling their eyes long before anything outrageous appears on screen. Otherwise,...
Movie Review posted on 10th August 2012
Offender
It's clear that director Scalpello and writer Van Carter were trying to do something unusual here, but those standard prison movies cliches prove that they're just too difficult to resist. And this leaves the film's...
Movie Review posted on 10th August 2012
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Step Up Revolution [Step Up: Miami Heat]
The Step Up franchise has never been noted for its astute screenwriting, but this instalment sets the bar so low that even its bendy cast members would have trouble limboing under it. Even so, the...
Movie Review posted on 10th August 2012
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
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Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![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]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "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]")
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]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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