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Magic Mike
A film about male strippers promises Showgirls (or at least Burlesque) levels of camp guilty-pleasure fun for female and gay-male audiences. But look again, because the trailers are misleading. This is a Steven Soderbergh film,...
Movie Review posted on 5th July 2012
The Players
A series of short films and comedy sketches about male infidelity, this French film is often hilariously over-the-top in its farcical excesses. But it's also packed with moments of raw honesty as men grapple with...
Movie Review posted on 5th July 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: Frankenweenie, Anna Karenina, Magic Mike, Dead Man Down, Joyful Noise & much more
With Wimbledon and Euro2012 still holding everyone's attention, UK film distributors are avoiding releasing big movies. But this week's selection is a pretty good bunch of non-blockbusters, including the Bridesmaids reunion movie Friends With Kids,...
Review posted on 29th June 2012
Killer Joe
This film's unhinged plot constantly catches us off guard with its bizarre twists and turns, all of which are grounded on the hapless characters. But despite strong filmmaking, it feels like we're watching a play,...
Movie Review posted on 29th June 2012
Your Sister's Sister
As with Humpday, writer-director Shelton plays around with transgressive sexuality in this lively, watchable comedy-drama. The problem is that instead of dissipating, the underlying sense of homophobia is aggressively offensive this time.A year after his...
Movie Review posted on 29th June 2012
Dark Horse
Solondz takes another hilariously pitch-black exploration of human behaviour with a film populated by excellent actors playing seriously messed-up characters. And it can't help but force us to look at how we interact with people...
Movie Review posted on 29th June 2012
Friends With Kids
With a hilariously smart script and a terrific cast, this romantic comedy rises far above the pack, engaging us emotionally and intellectually while offering some telling observations on the state of modern relationships.Jason (Scott) and...
Movie Review posted on 29th June 2012
Joyful Noise
Life-affirming to the point of distraction, this comedy is so warm and cosy that it never even approaches believability. If only writer-director Graff had injected the film with half as much earthy energy as he...
Movie Review posted on 29th June 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: The Amazing Spider-man, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Beasts of the Southern Wild & much more
This week's big Leicester Square premiere was for the franchise reboot of The Amazing Spider-man, which saw stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans greeting fans and paparazzi on the red carpet under a...
Review posted on 22nd June 2012
Under African Skies
This beautifully assembled documentary traces the creation of Paul Simon's seminal 1986 album Graceland, focussing on the political controversy the recording sessions sparked because South Africa was under a cultural boycott at the time. It's...
Movie Review posted on 21st June 2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
A riotous combination of rah-rah American patriotism and overwrought special effects nonsense, this cheeky bit of fantasy history is rather good fun. Yes, it's also completely ridiculous, but the visual flair and fast pace keep...
Movie Review posted on 21st June 2012
The Five-Year Engagement
Segel and Stoller repeat their duties from 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall and come up with another hilarious romantic-comedy for grown-ups. It's corny, but it keeps us laughing all the way through while stirring in some...
Movie Review posted on 21st June 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: Tom Cruise, Cosmopolis, Django Unchained, Oliver Stone's Savages, Chris Pine & much more
Tom Cruise seems to be everywhere at the moment, as his new film Rock of Ages has just opened all over the world, prompting him to indulge in rather a lot of rock-star antics on...
Review posted on 15th June 2012
A Thousand Kisses Deep
A mopey tone and hole-ridden plot make this romantic drama rather difficult to sit through. Even though the premise has hints of Charlie Kaufman cleverness, nothing is developed properly, and none of the characters ever...
Movie Review posted on 14th June 2012
Fast Girls
Lively dialog and realistically played characters help make this sporting drama engaging despite a formulaic screenplay. And even if it's rather corny, the film could be genuinely inspiring to young athletes in an Olympic year.Gifted...
Movie Review posted on 14th June 2012
A Royal Affair
With striking photography, sumptuous production values and strong acting, this Danish epic tells a remarkable true story about a tumultuous moment in European history. It's a fascinating, involving story, although the film is a bit...
Movie Review posted on 14th June 2012
Polisse
With a strong blast of real-life, this sprawling film explores the Paris child protection unit from every conceivable angle. Shot like a fly-on-the-wall documentary, the actors and situations are so authentic that it's often uncomfortable...
Movie Review posted on 14th June 2012
Rock of Ages
This raucous trawl through 80s power ballads, rock anthems and gigantic hair is a lot of fun, partly because it throws so many big stars into against-type roles in which they get to sing and...
Movie Review posted on 14th June 2012
Cosmopolis
Artful, intelligent and wilfully obtuse, Cronenberg uses his skill to hold our interest through this oddity of a film. But it's difficult to engage with such fragmented film, especially when its big themes are hidden...
Movie Review posted on 14th June 2012
A Week In Movies featuring: Fantastic Fear of Everything, Ill Manors, Michael Fassbender, Fast Girls, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, The Bourne Legacy and much more.
With blockbusters like Prometheus and Snow White and the Huntsman dominating the box office, UK distributors have opted to sneak-release several smaller films this weekend, including two British indies: Ben Drew's East End multi-strand drama...
Review posted on 8th June 2012
Red Tails
An inspiring true story from American military history provides plenty of drama and adventure, even if the over-earnest approach makes it seem rather silly at times. If it weren't for the engaging cast and thrilling...
Movie Review posted on 7th June 2012
A Fantastic Fear Of Everything
Strikingly designed and directed, this offbeat film feels like a one-man stage show as the entire story's told through an internal monolog. So while we enjoy the witty, skilled acting and filmmaking, we never really...
Movie Review posted on 7th June 2012
Ill Manors
Musician Ben Drew (aka Plan B) shows impressive skill in his filmmaking debut, even if he's chosen a badly overworked genre. So no matter how stylish the film is, the lack of a central plot...
Movie Review posted on 7th June 2012
A Week In Movies Featuring: Ill Manors, Prometheus, Cosmopolis, Katy Perry: Part of Me, Won't Back Down and More
This week saw the reopening of London's premiere movie space, Leicester Square, after a major two-year renovation. And the square was used for film events all week, starting with the world premiere of Ill Manors,...
Review posted on 1st June 2012
Top Cat: The Movie
Produced in Mexico and Argentina because of Latin America's obsession with Don Gato, this revival of the Hanna Barbera cartoon maintains the wacky tone even if there's nothing clever or particularly skilled in the script...
Movie Review posted on 31st May 2012
Prometheus
There are clear echoes of Scott's last outer space thriller (1979's Alien) in this big, bold film, but this is something very different. It's certainly not a clear prequel. And even if the plot is...
Movie Review posted on 31st May 2012
Snow White and the Huntsman
There's an oddly over-serious tone to this fairy tale, as if the filmmakers thought they were making a massive action epic on par with The Lord of the Rings. But the plot has all the...
Movie Review posted on 31st May 2012
Free Men
In German-occupied Paris, Younes (Rahim) is a young Algerian who sells black-market goods to North African immigrants. When he's arrested, the cops offer him freedom if he agrees to spy on a local mosque leader...
Movie Review posted on 31st May 2012
A Week In Movies Featuring: James Bond, Anchorman, Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby, Cannes Festival Hots Up, Will Smith Slap-Gate And More
The biggest news of the week was our first glimpse of the new James Bond film, as a teaser trailer for Skyfall was released online and in cinemas on Monday. It's a belter of a...
Review posted on 25th May 2012
The Dictator
This may look like a wildly irreverent satire about a North African despot, but it doesn't take long to realise that the filmmakers' target is somewhere else. And the biting script never pulls its punches,...
Movie Review posted on 25th May 2012
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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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![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...
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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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