Our writer Harrison Abbott talks about his attendance at the David Fincher BAFTA event, celebrating the director’s career in the pictures with the participation of Fincher himself.
Our writers discuss the various adaptations of vampires across television and cinema from Being Human’s John Mitchell to Twilight’s Edward Cullen all the way back to 1922’s Nosferatu’s Graf Orlok.
“To a degree the film might have been more successful had it focused less on the bland human characters and more on the turtles themselves.” Harrison reviews the adaptation of one of the biggest children’s franchises.
“In fact the viewer is so traumatised by the tumultuous roller coaster that it is hard to do more than shake in unfathomable frustration.” Sam Claflin and Lily Collins star in Love Rosie.
The Edge’s film writers take a look at the film characters that gave them the worst nightmares.
“Unfortunately, the talents of Cooper and Lawrence can’t even save this disaster from the depths of futile filmmaking.” Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence team up again for Serena.
“Instead of embracing his and the film’s national identity further, first-time filmmaker Zee Ntuli has made just another vapid Hollywood clone.” In more of our London Film Festival coverage, Ben Robins takes a look at Hard to Get.
The Academy Award-nominated film starring Carey Mulligan was released five years ago today.
Tim Burton’s tale of Jack the Pumpkin King was released in the US on 29th October 1993.
The upcoming homage to the iconic children’s books will be released 28th November.
So, mankind has been overrun with apes and machines in Transformers: Age of Extinction and both Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. We’ve also shown Inception as part of our Throwback Thursdays, and our classic Phoenix film of Ilo Ilo. I think it’s time now for us…
This week sees the release of Horns, Nightcrawler and the winner of Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival, CITIZENFOUR.
” Although true to his source material and glazed with his own unique brand of contentious comedy, Stewart’s debut is a largely mismatched attempt at something really quite different.” Ben Robbins looks at John Stewart’s first feature film.
“Regardless of his arguably over-eager approach, Daniel Barber’s The Keeping Room is an incredibly well-crafted update of the classic American western” – Our London Film Festival critic takes a look at The Keeping Room, staring Sam Worthington, Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling.