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Win a DVD Copy of Laid In America

YouTube superstar KSI makes his feature film debut alongside Caspar Lee in this laugh-out-loud, chaotic comedy.

Win The Nice Guys on Blu-ray

The worst detectives ever are sucked into the wacky world of the 1970s LA porn industry to hilarious effect in the buddy comedy of the year, THE NICE GUYS, now on Blu-ray, DVD, courtesy of Icon Film Distribution.

Preview: BFI London Film Festival 2016

It’s that time of year again: the 60th BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL Wednesday...

The Melbourne International Film Festival 2016

The Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia has just wrapped up its 65th year, and we were there for part of it to take in the crazy atmosphere, the workshops, lectures and networking of their Accelerator industry program, and of course to see a few films

War Dogs – Hustling For The American Dream featurette

The unbelievable story of a pair of twenty-somethings who land a $300 million deal with the U.S. government comes to cinemas August 26.

The Captain America European Press Conference: What did we learn?

The Avengers reassembled for an 11-man and 2-woman star-studded press conference on Monday afternoon. The cast were, for the most-part, friendly with each other.

Close-Up with… Eric Bana, on Special Correspondents

Laid back (quite literally on a comfy looking sofa) and relaxed, Eric Bana in real life is as far from his new onscreen persona of Frank Bonneville than you could imagine.

Dakota Johnson stars in the short film ‘Vale’

Estrella Damm is proud to present ‘Vale’ a new short film by award winning Alejandro Amenábar (The Others), starring Dakota Johnson (50 Shades of Grey, A Bigger Splash), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones) and Quim Gutiérrez (3 Bodas de más, Primos) that gives a warm-hearted insight into friendship in the Mediterranean, as a group of young people explore the island of Ibiza.

The Boss – Look Inside featurette

Academy Award®-nominated star Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids, The Heat, Tammy) headlines The Boss as a titan of industry who is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.

Less than six weeks since the Oscars – can you remember who won what?

It’s less than six weeks since the Oscars but can you still remember who won what?

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2: The Big Fat Story

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, the long-awaited follow-up to the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. Written by Academy Award® nominee Nia Vardalos.

Oscar Issac’s Best FIlm Roles

Up until mega-blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens you could very well be forgiven for asking, ‘Who is Oscar Isaac?’ Since then it’s more likely to be ‘Where can I see more Oscar Isaac?’

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Magnificent Seven: Cowboys spotted in London

There have been numerous sightings of seven mysterious riders around London this week. First spotted at the dead of night in the Wild West End

Walt Disney Records Release ‘Pete’s Dragon’ Soundtrack

The album features 3 original songs written for the film including “Nobody Knows” performed by the Lumineers, the end credit track “Something Wild” by electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling featuring Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and “The Dragon Song” performed by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.

Trainspotting Live Event At Empire’s Ultimate Film & Entertainment Weekend

EMPIRE, the world’s biggest movie magazine, has unveiled further tantalising programming announcements for the upcoming AMERICAN AIRLINES PRESENTS EMPIRE LIVE, 2016’s ultimate film and entertainment weekend

The Science on Screen series at Barbican

The popular Science on Screen series continues at Barbican Cinemas, exploring the space where science and culture overlap.

Code of Honour Coming To DVD&Digital

ROBERT SIKES and WILLIAM PORTER served together in the US Special Forces in the Middle East. Both were exceptional soldiers, but Sikes went MIA after he received word that his wife and young son were innocent victims of a gangland drive-by shooting. He returns home and massacres a large group of drug dealers who are meeting late at night.

Barbican Film – She’s So Giallo

For roughly eight years, the giallo – this quintessentially Italian genre – stacked up the bodies, scattered red herrings and oozed style before fading away, nearly forgotten by the general public, though later it would inspire the likes of Quentin Tarantino, William Friedkin and Nicholas Winding Refn.

Film4 Summer Screen line-up announced

Somerset Houses’s unmissable outdoor movie season is back in August. Watching a film on the cobbles with a picnic is a practically perfect summer night out.

Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake has won the Palme d’Or

It was the 79-year-old’s second award for best picture at the festival after 2006’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Production of The San Jose Announced

Shipwreck Movie Rights Ltd., in association with Rampage Entertainment and Byron A. Martin Productions, has just acquired the exclusive rights and launched the production of The San Jose, a dramatic feature film about the Spanish galleon San Jose and its $17 billion treasure.

Alice Through The Looking Glass – European Premiere

In Disney’s “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.

London Film Festival Continues Collaboration

Following a successful six year collaboration, the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) and American Express announce a continuation of their partnership, which will see American Express remain as Principal Sponsor and Preferred Payment Partner.

MORNING AFTER A Funny and Provocative New Drama

Flirt Films announces the production of Morning After, a bold and playful...

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The Girl with All the Gifts (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Like the 2006 film “The Children of Men”, this “dystopian future” film features a world where the future of humanity is in the hands of one young girl. Only in this case she is a flesh eating zombie.

Imperium (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Radcliffe plays Nate, an intelligence analyst with the FBI, who is sent undercover in middle America to foil a white supremacist terrorist plot. Collette is Angela, FBI case agent and his control and contact in the bureau.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (12A) | Close-Up Film Review

It’s the end of the line for chubby troubled Maori teen Ricky (Julian Dennison), who has been dragged to a ramshackle farm right out in the New Zealand bush by grimly determined social worker Paula (Rachel House).

Two Women (U) | Close-Up Film Review

The story concerns Natalya Petrovna (Vartanyan), the bored wife of a rich landowner, and her husband’s friend Rakitin (Fiennes), who has been in love with her for years, whose attentions she enjoys but will never allow the relationship to develop beyond a flirtation.

Anthropoid (15) | Close-Up Film Review

The film is set in World War II and the title refers to the code name of the London-based Czechoslovakian government-in-exile’s plan to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, otherwise known as the Butcher of Prague

Ben Hur (12A) | Close-Up Film Review

Various film versions have been made of Lew Wallace’s novel “Ben Hur”, with the best known being the 1925 silent movie and 1959 one with Charlton Heston in the title role. Apart from clips on television, I have never seen any so them so I come to director Timur Bekmambetov’s film with an open mind.

Captain Fantastic (15) | Close-Up Film Review

I didn’t expect this at all! Believing I was going to a family film, I thought I would see a gushing, sentimental, father alone bringing up his children movie.

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (15) | Close-Up Film Review

Based on the novel by British writer Liz Jensen, this psychological thriller has an interesting premise and a good cast. Much of it happens inside the head of the eponymous Louis (Longworth), a nine year old boy with a remarkable, accident prone history.

Sausage Party (15) | Close-Up Film Review

It’s another wonderful day at the supermarket, and the products on the shelves are singing away – maybe today will be the wonderful moment when they’re finally chosen to be taken through the automatic doors to the “promised land.”

From the Melbourne Film Festival: The Family

With the Manson Family still regularly in the news and often fictionalized on our screens (August 9 was the 47th anniversary of the shocking murders), it’s inevitable that people will be drawn to this new documentary about another cult utilizing the same moniker.

From the Melbourne Film Festival: Mahana

1960s New Zealand and Grandfather (Morrison) is the patriarch of the Mahana family. He rules with an iron fist, but there’s no velvet glove underneath.

From the Melbourne Film Festival: Kedi

Instanbul has been in the spotlight recently – for all the wrong reasons – so it’s refreshing to watch this short and sweet Turkish-language documentary about the furry symbols of the capital city.

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Visions (15) | Home Ents Review

Blumhouse productions are known for their low budget, big box office horrors. Having previously made such chillers as Insidious and Paranormal Activity, what will this new Polish production about haunting foresight bring them?

Gilda (PG) | Home Ents Review

Charles Vidor’s enthralling film-noir Gilda, featuring a career-defining performance from Rita Hayworth at the heart of a tempestuous love triangle, has finally been released on Blu-Ray for the first time in the UK.

Bone Tomahawk (18) | Home Ents Review

Stephen Spielberg was recently quoted as saying ‘there will be a time when the superhero movie goes the way of the Western’. Well if ‘Bone Tomahawk’ is an indication of the way of the Western, then the superhero movie going that way is fine by me.

Here Comes Mr Jordan (U) | Home Ents Review

Nestling in a unique space somewhere between Harvey and It’s a Wonderful Life, Here Comes Mr. Jordan tells the fascinating tale of a boxer, Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery), who is taken to the afterlife following a near-fatal plane crash whilst flying solo on his way to fight for the title.

Dissent & Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (18) | Home Ents Review

The chances are that you cannot name a single director of tv dramas from what are often called the golden years of British tv. If you can, the name on your lips is probaby Alan Clarke – whose astonishing body of work from 20 years at the BBC has now been released in two formats: a sumptuous 13 disc Blu-ray box set and two 6 discs DVD sets.

Stuff and Dough (12) | Home Ents Review

Stuff and Dough is a masterclass in fresh film-making, resonating with several genres to great effect (disaffected youth, grimy realism, thriller) to create something unique yet wonderfully familiar; while keeping up a sprightly, light tone throughout. Now, you definitely can’t say the latter about Puiu’s follow-up films.

Scott of the Antarctic (PG) |Home Ents Review

Studio Canal’s Vintage Classic series brings us yet another treat with this lovingly restored edition of “Scott of the Antarctic”. Jack Cardiff’s cinematography hardly needs my endorsement but the painstaking restoration work by the team at Pinewood Studios really shows. The image is pin-sharp with none of that slight fringing we’re accustomed to seeing in unrestored early Technicolor films

Journey to the Shore (12) | Home Ents Review

There is no shortage of films about love carrying on into the afterlife. On one end of the spectrum you’ve got films like ‘Ghost’, on the other is the likes of ‘Truly Madly Deeply’. From Japanese writer/director Kiyoshi Kirosawa comes the latest addition to the ghost romance genre.

Our Little Sister (PG) | Home Ents Review

Sachi (Haruka Ayase), Yoshino (Masami Nagasawa) and Chika (Kaho) are three sisters who live a seemingly idyllic life in their family home. When they hear that their father, a man absent for many years, has died and that he had a teenage daughter, Suzu (Suzu Hirose), from another relationship, they attend his funeral and meet Suzu