Surprising many people, The Conjuring spin-off/prequel Annabelle was a box office success over the weekend despite poor reviews from the majority of critics (read our review here). But the possessed doll is not just on the minds of those who have watched it, as it also has grabbed the attention of Don Mancini, the creator of […]

The winning films in all twelve categories were announced at the Raindance Film Festival awards ceremony this Saturday, just as the festival drew to a close this weekend. With record-breaking attendance and a vast number of submissions, of which 100 feature films and 176 shorts were screened at this year’s festival, it seems to be […]

300: Rise of an Empire (2014) Directed by Noam Murro Starring Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey, David Wenham, Rodrigo Santoro SYNOPSIS: Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. Eight years after the Spartans raised hell […]

The Beat Beneath My Feet, 2014. Directed by John Williams. Starring Luke Perry, Nicholas Galitzine, Lisa Dillon, Verity Pinter, James Tarpey, Simon Lowe. SYNOPSIS: A boy receives guitar lessons from a washed-up rock god living in the council flat below his, keeping it a secret from his God-fearing mother and the bullies that torment him […]

The US Box Office Report for week commencing 3rd October 2014… It was a fiercely fought competition over the weekend between the big budget thriller Gone Girl and the low budget horror Annabelle, with the latter seemingly on point to take the number one spot. But it was Fincher’s adaptation that eventually topped the chart in […]

Neil Calloway begins his new weekly column looking at the state of ‘British’ cinema in 2014… According to a report in The Sunday Times, UK cinema audiences were down 8% on last year this summer, with only The Inbetweeners 2 and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (both sequels AND based on material from elsewhere) […]

Kat Kourbeti chats with writer-director Jane Spencer about The Ninth Cloud… This year’s Raindance Film Festival has marked the return of fantastic independent cinema, with projects spanning all categories from documentaries and shorts to feature films from all over the world. We got to chat with writer-director of The Ninth Cloud, Jane Spencer, about her […]

Excuse My French, 2014 Written and directed by Amir Salama Starring Ahmed Dash, Hani Adel, Kinda Allouch, Ahmed Helmy   SYNOPSIS: A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he’s a Muslim. There is a lot to be said for […]

Bypass, 2014 Written and directed by Duane Hopkins Starring George MacKay, Benjamin Dilloway, Charlotte Spencer, Lara Peake, Matt Cross SYNOPSIS: Tim is a good kid. Tim is a criminal. Duane Hopkin’s Bypass is one of those movies that displays a “slice of real life”. Nothing in the movie is manufactured to fit film standards, plot threads […]

The Ninth Cloud, 2014. Starring Michael Madsen, Megan Maczko, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Sabina Akhmedova, Leo Gregory, Wendy Thomas, Elana Krausz, Julia Verdin, Meredith Ostrom. SYNOPSIS: A dreamer named Zena (Megan Maczko) clings onto her idealistic views of philosophy, art, poetry and love as she makes her life in 1990s London, running away from her painful past. […]