Paul Risker chats with Sophie Lellouche, writer-director of Paris-Manhattan…The film chosen to open this year’s 16th UK Jewish Film Festival was the romantic comedy Paris-Manhattan, the directorial feature debut of young French writer-director Sophie Lellouche. It is an eventful first attempt at a feature film, the screenplay written over a long seven year stretch, at […]

Paris-Manhattan, 2012. Directed by Sophie Lellouche.Starring Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel, Marine Delterme, Michel Aumont and Woody Allen. SYNOPSIS: Local Pharmacist Alice (Alice Taglioni) is struggling to find someone who can live up to the image of her ideal man: Woody Allen. Surrounded by relationship dramas and obsessed with the films of Woody Allen, can new […]

The news broke last Friday that writer/director Kevin Smith’s last movie will be Clerks III – ending off his career with the movie he began it with. From all accounts, the news broke a little earlier than planned, although Smith did reveal some more details about the film’s production and plans on the latest episode […]

The Rocketeer follows the high-flying adventures of ace stunt pilot Cliff Secord after he finds a mysterious jetpack and takes to the skies. On his action-packed adventures, Cliff must navigate the treacherous waters of maintaining a relationship with his knock-out girlfriend Betty, while continuing to battle evil and injustice – no easy feat! The first […]

Paul Risker chats with Sophie Solomon, Artistic Director of the Jewish Music Institute… Violinist, composer, songwriter, and Artistic Director Sophie Solomon arrived at this year’s UKJFF to perform a live musical accompaniment to the 1925 silent film His People. She has played an important role in the collaboration between the two artistic organisations, which made […]

From the moment it was announced that J.J. Abrams was to direct a follow-up to his 2009 sci-fi pseudo-reboot Star Trek there’s been a tonne of speculation over the identity of the film’s villain, with things really intensifying over the past few days as Paramount Pictures debuted a teaser trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness […]

Over the past few days we’ve had our first glimpse at two of next year’s big science fiction offerings in Star Trek Into Darkness and Oblivion and now we can add a third to that list, with the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s sci-fi thriller After Earth surfacing online today via MSN.Shyamalan hasn’t been […]

The Flickering Myth writing team discuss the first teaser trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness…The internet came to a standstill last Thursday as Paramount Pictures presented us with the first footage from Star Trek Into Darkness with the release of an online exclusive teaser trailer that gave us a glimpse at what’s in store when director […]

YouTuber SleepySkunk has edited together a rather wonderful mashup of movie trailers from 2012. By 2012 in movies, this isn’t what we mean. It goes through three parts – the horror/action movie build (Resident Evil: Retribution, Prometheus, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), the comedy hijinks (Project X, Wreck-It Ralph, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie) and […]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012.Directed by Peter Jackson.Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Andy Serkis, Christopher Lee, Sylvester McCoy, Barry Humphries, Lee Pace, Ken Stott, Graham McTavish, William Kircher, James Nesbitt, Stephen Hunter, Dean O’Gorman, Aidan Turner, John Callen, Peter Hambleton, Jed Brophy, Mark Hadlow, […]