“Movies… For Free!”, showcasing classic movies that have fallen out of copyright and are available freely from the public domain. This week… Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 1936. Directed by George King. Starring Tod Slaughter and Stella Rho. Britain’s answer to Hollywood horror icons such as Bela Lugosi, celebrated screen villain Tod […]

Tom Conran with his thoughts on an early screening in Sheffield and Q&A with Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine and Mark Herbert… Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (2009). Directed by Shane Meadows. Starring Paddy Considine, Dean Palinczuk and Olivia Coleman. Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine reunite for the first time since Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) in this […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Peter Jackson in the second of a two-part feature… read the first part here. Peter Jackson decided to pursue his dream of producing a fantasy film as his follow-up project. Lacking major studio support to remake King Kong, the director chose to adapt a literary masterpiece. J.R.R. Tolkien’s […]

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 9th – Sunday 11th October 2009. Disney Pixar continue their fabulous run as Up jumps straight into the chart in first position with a hefty weekend haul of £6.4m. The biggest UK opening since July’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince includes a […]

Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios have offically released the trailer for next year’s sure-fire smash hit Toy Story 3, which sees the return of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen as Woody and Buzz Lightyear. Slated for release in the UK on July 23rd (or June 18th for those across the pond), the third […]

In which Gerry Hayes keeps looking around to see if John Cleese is going to pop up in a white coat, offering a titanium codpiece with a built in iPod and lemon-zester. Quantum Of Solace, 2008. Directed by Marc Forster. Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini. Written by Paul Haggis, […]

“Movies… For Free!”, showcasing classic movies that have fallen out of copyright and are available freely from the public domain. This week… Bronyenosyets Potyomkin (English: The Battleship Potemkin), 1925. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Starring Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky and Grigori Alexsandrov. The Battleship Potemkin is a revolutionary propagandist film from Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, with […]

Continuing our series of articles examining the various screen incarnations of George Lucas’ Star Wars saga, we turn our attention to the filmmaker’s first television movie, The Ewok Adventure… Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, 1984. Directed by John Korty. Starring Eric Walker, Warwick Davis and Aubree Miller. SYNOPSIS: When the Towani family starcruiser crashes […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Peter Jackson in the first of a two-part feature… “I grew up in a little town in New Zealand at the bottom of the North Island called Pukerua Bay,” revealed Peter Jackson when reflecting upon the coastal community of his youth. “There’s stone caves inside the mountains. There’s […]

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th October 2009. There were signs of a recovery at the UK box office this past weekend with four films managing to cross the £1m mark for the first time since August. Despite strong competition from Ricky Gervais’ latest Hollywood […]