In the first of new series of features, Tom Jolliffe suggests a class-themed double bill of Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and Snowpiercer… The beauty of cinema is how so many films can form a connective strand with others. Sometimes it can be a film-makers penchant for a similar message between a couple of films, or […]
Alien with graphic designer Pete Hambling | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #63
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, graphic designer Pete Hambling discusses the acidic blood of sci-fi horror classic Alien… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, graphic designer Pete Hambling reveals that Ridley Scott’s 70s […]
Movie Review – That Good Night (2017)
That Good Night, 2017. Directed by Eric Styles. Starring John Hurt, Sofia Helin, Max Brown, Erin Richards, and Charles Dance. SYNOPSIS: An aging screenwriter learns that he is terminally ill and seeks to put his life in order before bringing it to an end at a time of his own choosing. Sir John Hurt was […]
Movie Review – Damascus Cover (2018)
Damascus Cover, 2018. Written and Directed by Daniel Zelik Berk. Starring Jonathan Rhys Myers, Olivia Thirlby, Navid Negahban, Jürgen Prochnow, Wolf Kahler, Tsahi Halevi, Igal Naor, Selva Rasalingam, Neta Riskin, Ben Affan, and John Hurt. SYNOPSIS: A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria. The only thing […]
Blu-ray Review – Jake Speed (1986)
Jake Speed, 1986. Directed by Andrew Lane. Starring Wayne Crawford, Dennis Christopher, Karen Kopins, John Hurt, Donna Pescow, and Leon Ames. SYNOPSIS: A woman hires a fictional hero to help find her kidnapped sister. Post-Indiana Jones, the 1980s suddenly filled up with adventure movies featuring a rough-and-ready hero helping out an attractive young woman (who […]
That Good Night set for release in May, featuring John Hurt’s last leading role
Following its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival and screenings at Dinard British Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival, Trafalgar Releasing has announced the May theatrical release of That Good Night, featuring the final leading role from the legendary actor John Hurt. The film sees Hurt as Ralph, a once-famous screenwriter in his seventies […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 1 – Alien (1979)
Alien, 1979. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto and John Hurt. SYNOPSIS: The crew of the cargo ship Nostromo receives a distress signal from a nearby planet and while investigating, one of the crew is attacked by a parasite which implants an embryo […]
First posters and trailer for Darkest Hour starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill
The first trailer and posters have debuted for the upcoming biographical drama Darkest Hour. Directed by Joe Wright, the film stars Gary Oldman as British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill; take a look below… Within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a […]
Movie Review – The Journey (2017)
The Journey, 2017. Directed by Nick Hamm. Starring Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, and John Hurt. SYNOPSIS: A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland – firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness – who are forced to take a short journey […]
Movie Review – The Journey (2016)
The Journey, 2016. Directed by Nick Hamm. Starring Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Toby Stephens, John Hurt and Freddie Highmore. SYNOPSIS: In the middle of the Northern Ireland power sharing discussions of 2006, Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness find themselves sharing a car to the airport. The two are […]