Tom Jolliffe on the return of the Western… Cinema runs in cycles. A genre may have its run and then have a lull of 10-20 years where audiences aren’t really interested. In the 30’s and 40’s you couldn’t move for gangster films. In the 50’s it was epics and the 60’s there was a huge […]
Rogue’s Gallery: Star Wars actor Ben Mendelsohn’s greatest villains
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story imminent, Sean Wilson explores the litany of memorable bad guys from Orson Krennic actor Ben Mendelsohn… There are many reasons to be intergalactically excited about the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, not least because it will reveal the events leading up to Darth Vader’s majestic […]
Giveaway – Win Slow West starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee – NOW CLOSED
To celebrate the release of Slow West – on DVD & Blu-ray from 2nd November 2015 – we have a copy on DVD to giveaway courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Slow West is deconstructed western that explores love, death and civilization as outlaw Silas (Michael Fassbender) and his companion Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee) travel America in […]
Overlooked Summer Gems of 2015
Matthew Lee on the overlooked summer gems of 2015… As the summer season officially draws to a close, which, for most studios, means an end to the blockbuster bonanza (though, once again, Warner Bros. are going against the grain as they release Pan in October. Didn’t Jupiter Ascending’s reception teach them anything?). During this cluster […]
Minions topples Jurassic World with biggest ever UK opening for an animated film
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 26th June to Sunday 28th June 2015… Universal Pictures continued its stellar box office run this past weekend with the release of the Despicable Me spinoff Minions, which dethroned Jurassic World at the top of the UK chart with a solid opening […]
Movie Review – Slow West (2015)
Slow West, 2015. Written and Directed by John Maclean. Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren Pistorius, Rory McCann and Stewart Bowman. SYNOPSIS: A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as guide. The western film is […]
Sneak peek TV spot for Slow West starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee
Ahead of its UK release later this month, Lionsgate has debuted a new sneak peek TV spot for Slow West, director John Mclean’s western starring Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes). Check it out below… SEE ALSO: Read our review of Slow West here […]
Movie Review – Slow West (2015)
Slow West. 2015 Directed by John Maclean Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn, Rory McCann, and Caren Pistorius SYNOPSIS: A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide. Slow West is a methodically paced Western […]
Slow West Blu-ray details announced
Lionsgate Home Entertainment and A24 have announced the official details for the critcally-acclaimed western Slow West, starring Michael Fassbender (Shame), Kodi Smit-McPhee (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Ben Mendelsohn (Lost River), which is set for release in the USA on July 7th. PRE-ORDER SLOW WEST VIA AMAZON US In search of his fugitive girlfriend and her father, […]
UK poster and trailer for Slow West starring Michael Fassbender and Kodi Smit-McPhee
Ahead of its release next month, a UK poster and trailer have arrived online for Slow West, the upcoming Western drama starring Michael Fassbender and his X-Men: Apocalypse co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee; check them out here… SLOW WEST follows the story of 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Smit-McPhee) as he journeys across the American frontier at the end […]