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Was 2017 Really A Record Year For British Cinema?

February 4, 2018 by Neil Calloway

Neil Calloway isn’t convinced by the BFI’s claims about the British film industry… This week saw the release of the British Film Institute’s official statistics for 2017. As ever with these sort of things, it was a record-breaking year for British film. More people went to the cinema in the UK in 2017 than in […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Neil Calloway Tagged With: Beauty and the Beat, Paddington 2, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, T2 Trainspotting, Their Finest

Exclusive Interview – Screenwriter Gaby Chiappe on Their Finest

April 19, 2017 by Freda Cooper

Set during the days after The Blitz during World War II, Their Finest follows the writers and film makers working for The Ministry Of Information, with one aim in mind – to raise public morale.  The film’s screenwriter, Gaby Chiappe, talked to Flickering Myth’s Freda Cooper about making the move from writing for TV to […]

Filed Under: Exclusives, Freda Cooper, Interviews, Movies Tagged With: EastEnders, Gaby Chiappe, Lissa Evans, Shetland, Their Finest, their finest hour and a half, Vera

Why Are There So Many British War Films Being Made?

April 9, 2017 by Neil Calloway

Neil Calloway looks at the rise in British World War II movies… This week brought the news that Ridley Scott would be directing a film set during the Battle of Britain. It’s a surprise he hasn’t done it before; he was born two years before war was declared and his father was a career officer […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Neil Calloway Tagged With: Churchill, Dunkirk, Their Finest

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Their Finest (2016)

October 15, 2016 by Freda Cooper

Their Finest, 2016. Directed by Lone Scherfig. Starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston, Richard E Grant, Eddie Marsan, Jake Lacy and Helen McCrory. SYNOPSIS: In the days after The Blitz in World War II, The Ministry Of Information recruits copywriter Catrin (Gemma Arterton) to work on scripts and give their propaganda films […]

Filed Under: Freda Cooper, London Film Festival, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: 60th BFI London FIlm Festival, Bill Nighy, Eddie Marsan, Gemma Arterton, Helen McCrory, Jake Lacy, Jeremy Irons, Lone Scherfig, Richard E. Grant, Sam Claflin, Their Finest

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