Better known for her role as psychopathic vampire Drusilla in the popular fantasy series Buffy Vampire Slayer, writer-director Juliet Landau delivers a rather disappointing first feature in A Place Among The Dead. The film is part factual, part fiction and purports to be an exploration of the modern cultural obsession with vampires. Landau – daughter of Hollywood legend Martin Landau (Mission: Impossible) and actress Barbara Bain – plays a fictional…
Read MoreReview: The Climb
In The Climb, director Michael Angelo Covino presents a downbeat and deliciously off-kilter comedy which spans years in the life of Mike (Covino) and Kyle (co writer Kyle Marvin), two bickering best friends who fall out over a woman. We first meet Mike and Kyle on the eve of Kyle’s wedding to fiancée Eva (a brief yet memorable turn courtesy of French actor Judith Godrèche). Whilst discussing their enduring friendship,…
Read MoreOne Night In Miami – LFF 2020 Review
After three decades as an actor Regina King’s directorial debut One Night in Miami is a vibrant look at the conflicts and battles that defined the civil rights movement. Adapted from Kemp Powers’ stage play of the same name, the film mostly takes place in an unassuming hotel where four iconic figures meet and discuss how their fame and power can be used to progress the black cause. Malcolm X…
Read MoreNO TIME TO DIE: THE OFFICIAL JAMES BOND PODCAST LAUNCHES
New podcast series featuring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Naomie Harris, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and Billie Eilish No Time To Die: The Official James Bond Podcast features exclusive interviews and unrivalled behind the scenes access to one of the world’s favourite film franchises. Hosted by film critic James King, the six-part series features interviews with Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Naomie Harris, Ana de Armas, Rory Kinnear, Billy Magnussen,…
Read MoreNews: Arrow Video FrightFest cancels October Cineworld Event Midst Growing Covid Restrictions
Arrow Video FrightFest will go virtual for the second time in 2020, having taken the difficult decision to cancel its planned physical event at the Cineworld, Leicester Square. due to continuing COVID restrictions making the event socially, practically and commercially untenable. The digital edition will run over the same days, from Oct 22-25 Oct, and will combine the in-cinema and proposed Halloween digital event into one online festival experience. Ian Rattray,…
Read MoreFanny Lye Deliver’d review
It’s been well over a decade since Brit filmmaker Thomas Clay’s last release. Back in the 2000s, Clay impressed on the film festival circuit with the likes of Soi Cowboy and The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, two disparate films that were as impressively directed as they were hard to watch. By 2016 he was ready to return, writing and directing a story set in 18th century Shropshire, and while…
Read MoreNew Trailer for The Woman In The Window
Staring: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Anthony Mackie, Wyatt Russell In The , a psychological suspense thriller directed by Joe Wright, an agoraphobic child psychologist befriends a neighbour across the street from her New York City brownstone, only to see her own life turned upside down when the woman disappears and she suspects foul play. A stellar ensemble cast brings Tracey Letts’ screenplay based on the gripping, best-selling novel to life, where shocking secrets are…
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