Jameson Empire Awards 2012: The Results

Celebrating their 17th year at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, Empire magazine’s annual awards ceremony took place last night before a star-studded crowd, which included Dexter Fletcher, Hayley Atwell and Danny DeVito. Appropriately for the first day of English Summertime, London’s...

March 26th, 2012 | Feature, News | Read More

The Birds (1963)

Based on the story by Daphne Du Maurier, The Birds introduces Tippi Hedren as another of Hitchcock’s blond leading ladies. She plays Melanie Daniels, a rich, confident young woman who starts the film in a pet shop buying a bird and ends it never wanting to see a bird again, after a traumatising series...

March 25th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Kid with the Bike (2011)

An 11-year-old on the edge In The Kid with a Bike/Le gamin au vélo the Dardenne brothers are on strong familiar ground depicting a troubled boy struggling to get attention from his derelict, immature dad and tempted to a life of crime by an older boy who exploits him. The actor who plays the boy is...

March 24th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Hunger Games: Flickfeast Debates

Julio Kukanja and Olly Buxton both attended The Hunger Games as twin-critics from flickfeast – a sort of left/right combination to the solar plexus aimed at giving you, the reader, a genuinely stereoscopic view of the film. They took that to some extremes as they failed to meet up before the screening...

March 22nd, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

The Hunger Games (2012)

Lionsgate’s Easter blockbuster is a lengthy, high-octane dramatisation of The Hunger Games, a “young adult” novel by Suzanne Collins. It is the first in a series about which I’d heard nothing before this screening. My eleven-year-old son tells me it is quite the thing at the...

March 21st, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

21 Jump Street (2012)

Buddy team, just for laughs The latest Hollywood recycling from the Eighties is 21 Jump Street, based on the 1987-1991 TV series that gave Johnny Depp his start. The original concerned a group of cool, multicultural young cops who went undercover at high schools. This version stars just two white guys,...

March 20th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Benjamin Mee Q&A

Zoo Keeper and writer Benjamin Mee was special guest at a preview screening at London’s exclusive Mayfair Hotel. His book We Bought a Zoo has been adapted into a Hollywood Film starring Matt Damon and Scarlet Johanssen. The film takes the broadest of Benjamin’s experiences of buying the...

March 18th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

We Bought a Zoo (2012)

Light on animal shenanigans but high on schmaltz, Cameron Crowe returns to narrative filmmaking after a brief sabbatical to make music documentaries with We Bought a Zoo a family friendly tale based on the real life story of former UK journalist Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon), who after the untimely death...

March 15th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

The Hunger Games Premiere

The latest in tween-age adoration was on parade for the premiere of a new franchise vehicle, The Hunger Games last night. Appropriately, an entire legion of screaming jailbait was on hand to swoon at Hollywood’s latest hearthrob creations and as such the nation’s press was there to relay...

March 15th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Interview with Robert Weickiewcz

His wonderfully strong performance as Leopold Socha has further cemented his reputation as Poland’s most versatile talent. Soon to be appearing as Lech Walesa in the biopic of the Solidarity Leader, Nobel Prize Winner and First President of Poland. Robert will see the word ‘hero’ posted...

March 14th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

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