Archive for the ‘Spotlight’ Category

The Berlinale 2012

The Berlinale 2012
 The Berlinale has become synonymous with high quality World Cinema, last year’s festival awarded A Separation (2011) the prestigious Golden Bear award, the film went on to win many more awards, is nominated for an Academy Award and made many a film critic’s best films of 2011 lists. This year the...
February 15th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Love Lessons Learnt From Film

Love Lessons Learnt From Film
Unlikely Ways to Get The Girl Do you freeze every time a foxy lady walks your way? Do you inevitably spill mustard / gravy / curry sauce down your front when you’re on a date? Never fear. Movie men have done far less winning things and still walked away with the girl of their dreams. [...]
February 14th, 2012 | Spotlight | Read More

2011 – That was the year that was

2011 – That was the year that was
In an attempt to provide an even better overview of the preceding 12 months than I did last year I have enlisted the help of a website that lists every single UK cinema release by date and have tried to check any releases that were moved around or failed to appear. This is an attempt [...]
December 29th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Interview with Another Earth Director Mike Cahill

Interview with Another Earth Director Mike Cahill
Mike Cahill, co-writer and director was at Raindance Fim Festival here in London promoting his new film, Another Earth. The low budget feature which co-writer Brit Marling stars in, explores the idea of  confronting our duplicate with the discovery of a replica earth. The film generated enough talk...
December 7th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Potty About Potter

Potty About Potter
A creation that has as much magic in the backstory behind it as it does on the page and on the screen, young Harry Potter was brought to life by J. K. Rowling in the wonderful city of Edinburgh while the woman struggled to cope with life as an unemployed, single mother (I’m not using [...]
December 1st, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Robots In Disguise (The Transformers Movies)

Robots In Disguise (The Transformers Movies)
Transformers. They were everywhere in the 80s. A very popular toy range, a TV show, an animated movie. And more. And there I was, sitting with something that cost a month of my pocket money and broke within half an hour. How I longed to get my hands on proper working models of Optimus Prime, [...]
November 30th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Kenneth Branagh – A Life in Pictures

Kenneth Branagh – A Life in Pictures
Kenneth Branagh is in a new film, My Week With Marilyn, in which he plays his hero Laurence Olivier. Reviews so far have been enthusiastic and the audience at Bafta’s recent tribute series, Life in Pictures, were feeling that enthusiasm when the erudite Irishman spoke of playing the great English...
November 28th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

The fiction of science and the science of fiction. And Star Wars

The fiction of science and the science of fiction. And Star Wars
A couple of the FlickFeast contributors were riffing in the forum on the question of science fiction, and why it was that, to quote the Venerable Kev, so many science fiction films “hide some very, very dark stuff with a nice glossy coating of entertainment”. Not all, of course, but the special...
November 21st, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Cornwall Film Festival 2011

Cornwall Film Festival 2011
With a brand new location of the recently built Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay and a strong line-up of films this year, Cornwall Film Festival was bigger and better than ever for its 10th anniversary. This year the festival paid particular attention to some low-budget gems including Sundance sleeper hit...
November 17th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Enter . . . . . . . . . . . The Matrix (1999 – 2003)

Enter . . . . . . . . . . . The Matrix (1999 – 2003)
If you’re going to treat yourself to a bit of a sci-fi binge and you also like some impressive action sequences then you really can’t go wrong with The Matrix franchise. Okay, so it’s the first movie that stands proud as the jewel in the crown but revisiting the other movies (the two...
November 14th, 2011 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More
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