Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival 2012 – part two

Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival 2012 – part one gave you coverage from the first four days of the festival, below is coverage from the festivals concluding days. Day 5 WR. Mysteries of the Organism: (dir. Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia, West Germany, 1971, 86min, colour/b&w, English, Serbian, Russian,...

August 24th, 2012 | Feature, Festivals, Spotlight | Read More

An Interview With Stuart Gordon

Just over a week ago I was lucky enough to catch Re-Animator: The Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s reviewed here and you can order your tickets for it here (get ‘em while you can). I love Re-Animator and I loved this comedy musical take on the material. Which is why I kicked myself when...

August 19th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

The Expendables 2 Premiere

In an echo of the grand theatre of the Olympic Closing Ceremony, the Leicester Square Empire’s red carpet ran not just out the door but half way around Leicester Square itself, lined on either side five deep by 4 pm, as if a large scale metaphor or representation of that great British institution,...

August 15th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

An Interview with Kevin Connor

With the recent release by Studiocanal of a host of Amicus Production 70s sci-fi onto DVD we were lucky enough to bend the ear of film Director Kevin Connor, the director behind many of these fondly rememebered films including At The Earth’s Core, Warlords of Atlantis and cult classic The Land that...

August 10th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival 2012 – part one

The T-Mobile Nowe Horyzonty (New Horizons) Film Festival, now in its 12th year, was held in Wroclaw, Poland, from the 19th to the 29th of July. As with previous years at the festival, the program was a mixture of big international festival films (some of which had premièred at Cannes and Sundance),...

August 10th, 2012 | Feature, Festivals, Spotlight | Read More

EIFF 2012 – An Overview

It all ends for another year. The curtains have closed on EIFF 2012, everyone can get back to something resembling a normal life and cinema staff in Edinburgh can stop being irritated by a swarm of people turning up at free screening after free screening to try and catch “the next big thing”. The...

July 11th, 2012 | Feature, Festivals, Spotlight | Read More

Damsel in Distress Seeks Superhero

Young, professional woman seeking protection, romance and adventure. I’m looking for a man that that can sweep me off my feet and fly me off into the sunset. Lycra uniform mandatory. Holding out for a hero? With Avengers: Assemble you get four for the price of one plus a Russian spy, a leather clad...

June 27th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Copenhagen CPH PIX Film Festival 2012 Roundup

From April 12 to April 29, the annual CPH PIX Film Festival was held in Copenhagen, and yours truly was on the spot on behalf of Flickfeast. I watched some forty movies from all over the world, and it was a grand experience. My focus lay on genres like sci-fi and fantasy, action and martial [...]

May 31st, 2012 | Feature, Festivals, Spotlight | Read More

Interview: All in Good Time Nigel Cole and Cast

When you look at the poster for All in Good Time after viewing the film, you will genuinely feel that this heartwarming tale is being sold short as a comedy in its tagline. The latest film from director Nigel Cole of Saving Grace and Made in Dagenham fame, a reworking of the play written by [...]

May 11th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

A Game of Shadows – Jude Law Q&A

Robert Downey Jr. reprises his role as the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law returns as his formidable colleague, Dr. Watson, in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. With the bromance and action in full effect and coming to DVD and blu-ray 14th May, flickfeast were lucky enough...

May 8th, 2012 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

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