Category: FILM
CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL OPEN FOR ENTRIES
After a successful move last year to the sparkling new Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay, the Cornwall Film Festival team are thrilled to confirm that the Festival will be returning there in 2012.The Festival dates, 8th to 11th November, will include a fourth day of programming, jam-packed full of outstanding films, workshops and special events. To [...]
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES CO-FOUNDER STEVE SEVERIN RETURNS TO EXETER PICTUREHOUSE
Steven Severin, former bass-player and founding member of highly influential post-punk legends Siouxsie and the Banshees, returns to Exeter Picturehouse on Sunday Feb 19. He was last there just over a year ago, to provide a live soundtrack using a laptop, to Le Sang d’un Poete (Blood Of A Poet), Jean Cocteau’s 1930 black & [...]
REVIEW: SHAME
Velvet soft silk sheets swirled like gorgeous waves of hair surround an apathetic figure looking longingly into the distance. The blue hue of the sheets, Michael Fassbender’s slightly amorphous pale body, and the bright light blend into one smooth washed out piece of cinematic minimalism. It is this restraint that made director Steve McQueen’s debut [...]
REVIEW: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL
The Mission: Impossible franchise returns with Ghost Protocol, the fourth entry in there series in which superspy Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must struggle to clear his name and save the world after being framed for a nuclear terrorist plot. Still eminently likeable despite any off-screen weirdness, Cruise leads team-mates Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula [...]
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REVIEW: 50/50
Cancer is never an easy subject to tackle on film, not least in comedy, yet director Jonathan Levine and writer Will Reiser pull it off with 50/50, a comedy/drama in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a seemingly healthy young man suddenly diagnosed with a rare form of the disease. Loosely based on screenwriter Reiser’s own experience [...]
REVIEW: THE RUM DIARY
Johnny Depp stars in The Rum Diary, an adaptation of acclaimed writer Hunter S. Thompson’s second novel, in which American journalist Paul Kemp attempts to stay afloat as he struggles with political corruption, artistic integrity and 100 proof liquor on the beaches of Puerto Rico. Kemp is something of a Thompson surrogate, and the film [...]
CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL TO MOVE FROM FALMOUTH TO NEWQUAY
As the Cornwall Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, organisers say the future us looking bright thanks to an increase in visitor numbers and has outgrown its Falmouth base so plans to move to Newquay for 2012. “I’m thrilled to report that gross revenues for tickets and passes are up nearly 40% over 2010, despite [...]
BRISTOL ENCOUNTERS FILM FESTIVAL 2011
Bristol Encounters International Film Festival is back at Watershed and the Arnolfini this week – a showcase the best short film and animation talent from around the world. The UK’s only gateway to the Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Cartoon d’Or and European Film Awards, the festival, which started on Wednesday and finishes on Sunday, showcases 180 [...]
PALESTINIAN FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES IN BRISTOL
Palestinian cinema is emerging as a major artistic force on the global scene. A unique mix of wry wit and self-doubt it provides an avenue for mostly untold cultural, historical and personal narratives telling the stories of a people and culture seldom told in mainstream media. For the first time ever the Bristol Palestine Film [...]
REVIEW: THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN – THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN
King of the blockbuster Steven Spielberg returns to the adventure genre with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, a thoroughly satisfying family popcorn movie based on Hergé’s classic comic book series. As fans of Hergé’s opus will know, Tintin follows the eponymous boy reporter, his wire fox terrier Snowy and friendly seafaring [...]
CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL 2011
Cornwall’s only major film festival is just around the corner, offering an inspiring selection of Cornish, British and international screenings plus workshops, talks and special events for all ages – completely filling three days in its new home, Newquay’s Lighthouse Cinema, this weekend. This year the festival celebrates 10 years of uniquely supporting filmmaking — [...]
BLUES BROTHERS BANNED AT EXMOUTH PAVILION
One of the UK’s favourite young show bands, Blues Brothers Banned return to the West Country playing Exmouth Pavilion on Friday 30 September and Carnglaze Caverns on Saturday 1 October. The high energy ten piece band present a jam packed night of music and mayhem with hits from the cult Blues Brothers and Commitments movies [...]
UK FILM CRITIC MARK KERMODE AT EXETER PICTUREHOUSE
Top UK film critic Mark Kermode is appearing live at Exeter Picturehouse on October 31 as part of The Mark Kermode Book Tour: The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex. It is a major coup for the Bartholomew Street West independent cinema and it is expected the event will sell out as Mark highlights what [...]
ELIMINATE ARCHIE COOKSON PUTS BRISTOL ON INTERNATIONAL MOVIE MAP
Bristol based film-maker Rob Holder blasts onto the big screen with a cult-thriller that’s firmly based in the South West. It’s his first outing as a film director and if his debut is anything to go by then we could be seeing a lot more from Bedminster’s resident auteur. John Barker finds out more… Bristol [...]
FILM REVIEW: SENNA
The scorching sound of burning rubber and the smell of petrol explodes from the screen in this exciting documentary about the late great Formula One driver Ayrton Senna. Beginning with Ayrton’s early carting career, the film uses a series of documentary style clips, news footage and behind the scenes footage to create a rich tapestry [...]
GLOUCESTERSHIRE FILM STUDENT WINS AWARD FOR SMALL HOURS SHORT FILM
Budding film makers from The University of Gloucestershire have won a prestigious British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) award for the third time in four years. Digital Film Production students picked up the gong for Best Student Production (Undergraduate), at the BUFVC Learning on Screen Awards 2011, for their film ‘Small Hours’ directed by [...]
UPSIDE DOWN: THE CREATION RECORDS STORY SCREENED IN CINEMAS ACROSS THE REGION
Over a quarter of a century since it began, and a decade after it folded, Upside Down takes a fascinating look at Creation Records, one of the UK’s most influential and colourful independent record labels. Creation Records began in 1983 by Alan McGee, launching the careers of The Jesus and Mary Chain, Primal Scream, Oasis, [...]
BRISTOL CINEMA DE LUX TO SCREEN LIVE COVERAGE OF FINAL FAITHLESS GIG IN LONDON
The final concert from legendary dance act Faithless will be beamed live via satellite from London’s Brixton O2 Academy to Showcase Cinema de Lux Bristol on Friday (April 8). Having already sold out, this will be a unique opportunity for fans to see the concert first hand. After an amazing 15 years that started with [...]
EXETER VIBRAPHONIC FESTIVAL REGGAE FILM SHOWCASE
Exeter’s Vibraphonic Festival continues until April 3rd, with top names across various venues, such as Amber Rooms, Cavern, Phoenix and Timepiece, to name a few. We featured Example as this month’s cover star, who played at the Lemongrove last Friday. Two reggae films are being shown at Exeter Phoenix this Wednesday, March 30th, as a [...]
