Film

Review by Ben Holliday/@bholliday No film in recent history has had as many hurdles to overcome before paying punters get a chance to see the final product on the big screen. Be it a horrendous marketing campaign or a fanatical anti-Ghostbuster contingent in opposition to the all female cast, the Paul Feig directed flick has found itself in an odd position. For a vocal minority, this reboot would have to be the second coming of Citizen Kane to secure their...

Cult classic The Man Who Fell to Earth is set to get a 4k restoration to mark its 40th anniversary. The restoration is based on a 4K scan of the original camera negative, followed by a full 4K workflow, with the approval of cinematographer Anthony Richmond. Featuring a startling and era defining lead performance from David Bowie in his debut feature role and based on the cult novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth endures as, not only a...

Actor Christoph Waltz has compared Nigel Farage to the "head rat" following the resignation of the UKIP leader. Farage quit as leader of the UK Independence Party saying he feels he has "done his bit" and that now he has his "country back", he wants his life back. The resignation was raised with Waltz in a recent interview for his upcoming movie Tarzan. The Austrian-German actor is known to have strong opinions on Brexit, and he responded with: "Of course the head...

Shakespeare and Quentin Tarantino will unite in a modern adaption of Macbeth. The timeless, blood-soaked tale of murder, lust and power is to get a modern movie makeover as filming takes place in Birmingham on a reworking of the tragic play that plays homage to some of director Quentin Tarantino’s best-loved films. ‘Macbeth – Kill Bill Shakespeare’ is an imaginative take on one of the world’s most famous plays, with the production staying true to the original text. However, the images...

Review by Leslie Byron Pitt/@Afrofilmviewer Son of Saul is the type of movie that has to be seen when the viewer in the right state of mind. Least they find themselves equally as trapped within the films tight compositions, as the titular Saul. A Jewish–Hungarian prisoner held within the confines of Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig) works at the camp as one of the infamous Sonderkommando. He aids Jews into the gas chambers, fed on lies of...

The soundtrack for David Brent's come-back movie Life on the Road has been revealed along with new single 'Lady Gypsy'. Brent and his band Foregone Conclusion have released the record which features such hits as 'Equality Street', 'Free Love Freeway' and 'Spaceman'. New tracks 'Native American' and 'Please don’t Make Fun Of The Disableds' also star on the 15-track record. The album is set to be released to coincide with a film set 15 years after the events of The Office which follows Brent, a sales...

Pop-up screens return to London again this summer with a season's-worth of flicks aired in parks around the capital. Bishops Park in Fulham, Greenwich Peninsula, Coram’s Field, Ravenscourt Park in Hammersmith, Manor House Gardens in Hither Green and East Greenwich Pleasaunce will all provide the perfect alfresco set(ting) for this summer’s screenings. This year, Pop Up Screens have also announced that they will be taking over the courtyard of the city’s historic Guildhall in EC2 for seven nights in August. This will include...

Review by Leslie Byron Pitt/@Afrofilmviewer The Q&A which occurred after the Vue Piccadilly screening of The Colony was one embossed with passion. Director Florian Gallenberger’s near stream-of-consciousness speeches flowed around the auditorium with not only a sense of humility but also a sense of anxiety. At times his voice cracked. He would not give himself time to compose and rephrase his words. He wanted to get everything he could out there. It’s understandable. Gallenberger stated that the atrocities that occurred...

Review by Leslie Byron Pitt/@Afrofilmviewer Magnus von Horn’s frosty debut feature; The Here After, has the lead; John (Ulrik Munther), looking to start anew after serving two years in prison for a violent crime. What occurred is revealed slowly in muted detail. We know enough to understand what happened, but the film never lingers fully on the crime. Indeed the film is more concerned on the aftermath and how a small community looks upon one of their own. The wide-eyed...