Film

A list of the top 15 greatest ever TV shows has been compiled by Sky Atlantic with Breaking Bad and the Big Bang Theory both landing in the top 5.  It seems we could be living in a second Golden Age of television with eight of the top 15 TV shows made in the past ten years. Along with Breaking Bad and the Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones landed in seventh place beating time-honoured British classic Doctor Who, which finished...

By Anna Power @TLE_Film The Imitation Game comes to Blu-ray and DVD from 9th March, 2015, courtesy of StudioCanal. See below to win a copy on Blu Ray. A simple story about a complicated man, Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), the Cambridge mathematician whose unquantifiable contribution to the decoding of Enigma, is a story previously unheralded on screen before The Imitation Game. Based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges, the film faithfully portrays the complexity of Turing’s...

By Anna Power Pride is a funny, heartwarming, celebratory film about the real-life union between gay rights campaigners in London and striking Welsh miners. Set in the 80’s, depicting a time when the harsh policies of Margaret Thatcher’s government made insurgents out of the least likely, crossing societal divisions of class, race, gender and sexual identity, when politically the only side to be on was - any side but Thatcher’s side. Throw into the mix a stonking 80’s soundtrack (The...

By Sam Inglis   @24fpsUK  24fps.org.uk Gregg Araki started off as a true underground figure, making distinctive and divisive films like The Living End and his 'teen apocalypse' trilogy. Over the past decade, however, he seems to have been trying to square his auteurism and his favoured topics with at least some level of commercial appeal. Some films, like Mysterious Skin and Kaboom veer more towards his auteurist side, while Smiley Face was an unabashed tilt at the mainstream. White...

By Emma Silverthorn  @HouseOf_Gazelle Feature-film A Dark Reflection was inspired by the research for a potential sequel to the 2007 documentaryWelcome Aboard Toxic Airlines and perhaps director Tristan Loraine should have stuck to documentaries. On a political level I feel strongly that this is an important film but artistically it left me cold. Personally I was glad to see the little known issue of the potential damage that organophosphates can cause exposed. It’s not a very sexy topic but the...

By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle Kornel Mundruczo’s feature White God can’t really be done justice in conversation, as I’ve realised this week raving to friends about a film that follows an army of dogs as they take over a Hungarian city! But White God is an exceptional film. It’s many things depending on your view point, an animal rights film, a comment on the current political situation in Hungary; one that is easily extrapolated to other parts of the world, (the...

Corrina Antrobus @corrinacorrina A best selling weepy with a critically acclaimed cast? No wonder there's an Oscar whiff about the theatrical adaptation of Lisa Genova's book Still Alice. This $5m to make movie entered Toronto Film Festival with no distribution ties and left with the wet ink of Sony Pictures Classics (and not a dry eye in the house). This is no drama, it's more of a horror story for anyone with a bird brain. Ever forgotten to put the...

Review by Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada Quoting Homer and repairing garages while flashing his biceps, Noah seems like the perfect distraction for the super-glamourous high school teacher Claire (Jennifer Lopez). She has recently kicked her cheating husband out of her house, but not quite out of her life. Noah, the titular boy next door, is an allegedly 19 year old hunk with a passion for the more violent episodes of the Iliad and great abs, played by visibly 27 year old...

By Stephen Mayne @finalreel  thefinalreel.co.uk A week on and the dust is settling on the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival. As ever with the Berlinale, this edition mixed the sublime with the ridiculous in a programme so large unwitting critics have been known to lose sense of direction and never emerge again. So what did this February film bonanza bring? By all accounts a worthy winner in the shape of Jafar Panahi’s Taxi. The acclaimed Iranian filmmaker whose previous effort...