Film

Like my wife, are you completely taken in by over-the-top movie stunts? Or, are you (like me) the complete bore who continually shouts ‘Urgh, that is so unrealistic!’ at the TV? Since the emergence of CGI special effects, stunts have become more and more outrageous, leaving many of us questioning if they are even remotely possible. Well, BetWay have settled the argument. They’ve analysed stunts from twelve popular blockbuster movies to determine whether they could really happen in real life....

ShirkersDir: Sandi TanMany films are lost, but I’m not sure I’ve ever previously heard of a film being stolen. Shirkers is a film about a film, one made in 1989 by a group of film students, written by 18 year old Sandi Tan and directed by Georges Cardona, who taught her and her friends to be filmmakers, Shirkers was one of a tiny handful of independent films made in Singapore, which at the time had no film industry to speak...

With contributions from: Sam Inglis, Maddy Fry, Wyndham Pain, Christopher Marchant and Jim Mackney How to Talk to Girls at Parties John Cameron Mitchell’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s sci-fi coming of age story got a critical hammering and a low key release, but not only will I stump for it, I think it will develop a dedicated, and deserved, cult following.Elle Fanning plays an alien who is, for the first time, in human form. She connects with a punk kid...

I had the toys when I was growing up, but oddly I don’t have any specific memory of the Transformers TV show, the same goes for the animated film that so many fans hold close to their hearts. That being the case, when I saw Michael Bay’s first live action entry in the film series that Bumblebee forms a prequel to, I wasn’t angry, just bored. I got angry come the second and third films, not only because they were...

In this special end of year wrap up, Film Features Editor Sam Inglis and Film Editor James McAllister take a look at 2018 in film. What kind of year has it been? What were the best and worst films? (A clue, there's one of each in the image above). What were our favourite performances and which rising talents are we tipping for future success? In this show we take a look at all those questions and much more.  You can...

Grandfather Keith Morton, 65, has created an incredible replica of the Titanic - with 40,000 LEGO BRICKS.

For some years now, I have been a frustrated fan of the British actress Andrea Riseborough. She’s clearly a huge talent, but one who always seemed to turn up and be the best thing in movies that were anything from disaster (Madonna’s misbegotten W/E, in which she shone against all odds) to disappointment (Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy, which underused her, meaning that the film’s revenge narrative never connected with me). Finally, Riseborough has a film that can match her. Nancy is...

Here is Morgan Freeman being blessed by a holy monk in Kathmandu, Nepal

Adapted from The New Yorker article of the same name, The Old Man & the Gun tells the mostly true story of a serial bank robber who even in his 70s couldn’t resist the thrill of his next heist. Following a miraculous escape from San Quentin prison, Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) begins a string of robberies that confuse the authorities and begin to catch the attention of the public. Young detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck) is left perplexed and quickly becomes obsessed with the...