Film

KinDir: Josh and Jonathan BakerI talk about the way films are marketed, or rather mis-marketed, a lot. Outside the cinemas, UK distribution is awash with films you might never notice have been released. Some you might have heard of, except they got released with new titles. Others, like Kin, have DVD art that makes them look like something completely different. At its heart, Kin is about brothers. 14 year old Eli (Myles Truitt) is adopted, and his older ex-con adoptive...

The video nasties list isn’t jam packed with classics (though it features a fair few), but what it is, by accident rather than design, is a list of truly singular films. For better or worse, almost every film on the nasties list is an original, something born of passionate people scraping together the resources to make a movie, often falling into the horror genre or relying on gore because they knew that would be something they could use to sell...

The Shirley Valentine star put The Wabe on the market for £17.5 million but it was eventually snapped up for £11 million

The 8ft 7in sidekick of Han Solo was carved from the trunk of a fallen Ash tree and has already proved to be a popular attraction.

Stan Laurel and Ollie Hardy had been performing together for almost 30 years when they arrived in the UK in 1954 for a theatre tour. Their glory days were clearly behind them but they put on a string of admirable performances despite their advanced years and failing health. They may no longer have been at the cutting edge of comedy but there was an undeniable spark that remained between them. Stan & Ollie follows them on this bittersweet tour as they try...

A long cherished project for director Wash Westmoreland and his late husband and writing partner Richard Glatzer, Colette has been over fifteen years in the planning. It’s a bit disappointing, then, to find that it’s a fairly straightforward telling of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s (Keira Knightley) life during her marriage to Henry Gauthier-Villars, known both professionally and socially as Willy (Dominic West). During this time she wrote a series of Claudine novels, based on her own life but which, like the work...

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...