By James Mackney Guillermo del Toro is a creative and visionary director that is known for making emotional and character driven films. He is able to create worlds of daring depth and draw the audience in with fiendish plots. Del Toro made his name by making emotional horror films and has since branched out with more Hollywood romps such as “Pacific Rim” and “Hellboy”; he is a director whose work should be savoured. Pan’s Labyrinth “Pan’s Labyrinth” is a brilliant...
Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks and Ana de Armas all in attendance at the Corinthia Hotel, London as the much anticipated Blade Runner 2049 is about to be released. Ryan Gosling at the photo call for Blade Runner 2049. Court Room, Corinthia Hotel, Whitehall Place, Westminster, London 21 September 2017 Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling at the photo call for Blade Runner 2049. Court Room, Corinthia Hotel, Whitehall Place, Westminster, London 21 September 2017 Harrison Ford at the photo...
Bristol-based animal campaigning charity, Viva!, have launched their biggest ever fundraising campaign - ‘Bring Hope to Millions’. Their goal is to raise £100k and place first ever pro-vegan cinema ads in front of over two million UK cinema–goers. Viva! are Europe’s largest vegan campaigning charity and have been promoting a plant-based lifestyle for over 20 years and have launched countless hard-hitting campaigns including bus adverts targeting the dairy industry, a recent nationwide demonstration targeting Tesco for obtaining meat from ‘Hogwood Horror Farm’ and created a media frenzy on foie-gras. Their patrons...
By Michael McNulty There is little doubt that Maysaloun Hamoud’s film, In Between, is an important and ambitious debut feature. A feminist film, centring on a trio of Palestinian-Israeli women as they struggle to find a balance between the liberal lives they aspire to and the traditional culture that surrounds them. Selma (Sana Jammelieh) and Leila (Mouna Hawa) live in an apartment together in the Jaffa district of Tel-Aviv. Selma is an aspiring DJ who works a series of pick...
On July 5th 1980, Björn Borg, the “Ice Man” of Sweden and the world’s highest ranked tennis player at the time, walked out onto the Centre Court of Wimbledon, hoping to win his fifth consecutive title at the All England Club. An edgy excitement arose from the crowd, yet somehow the Swede remained calm & collected as he strode onto the grass, his mind focused solely on the task at hand. The only obstacle standing is his way was John...
Church officials have been forced to address 'concerns' after allowing a cathedral to be used to film HELLBOY - a movie about a demon summoned by the Nazis. Filming has been taking place at Wells Cathedral in Somerset - with reports suggesting it was Dr Who or Fantastic Beasts 2. But it has now emerged a production company was making sections of 'Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen'. Archive photo of Wells Cathedral. Set during the Second World War the...
Author Rex Wood has been a regular on the dating scene for over a decade. In that time, the 30-year-old banker, based in London, has been on more than 500 dates, and has slept with over 100 women. To polish his playboy performance, Wood has assiduously kept a ‘sex spreadsheet’ that records the first names, dates and location of every erotic encounter he’s had — as well as details about what was going through his mind from the point of...
Check out our exclusive clip showing Director Patty Jenkins' vision for Wonder Woman to celebrate the upcoming digital and dvd release of this year's superhero blockbuster! Experience the wonder when Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s “WONDER WOMAN” arrives onto 4K UHD, Blu-ray™ 3D, Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital Download. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores...
By Wyndham Hacket Pain Such are the difficulties faced by young people in China jobs can be very hard to find and there has been a trend for them to seek employment within funeral homes. This strange happening was spotted by director Carol Salter and is the subject matter of her debut feature Almost Heaven. It is at one of these homes that we meet Ying Ling, a 17 year old girl who is training to be a mortician. It is...
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