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• Commented on It's in the Game
  Awww I loved Syndicate on the PC, even when you set off a load of bombs at the same time and it...went... really... really... slow... And the sound effects of the minigun. So cool....
  November 17, 2009 6:48 AM
• Posted Mid-August Lunch to Movies
  November 16, 2009 5:05 PM
• Posted Mid-August Lunch to Movies
  November 16, 2009 5:05 PM
• Posted MID-AUGUST LUNCH UK DVD Review to Reviews
  Offered up with an array of awards from its festival run in 2008, Gianni Di Gregorio's Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo Di Ferragosto) finally makes it to DVD on 7th December through Artificial Eye. A warm, likeable and gently comic drama,...
  November 16, 2009 4:56 PM
• Commented on A Rant And Some Advice
  Sadly ushers seem to have gone out with recession cost cutting......
  November 6, 2009 4:03 PM
• Commented on A Rant And Some Advice
  That's a good call Mack, early Sundays. Sadly I'm often a bit too docile at that point to even make it in...!...
  November 6, 2009 4:44 AM
• Commented on A Rant And Some Advice
  Obviously being English I avoided confrontation and said nothing to them......
  November 6, 2009 4:40 AM
• Posted A Rant And Some Advice to News
  Cinema etiquette is a tricky thing to get right. A bit like using cutlery, what's deemed acceptable varies from person to person. Hold your knife like a pencil at my place, and you're likely to be holding it by...
  November 5, 2009 9:18 AM
• Posted HEARTLESS preview plus Philip Ridley Q&A in London to News
  Greeted with a mixed response from festival-goers Philip Ridley's first feature in 14 years, is getting another London preview, this time at the ICA on 24th November. Ridley will be in attendance for a Q&A after the Heartless screening to...
  November 4, 2009 8:15 AM
• Posted Exam to Movies
  November 3, 2009 8:41 AM
• Posted Raindance Festival 2009: EXAM Review to Reviews
  It's Cube meets The Apprentice, as eight high-flying candidates for an exclusive job at a mysterious corporation arrive for the final round of the selection process. In a basement room, devoid of artificial light, they must sit an exam...
  November 3, 2009 8:26 AM
• Commented on Fear The Burning Wrath Of The FIREMAN!
  This can join Maniac Cop and The Dentist as another emergency service personnel on the rampage flick. what next? The Paramedic?...
  October 30, 2009 10:27 AM
• Posted A PROPHET (Un Prophèt) Wins Best Film At LFF 2009 to News
  The winners of this year's LFF have been announced with Jacques Audiard's A Prophet (Un Prophèt) taking home the Star of London Best Film award. John Hillcoat's The Road was also given special mention by the jury. The French prison...
  October 29, 2009 8:19 AM
• Posted A Halloween treat from Adam Green! to News
  Featuring director Paul Solet of Grace fame, this year's Halloween short from Adam Green is a hugely enlightening infomercial for anyone planning to make a Jack Lantern (or whatever you call them). It's very much reminiscent of Paul Kaye's...
  October 28, 2009 1:29 PM
• Posted "THE ESSENTIAL MICHAEL HANEKE" to News
  Though the ship has already sailed on this one (released on the 19th October) I feel compelled to spread a bit of Haneke love. To coincide with the theatrical release of The White Ribbon, Artificial Eye has released a...
  October 28, 2009 9:36 AM
• Commented on Lights! Camera! ZOMBIES!
  Surely Sergio Leone?...
  October 28, 2009 9:14 AM
• Commented on Zombie's Halloween II review
  I too loathed the first Zombie Halloween, so can't really see myself liking this. I get that he's doing a totally different take on the whole franchise, but his films just make me feel a bit dirty, like I've just...
  October 28, 2009 9:12 AM
• Posted The White Ribbon to Movies
  October 26, 2009 9:37 AM
• Posted London Film Festival 2009: THE WHITE RIBBON gets UK release date and trailer to News
  Hot on the heels of its LFF screening, Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winning The White Ribbon is getting a UK theatrical release on 13th November through arthouse supremos Artificial Eye."A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of...
  October 26, 2009 9:17 AM
• Posted London Film Festival 2009: VALHALLA RISING Review to Reviews
  A metaphorical journey through a mythic landscape, Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to Bronson is a bewildering Viking tale. In the Scottish highlands change is coming for the Pagans in the form of a Christian-led crusade, on a mission from God...
  October 23, 2009 10:37 AM
• Posted IP MAN on UK DVD and Blu-ray to News
  With considerable attention already paid to Yip and Yen's martial arts epic here on Twitch, there's little left to say... IP Man is out in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray from 26th October in the UK. Hot on the...
  October 22, 2009 8:31 AM
• Posted The Last Days Of Emma Blank to Movies
  October 21, 2009 1:21 PM
• Posted London Film Festival 2009: THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK Review to Reviews
  For anyone who's ever had a relative ask something unreasonable of them under the guise of familial duty, this one's for you. Like Festen, that milestone of family dysfunction, this absurdist Dutch satire on family values sounded exactly like...
  October 21, 2009 1:13 PM
• Posted 44 Inch Chest to Movies
  October 18, 2009 4:07 PM
• Posted London Film Festival 2009: 44 INCH CHEST Review to Reviews
  From the writing team behind Sexy Beast (Louis Mellis and David Scinto) comes another supremely sweary study of a masculinity in crisis. Whereas the arrival of Ben Kingsley brought Ray Winstone's life crumbling around him in the former, here it's...
  October 18, 2009 4:01 PM
• Commented on Fantastic Fest 09: Todd's Thoughts On ZOMBIELAND
  Saw this last night, and am totally puzzled with how well recieved it's been. Fair enough, it is fairly entertaining and Woody Harrelson is a pretty funny guy here, but it never rises above mediocrity. As a comedy it isn't...
  October 15, 2009 8:34 AM
• Posted Raindance Festival 2009: A NECESSARY DEATH Review to Reviews
  Gilbert wants to film the lead up to a suicide for his final film school thesis, and so with the help of his college buddies, Val (his ex), Michael and Daniel (all playing themselves) he sets about searching for a...
  October 13, 2009 8:39 AM
• Posted TRUE BLOOD Season 1 on UK DVD and Blu-ray to News
  Ok, so I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but just as I pop my True Blood cherry (on Channel 4 now, after a successful run on FX), they go and release the season 1 box...
  October 9, 2009 5:18 AM
• Posted Crying With Laughter to Movies
  October 7, 2009 9:12 AM
• Posted Raindance Festival 2009: CRYING WITH LAUGHTER Review to Reviews
  Justin Molotnikov's feature debut, Crying With Laughter, centres on a week-in-the-life of rising Edinburgh stand-up comic Joey Fisk (Stephen McCole) as he recounts the events that have led to him turning up on stage looking even more disheveled than normal....
  October 7, 2009 9:09 AM
• Posted Terracotta Distribution acquires UK rights for BREATHLESS to News
  Yang Ik-june's multi-award winning directorial debut Breathless (Ddongpari) has been picked up for release in the UK by Terracotta Distribution, with a date currently set for sometime in January 2010. If you can't wait that long, this much praised chronicle...
  October 5, 2009 8:59 AM
• Posted Sitges 09: SHADOW Review to Reviews
  Having not in the least bit of affection for Rob Zombie's forays into film making I approached this one from another rock-star-turned-horror-director with some trepidation. The debut feature from Italian pop rock star Federico Zampaglione harks back in no...
  October 3, 2009 1:51 PM
• Posted Sci-Fi London: Three Oktoberfest All-Nighters! to News
  As part of their Oktoberfest mid-year mini festival, Sci-Fi London are hosting a trilogy of all-nighters over the weekend of 23rd/24th October. An Aliens and Predators programme is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ridley Scott's defining classic, screening the...
  September 25, 2009 6:23 AM
• Posted Vinyan to Movies
  September 24, 2009 9:17 AM
• Posted Fabrice Du Welz hits London for a VINYAN Q&A - plus see it for FREE! to News
  Anyone who's seen Vinyan, Fabrice Du Welz's follow-up to the fabulously bonkers Calvaire, may well wish to ask the Belgian director a thing or two about it (probably in a rather stern voice). Well now's your chance to get...
  September 24, 2009 9:06 AM
• Commented on TIFF09: VOMIT AT RYERSON ANTICHRIST SCREENING!!
  I seem to remember people vomiting at screenings of The Wild Bunch back in 1969... I wonder what will have people chucking up in the aisles in 40 years time. Hmmm....
  September 22, 2009 12:08 PM
• Posted An interview with SHADOW director FEDERICO ZAMPAGLIONE to Interviews
  Following a fantastic reaction to Federico Zampaglione's Shadow at this year's Film 4 Frightfest in London, I was able to put some questions to the Italian rock star ahead of another two screenings at the Sitges International Fantastic Film...
  September 22, 2009 8:27 AM
• Posted PEEP SHOW returns! to News
  Perpetual losers Mark (David Mitchell) and Jeremy (Robert Webb) return for another hysterical and cringe-inducing series of the superb Peep Show on Friday night (Channel 4, 10pm). Now in its sixth series, I struggle to think of any sitcom...
  September 15, 2009 7:34 AM
• Commented on Venice 09: Todd's Thoughts On THE HORDE
  Todd, I'm 100% with you on this one... massively disappointing and really pretty hopeless in every respect. The biggest letdown of Frightfest (that I saw) and a shambles to say the least with a terrible over reliance on CGI gore....
  September 15, 2009 7:03 AM
• Posted Reckoning Day to Movies
  September 10, 2009 11:08 AM
• Posted RECKONING DAY Review to Reviews
  Let's get this clear from the start. Reckoning Day is for all intents and purposes a student film, shot for a paltry £7k on 16mm by a bunch of mates pissing about after Uni. Made in 2002 using friends and...
  September 10, 2009 11:06 AM
• Commented on TIFF 09: ANTICHRIST Review
  Yeah true Kurt, the UK poster was just bold red type of the title on an all black background, surrounded by quotes on how 'depraved' it is......
  September 10, 2009 10:35 AM
• Commented on TIFF 09: ANTICHRIST Review
  What a ridiculous poster for this movie! Clearly trying to cash in on 'that' scene, but likely to attract exactly the sort of person who won't enjoy this... oh dear. Looks a little like that old Jagged Edge poster I...
  September 9, 2009 11:04 AM
• Posted Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Line Up Announced! to News
  So the line-up of The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival has been announced, and inevitably there's much to be excited about. With 15 world premieres, 146 UK premieres and a total of 191 features being screened over 2...
  September 9, 2009 9:52 AM
• Posted Revolver launches production arm to News
  Independent distributer Revolver has set up its own production arm - Gunslinger - to develop, produce and finance new feature films. The first will be British action thriller Shank, currently filming somewhere in the urban sprawl of south London. Revolver...
  September 9, 2009 9:47 AM
• Commented on Vincenzo Natali's SPLICE To Premiere In Sitges!
  Saw some footage of this at Frightfest and it looked a little like Species!? Strange cute (but angry when pushed...) creature with little bird like legs and no arms. Odd but interesting......
  September 7, 2009 2:22 PM
• Posted Giallo to Movies
  August 31, 2009 1:50 PM
• Posted FRIGHTFEST 2009 Review: GIALLO to Reviews
  Dario Argento's latest has been one of the biggest surprises of the festival. Surprising in that it's absolutely hilarious, and by that I don't mean a little bit funny, I mean as funny a film I've seen at the...
  August 31, 2009 1:50 PM
• Commented on FRIGHTFEST 2009: A Note On LA HORDE
  Onderhound, don't forget the Dardenne brothers... two of the finest directors full stop. And they're Belgian!!...
  August 31, 2009 2:11 AM
• Posted FRIGHTFEST 2009: A Note On LA HORDE to News
  Much covered on Twitch, French zombie horror La Horde screened yesterday to a hungry crowd at Frightfest as a sneak preview to the upcoming 'world premiere' at the Venice Film Festival. We saw the film in its entirety. Reviews...
  August 30, 2009 12:33 AM