When you find out about a horror film festival named after the opening lines of a famous Simon and Garfunkel song, you know you're onto something special. And so it is with Hello Darkness, the latest genre filmfest on the...

Ah, young love and disappearances, these are the things that fuel Tom Harper's The Scouting Book For Boys.  Screening Sunday at the London Film Festival, Scouting Book stars the stellar Thomas Turgoose (This Is England, Somers Town) as the...

Sit up and take notice, all of you.  We have long sung the praises of UK satirist Armando Iannucci in these pages but it wasn't until the local success of his debut feature, In The Loop, that many on...

[This post bumped up with the arrival of a high quality, embeddable version of the trailer.]I'm playing a bit of catch-up here on things that appeared whilst I was in transit for the past day or two and here's...

After a month away, the video blogs for Simon Rumley's upcoming Red, White and Blue return!  This installment features a pair of videos, the first - the more prim and proper of the two - featuring Rumley and his...

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...

For the past three decades, Ken Loach has been the granddaddy of British Social Realism. His kitchen sink dramas focus on real people living normal lives, normally in working class Britain. He has occasionally ventured out of his comfort... More >>

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...

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...

Jonathan auf der Heide, the director of colonial cannibal movie Van Diemen's Land, is currently developing an Australian western, chronicling the life and times of one of the country's most notorious bushrangers, Ben Hall.Immortalised and romanticised in folklore, bushrangers are...