love and friendship

One of the best films of the year, LOVE & FRIENDSHIP is now available to be loved and befriended in the privacy of your own home.

A sly story of sex and sensibility, the script is based on an obscure …

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approaching the unknown

Mark Elijah Rosenberg writes and directs his first feature, APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN, with a keen appreciation of scientific ingenuity and human life but without an understanding of the artistry required to translate these ideas into a cinematic experience.

The story …

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david bowie : the man who stole the world

Six months after the seemingly sudden expiration of David Bowie, the world is still in shock.

This seismic reaction is explained some in the DVD release of DAVID BOWIE: THE MAN WHO STOLE THE WORLD.

The documentary begins the day …

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this one’s for al

Go figure! It’s 8 years since Al Pacino has had a film in cinema release in this country, whereas his contemporary Robert De Diro has had the tiresome DIRTY GRANDPA, THE INTERN, JOY, and LAST VEGAS released.

At least two …

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gaspar noe’s new film ‘love’

LOVE-main

Three minutes of mutual masturbation between Murphy and Electra serves as a kind of narrative foreplay for the fetishist flashback that is LOVE, Gaspar Noe’s explicit epic of ennui.

Murphy (Karl Glusman) and Electra (Aomi Muyock) were lovers until Murphy …

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toast of london tv series comes to dvd

Toast of London- Series 2

Luvvies love looking in and TOAST OF LONDON is a luvvie fest that looks in on London’s likeliest contender for worst actor, Steven Toast.

Actually, Toast isn’t really such a bad actor, it’s just that he has either made bad …

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a girl walk home alone at night

The vampire genre has found its vintage again in the last year with Jim Jarmusch’s ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE and the Kiwi cult hit WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS.

Now an Iranian film makes a thrilling trifecta in the …

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hector and the pursuit of happiness

Book Pic

In the fabulous book WHAT I LIKE ABOUT MOVIES, published by Faber & Faber, editor David Jenkins writes “Simon Pegg is the very definition of the kind of bloke you’d want to go down to the pub with.”

In his …

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the fall series 2

the fall series 2

Series writer, Allan Cubitt, takes over directing duties as well in the second, and assumingly, final season of the serial killer epic, THE FALL.

Season one was a five part thriller with Gillian Anderson’s Detective Super Intendant Stella Gibson brought …

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