Ben Wheatley has a new film coming out next year but we hopefully we will be covering it when it premieres at the London Film Festival as the end film Gala in October. It stars Cillian Murphy, Arnie Hammer, Brie Larson, Sam Riley and Noah Taylor. It's a 70's set crime film set during real-time when an arms … Continue reading Trailer for Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire
The Shop on the High Street to this day remains the only of only two Czech films to ever win the best foreign language film at the Academy Awards. The other for those who don't know is Closely Observed Trains. Both films dealt with the Nazi occupation of the then Czechoslovakia which is today is now Czech … Continue reading The Shop on the High Street – DVD Review
It's September so it's that time for Scalarama to screen a series of cult films around the city of Leeds. Everything from Kitchen Sink Drama to fantastical Czech cinema to plenty of music films. They are being screened at everywhere from Hyde Park Picture House, Left Bank, Wharf Chambers, Headingly Heart. Check out the full programme on … Continue reading Preview for Scalarama Leeds
Eyewitness is the kind of film which really should be a classic but despite a cast to die and a solid director at the helm, it's good but never quite gets to the heights it should-be. Peter Yates directs it after the surprise success of his cult bike racing film Breaking Away. Steve Tesich wrote the … Continue reading Eyewitness – Blu-Ray Review
Fritz Lang is one of the greatest directors of all-time and he would still be if he only stopped making films in 1933 with The Testament of Dr. Mabuse. However he fled Germany because some guy with a Chaplin 'tash was in power and eventually went to the US and made a string of film noirs … Continue reading Hangmen Also Die! – Blu-Ray Review
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