Venice Film Festival: Which films should you look out for?

On 5th July 2017, the organisers of the Venice International Film Festival (or Venice Biennale if you prefer) announced that actress Annette Bening would be acting as the jury president. Yes folks, it's that time of year again as the summer to early autumn film festivals begin to select their …

10/07/2017

Jack Monaghan

Movies

An introduction to… Edgar Wright

This week sees Edgar Wright bring us his latest release, the musical action-comedy Baby Driver. What can you say about the man? He's one of Britain's most prominent writer-directors and one of the major tenants of modern comedy. Thus, in celebration of the release of Baby Driver, we have just …

28/06/2017

Jack Monaghan

Movies

An introduction to… the films of David Lynch

It's been over twenty years since it last aired on television, and it has also been over ten years since he last did anything cinematic or TV-based, but both Twin Peaks and its creator David Lynch have returned to our screens at last. Born in 1946 and moving all across …

20/06/2017

Jack Monaghan

Movies

5 of the best comic book adaptations

This Friday sees the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 from the Marvel Cinematic Universe stable and onto screens. We seem to have come a long way since comic book and superhero adaptations first came into the cinematic conscious, from the 1920s and 30s with the likes of …

03/05/2017

Jack Monaghan

Movies

Love cult and classic cinema? Check out these 5 movies from Arrow

We've touched on numerous British film distributors over the past few months, including the BFI, StudioCanal's UK branch and Eureka's Masters of Cinema collection. Well, now it's time to talk about another UK distributor of films old and new, native and foreign, niche and mainstream. Of course we are talking …

06/04/2017

Jack Monaghan

Movies

Which movies will get their own rides at the UK's new Paramount theme park?

For today's post, I thought we'd do something (to quote Monty Python) completely different. Let's talk about theme parks, particularly movie-themed ones. We all know them, right? Disneyland, Universal Orlando, Disney-MGM and, if you want to be obscure, that Warner Bros theme park in Australia, with 20th Century Fox scheduled …

22/03/2017

Jack Monaghan

Movies

The best independent films released in 2017

In 2016, we were treated to aliens from another world, song-and-dance numbers, a quest in dealing with loss, the lives of the gay black community in the 305, Marvel continuing their winning streak and countless foreign language and documentary features, and 2017 definitely continued with that trend. However, this post …

08/03/2017

Jack Monaghan

Movies

A Brief History of The Oscars' Best Foreign Language Film Category

Next week, the results for the 89th Academy Awards will be in. So before we get to today's topic, I'll just give a brief summary of my predictions. La La Land to sweep, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, Fences, Zootropolis, Jackie, O.J.: Made in America, The Jungle Book and Toni …

22/02/2017

Jack Monaghan