Karen Young (Birdy, Heat) gives a powerfully intense performance as a victim of sexual
violence who turns vigilante in this cult female revenge thriller, Handgun. Written,…
After the success of football terrace gangster flick The Rise And Fall Of A White Collar
Hooligan, director Paul Tanter (Fall Of The Essex Boys, Jack Falls) is back with the DVD…
Our darkly comic odyssey is drawing to a close. Fear not, though, the final instalment of
my best of British and Irish black comedy list features uncomfortable laughter aplentyR…
There are films that leave you scratching your head, replaying moments, wondering where
the last two hours went. The film didn’t feel like a break, did it? It wouldn’t when…
Iron Sky director Timo Vuorensola has announced
that a sequel to the popular sci-fi action comedy
is to go into production. Currently titled Iron
Sky: The Coming Race, the story will follow on
from the climax of the first film, which saw the
world’s nuclear powers descend into all-out war
over the deposits of helium-3 o… read more...
Pre-production has begun on Postpartum,
Denmark’s first body horror film, and a
crowdfunding campaign has been launched to fund
its production. Mixing low-key drama with surreal
and grotesque body horror, Postpartum (a term for
the time just after childbirth) tells the story of
a young couple who come across… read more...
Artificial Eye have announced that a duo of Atom
Egoyan’s films will be re-released on Blu-ray
and DVD in June 2013. 10th June sees the Blu-ray
release of Egoyan’s debut feature Next Of Kin.
Catatonically unhappy with his family life, Peter
Foster undergoes video therapy with his parents.
One day, while studying tapes a… read more...
Arrow Video is pleased to announce the highly
anticipated UK Blu-ray & Steelbook premiere of
Brian De Palma’s 1981 classic Blow Out on May
27th 2013. Starring John Travolta, John Lithgow
and Nancy Allen, Blow Out is one of Brian De
Palma’s most acclaimed and best-loved films.
This release features a newly r… read more...
Verve Pictures have announced that Reis Çelik’s
latest world cinema release, Night Of Silence (Lal
Gece), will open in selected cinemas nationwide on
28th June 2013. The film was the winner of the
Crystal Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival and
The Golden Wings Digital Digiturk Distribution
Award at the London Turkish Fil… read more...
The splendidly eccentric final collaboration from
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (the British
writing-directing-producing duo behind such as
classic as Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes) is
one of three films featured on a new volume of
Children’s Film Foundation tales, released on
DVD by the BFI on 17th June 20… read more...
Following short films/visual essays such as Erni
and Beijing Holiday, Austrian born artist Edgar
Honetschäger makes his first foray into feature
length cinema with AUN: The Beginning And The End
Of All Things. Employing elements of sci-fi and
fantasy filmmaking, AUN approaches one of the most
pertinent issues in modern cine… read more...
Almodóvar’s debut, a provocative comedy
about three bizarre women, appalled critics across
Spain and the USA. It was first shown at the San
Sebastian Film Festival and later acquired cult
status in the independent film scene. It created
the basis for the director’s future work.
Set in Madrid during the punk p… read more...
One of Luc Besson’s earliest cinematic
accomplishments, Nikita went on to spawn an
American and a Hong Kong remake, as well as
various television shows in different forms, the
most recent featuring Maggie Q as the titular
femme fatale. Not considered to be the film that
launched Luc Besson to intern… read more...
For Love’s Sake was screened as part of
Derby QUAD’s Satori Screen programme, a
monthly evening showcasing East Asian cinema, on
Friday 10th May, 2013. Shown not only as part of
Derby QUAD’s monthly Satori Screen event but
the venue’s annual film festival weekend –
iDFest (whose cinematic theme t… read more...
Just when you thought that Scandinavia had been
bled dry of all its TV drama, along come more
crime mysteries to entice the British public. Van
Veeteren is a series of TV films based on a
popular series of novels by Swedish author Håkan
Nesser, three of the later of which are collected
here. Beginning with DCI Van… read more...
Claude Chabrol’s New Wave drama Les Cousins
re-visits the age old stereotypes of the bad boy
versus the nice guy. The world cinema film was
made about a year after Chabrol’s debut, Le Beau
Serge, winning the Golden Bear at the 1959 Berlin
Festival and attracting massive audiences. This
character study explores the da… read more...
Our darkly comic odyssey is drawing to a close.
Fear not, though, the final instalment of my best
of British and Irish black comedy list features
uncomfortable laughter aplenty… Wild
Bill (UK, 2011) Dexter Fletcher’s directorial
debut sees a wrong-doer (the criminally overlooked
Charlie Creed-Miles) leave pris… read more...
There are films that leave you scratching your
head, replaying moments, wondering where the last
two hours went. The film didn’t feel like a
break, did it? It wouldn’t when you’re
spending the whole time trying to make sense of
everything. Maybe you need to see it again to put
your mind at ease. Ultimately… read more...
Vincent Price, ‘The King of Horror’, has
always held a special place in my affections. And
I’m not the only one; Vincent Price is more than
just a popular actor – he is, undeniably, a
cult icon. In this article, I’m going to take a
look at some of the different qualities that
appeal to Price’s (occasional… read more...
Welcome to the second part of my expedition into
the black heart of British and Irish comedy
filmmaking. We’ve got five more films to get
through, so come on in – the water may be deep
and black, but it’s not all doom and
gloom… Four Lions (UK, 2010) Four
Lions is a biting satire about… read more...
As this series has already shown, in the face of a
plunge in government funding for the arts,
numerable writers, directors, producers,
cinematographers etc. lashed back, often with
Margaret Thatcher directly in their sights. That
is not to say all great films were produced solely
by the companies mentioned in t… read more...
May I Kill U? is a jet-black comedy from
writer-director Stuart Urban featuring TV comedy
star Kevin Bishop as Baz, a London bicycle police
officer who, following a head injury during the
2011 London riots, becomes a cycle-mounted
vigilante offing villainous scumbags, whose
demises are filmed via helmet-c… read more...
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