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Frying tonight!
Though based in High Wycombe ,the Third Edition of the highly independent Fisheye Film Festival ventures to nearby Beaconsfield tonight with a special screening inside the cinema of the famed National...
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Russian about Town
It could hardly be a more topical time, given the international brouhahas in the media about Soviet cyberhacking and the alleged,well-funded if unsubtle interference of Putinistas in elections around...
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Polishing up Polish Cinema
Easter comes early to the not-so-United Kingdom this year, and so has KINOTEKA which has brought for its 16th annual Edition a cornucopia of features, shorts and documentaries of Polish provenance or...
View ArticleCherchez les Femmes!
In such grim times, and with such over-budgeted but under-scripted movies hurtling into cinemas around the globe, what a delight Picturehouses brought across the troubled British Isles last night with...
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SERET:Sabras a go go
While much of the international film world was cavorting across the Croisette, confused and often rain-swept, and desperately seeking empowerment for female cineastes on and off the screens of the...
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Figures in a LANDSCAPE Exhibition
As part of the celebrations marking its 250th anniversary as a teaching venue, the Royal Academy on London's Piccadilly has undergone some extensive, if not eccentric , renovations and refurbishing of...
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A rage on the stage
"It's the pictures that got small" snarled Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. But that small screen in the corner of rooms around the world screening Game of Thrones ensures a...
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Marlene sings the Blue
No, they certainly do not make them like this anymore, nor like Her.A very willkommen benefit of the two--month season of cinema marking the centenary of the Weimar Republic at the BFI Southbank in...
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"Raindance means Raindance"
If it's Tuesday, it must be Raindance, or at least if the 22nd August then a double helping of events to launch and promote the 2019 edition of the most independent, idiosyncratic and...
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Film Career of Korea
The 14th London Korean Film Festival opens tonight as a celebration marking the centenary of film-making in Korea in the aptly-chosen historic Regent Street Cinema, wthere the freres Lumiere first...
View ArticleBerlinale Blues
Life is change, but as the Dalai Lama says, the Lightbub has to want to change. New dates, new directors, new directions, and what changing temperatures during this 70th edition of one of the most...
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Walt chez Wallace
It may seem an unusual collaboration, to house an exquisite exhibition illuminating some of the inspirations for Walt Disney's early animated shorts and more recent, internationally successful...
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Oxford Gin & Media Tonics
First held in London in 2016,The Media Production & Technology Show has clearly become the UK's largest annual event for broadcast and film-making companies to showcase their wares and latest...
View Article"The play's the thing"
There have been at least 50 film versions of what is probably William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy Hamlet. There were a goodly number of silent screen shorts, and many celebrated features, most...
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AMERICAN STAR A shore thing
AMERICAN STAR is an engaging contemporary thriller, well-directed by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, colourful, intriguing and enhanced by some unexpected star turns.Ian McShane- another 81-year-old!- excels as...
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