Film, Top Fives

Five to watch – London Film Festival

Five to watch – London Film Festival

As the 55th London Film Festival kicks off, we’ve picked out a mere five films (there are 300+ in the programme so we have to be realistic) that we’re looking forward to catching over the next few weeks. For full listings go to www.bfi.org.uk/lff/ [Read more...]

Culture, Film

Ryan Gosling – the Fonze of Film?

Ryan Gosling – the Fonze of Film?

In Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s new film, Drive, Ryan Gosling plays Driver. No, not James Driver, not Danny Driver, not Jean-Claude Van Driver, just Driver. Because, you know, that’s what he does. In the daytime he does it as a Hollywood stuntman; after hours, he hires out his sweet clutch control to the highest bidding bank robber. And how does he drive? He drives cool. [Read more...]

Film, Style

The greatest shoe never made?

The greatest shoe never made?

Everyone remembers the scene from Back To The Future II when Marty McFly gets his hands on a pair of Nike Mag shoes when he time travels to 2015. Well, this mythical pair is now a reality. [Read more...]

Film

The festival – Kicking and screening

The festival – Kicking and screening

As the routine of a new football season already kicks in (has it only been 4 weeks?), what better way to complement the standard Premiership fare with London’s first ever international football film festival. [Read more...]

Culture, Film

Supernatural trend of the month: Trolls

Supernatural trend of the month: Trolls

As cinema audiences — specifically ones made up of rabid teenage girls — tire of pretty-boy vampires and hunky werewolves, the search is on for the new gothic beast to set prepubescent pulses racing. Somehow, we doubt that these fellas will swing it. [Read more...]

Competitions, Film

Win a suit and a Scarface limited edition steel-book edition Blu-ray

Win a suit and a Scarface limited edition steel-book edition Blu-ray

Telling the story of Cuban refugee Tony Montana’s rise and fall in the Miami underworld, Scarface has more magic moments than a family pack of Quality Street. To mark the long-awaited release this week of this 1983 classic on Triple play Blu-ray, we’re not only giving away a limited edition Steel Book edition but are throwing a hand-tailored suit courtesy of A Suit That Fits in for good measure.

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Features, Film

The confessions of Colin Farrell

The confessions of Colin Farrell

On sex: “When you’re having more one-night stands in a week than there are nights in a week, something is out of whack in the universe.” [Read more...]

Culture, Film

Seven reasons why 3D cinema is doomed

Seven reasons why 3D cinema is doomed

Everyone’s favourite bequiffed film critic Mark Kermode has seen the future of cinema – and it’s flat, flat, flat. Here he explains why. [Read more...]