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...]

Culture,Film

My Big Fat Gypsy Fistfight

My Big Fat Gypsy Fistfight

“Knuckle”, a new documentary about an age-old feud between two traveller families, is not by any stretch a polished film. In fact, it’s not even a particularly gripping film. Structured around a decade of repetitively bleak bare-knuckle dust-ups between the Quinn McDonaghs and the Joyces, who slug it out in muddy car parks and country lanes from Oxford to Dundalk, trying to determine once and for all – well, no one quite remembers what. [Read more...]

Culture,Film,Women we love

Can we all please stop hating on Anne Hathaway

Can we all please stop hating on Anne Hathaway

So, Anne Hathaway plays Emma Morley in One Day. This, according to some fans of David Nicholls’ stupendously popular book of the same name about the will-they-won’t-they friendship between a Yorkshire lass and a Cotswolds posho, is not a good thing. [Read more...]

Film

The stuff that made me – Pedro Almodóvar

The stuff that made me – Pedro Almodóvar

The cult Spanish film director reveals his affection for Robert Mapplethorpe, James Blake and Vicky Pollard. [Read more...]

Culture,Film

The Inbetweeners have a new ride

The Inbetweeners have a new ride

Having flogged Simon’s appropriately vomit-yellow Fiat Cinquecento from the TV series to raise £21,000 for Comic Relief in March, The Inbetweeners were in need of a new set of wheels for their new movie. The teenage clunge-enthusiasts hit Crete on a lads’ holiday (“lads” being the loosest of terms). As you can see, they opted for paddles instead — less good for cruising down the Malia strip — but in the right colour and with what will no doubt prove to be easy-to-wipe-down surfaces. The Inbetweeners Movie is out today