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...]
September 13th, 2011
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.
September 9th, 2011
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...]
September 8th, 2011
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...]
September 6th, 2011
“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...]
September 5th, 2011
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...]
August 26th, 2011
The cult Spanish film director reveals his affection for Robert Mapplethorpe, James Blake and Vicky Pollard. [Read more...]
August 25th, 2011
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
August 19th, 2011