Month: December 2015

Smoke Screen’s Top Ten Films of 2015

*Note that only films which had a 2015 general or limited release in UK cinemas or on VOD are eligible. This therefore excludes some festival films which have yet to be released. 10:  Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Director: Alex Gibney): Alex Gibney’s typically thorough documentary, adapted from the book by Lawrence […]

Film Season Review: Rock in Reykjavik and the Barbican’s Never Mind the Baubles anti-Christmas Punk film season

If you don’t much like idea of sitting through endless marathons of Christmas heart-warmers like It’s a Wonderful Life and Scrooged (and if you don’t, what’s wrong with you?) the Barbican Cinema have just the counter-seasonal programming medicine this December. Their Never Mind the Baubles season celebrates the glory of punk on film, from GG […]

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