Reviews on the Best UK Movies of All Time
Top British Films
Director: Josh Mond 18, 84 mins, 29 February UK (VOD/DVD release) RATING: ★★★☆☆ Out now on VOD and DVD, James White is the debut film of writer/director Josh Mond, who was the producer of Simon Killer and Martha Marcy May Marlene. That is not a bad filmmaking pedigree, and James White bears a great of […]
Director: Magnus von Horn 15 | 1h 42min | Drama | 11 March 2016 (UK) RATING: ★★★☆☆ This debut from Writer/director Magnus von Horn is a Swedish/Polish collaboration and saw involvement from dogme co-founder Lars von Trier. Von Horn’s film certainly feels like it has swum in those Scandinavian waters, being an austere, precise and very […]
WEDNESDAY 30th March. Phoenix Artist’s Club. Doors 7PM Films Start 8PM Show Ends 11PM FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT. The Duke Mitchell FIlm Club is celebrating the 100th Duke Night with an Early April Fools’ Special! See details below: The 100th night couldn’t fall on a more appropriate evening as our Early April Fools’ special is […]
Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to London from 10-17 March, with Curzon Soho hosting the opening night film Hooligan Sparrow, a documentary following activists on the run in China. Director Nanfu Wang, an independent filmmaker based in New York City, follows a group of activists protesting the alleged rape of six girls by a school […]
Out from 22 Feb 2016 UK Order American Horror Project Vol 1 in the UK Those purveyors of fine re-releases of yesterday’s forgotten classics – Arrow Films, have outdone themselves again with this new collection: The American Horror Project Vol 1. The goal behind the release of this dual format Blu-ray + DVD set is […]
You can catch Hitchcock/Truffaut as it plays on extended run at the BFI until March 16 . You are also recommended to grab a copy from the BFI shop of the superb and concise official BFI Hitchcock book: 39 Steps to the Genius of Hitchcock. And don’t forget a copy of Hitchcock/Truffaut: the book itself. If, like this writer, […]
BABYLON + DJ set Wednesday 6 April • Cert 15 Book your tickets here. Stanley’s Film Club present a screening of the reggae-infused drama BABYLON (Franco Rosso; 1980; Certificate 15) a gritty cult drama starring Brinsley Forde of the reggae band Aswad. The film today stands as a vibrant time capsule of a time and […]
small tribute season at The Prince Charles Cinema, to the late French director and nouvelle vague legend: PARIS BELONGS TO US (35mm) Monday 7th March 20:40 CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING (35mm) Wednesday 30th March 20:00 OUT 1: PARTS 1 & 2 Saturday 2nd April 14:00 OUT 1: PARTS 3 & 4 Saturday 9th […]
Director: James Vanderbilt R | 2h 5min | Biography, Drama | 4 March 2016 (UK) RATING: ★★☆☆☆ James Vanderbilt’s Truth – a dramatisation of the retracted 60 Minutes news expose into the alleged draft dodging of President Bush during the 2004 presidential election – arrives into UK cinemas at a propitious time. Another “journalism movie” […]