TIME’s 100 Most Influential People is not a poll by a random pop culture website to see which TV show has the biggest following. It’s not trying to find out which film couple is the most popular, which book character is the most liked, or which plot has been the […]

Hammer Films rarely produce a horror film that isn’t that scary. The Quiet Ones is the execption to their rule. In a way, however, Hammer Films does succeed in making an okay-ish film, despite its inherent lack of truly ‘jumpy’ moments. Sporting the ‘based on a true story’ tagline that […]

I know, I know, you were expecting a GUY to write this review, weren’t you? 300: Rise Of An Empire had big shoes to film. Its older brother 300, within months of its release, was seen as both a mainstream and a cult classic. Beautifully, poetically shot with some notable […]

On Thursday 27th March, Derren Lawford, London Live commissioner and former BBC Worldwide exec, will meet with some of the UK’s most talented young filmmakers and aspiring actors at Latimer Talks. The event, organised by award-winning youth engagement agency Latimer Group and promoted solely through social media, will see Lawford […]

The divisive film of 2014 may have just been released. (We are only three months in after all). Jonathan Glazer’s third feature length film, after the Oscar nominated Sexy Beast in 2000 and Birth four years later, Under The Skin is adapted from the Michael Faber novel of the same name published 14 years ago and […]

Just when we thought we saw the end of the space opera franchise in May 2005 with the final prequel Revenge Of The Sith and George Lucas’ ‘retirement’ in 2011. However, that all changed in October 2012 following Disney’s purchase of LucasFilm for $4 billion and the quick announcement of a Star Wars: […]

I have not seen many Wes Anderson films, I will admit. But whilst you load up your ammunition of derisive looks and low estimations of my cinema palate’s worth, allow me to offer that this enabled me to watch his latest offering The Grand Budapest Hotel without any expectation. And love […]

True Detective is without doubt the hottest series on TV right now, and it will certainly make for some interesting water-cooler conversations for at least a couple more weeks. The story initially seems formulaic. Two cops -troubled Rust Cohle, played by Matthew McConaughey and typical cop Marty Hart, played by […]