“Miral is a red flower that grows on the side of the road. You’ve probably seen millions of them”. The opening line to Rula Jebreal’s screenplay – directed by Julian Schnabel and based on Jebreal’s autobiographical novel of the same name – sums up the fact that this is a story about one girl of [...]

‘The King’s Speech’ has already won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and is surely set to win many more. Set from 1925-1939, Tom Hooper’s ‘The King’s Speech’ is the story of how a reluctant and introverted Albert (Colin Firth), known as Bertie by those dearest to him, rises to [...]

The internet was all of a flutter yesterday as a tiny piece about the use of iPads in Hollywood mentioned a meeting which took place with writers and producers of the second Star Trek movie in its newest incarnation.  Here is the quotation, lifted from the New York Times. “[Robert] Orci, meeting with the producers [...]

Some of Essex’s finest are ‘’dolling’’ themselves up for the TV crews of ITV2, in a bid to become the newest reality socialites since The Hills. The new reality show premiered on Sunday, with a double bill, and what a performance. A whopping 1.5 million of us were glued to the screen and before the [...]

In the first press conference of this year’s London Film Festival, we find out from Director Mark Romanek the pressures of making a very British movie, screenwriter Alex Garland on how he adapted the book and novelist Kazuo Ishiguro on why the screen adaptation of his novel ‘Never Let Me Go’ was a “wonderful revelation”. [...]

“You are a good man but, you have a secret”, says an intuitive prostitute (Violante Placido) to a mysterious American, George Clooney. Anton Corbijn’s ‘The American’, an adaptation of Martin Booth’s Novel ‘A Very Private Gentleman’ is the tale of one man’s struggle to resist merging what he does with who he is. And what [...]

Leap Year, Michael Rowe’s debut feature film – which earned him the Camera D’Or at Cannes this year – is a graphic tale of Laura (Monica del Carmen) , an isolated woman living in Mexico City. Aside from the opening scene, we are confined to the four walls of her apartment where we voyeuristically witness her everyday life [...]

   In Jeanne Labrune’s tale of psychology and prostitution, a dry-humoured Alice Bergerac (Isabelle Huppert) goes through the motions of realising that antique fruit bowls and expensive chandeliers are not worth laying down the pipes for (you’ll get it when you see it). With more costumes than a Hallowe’en party, Alice offers an array of [...]

The 54th London Film Festival begins today and promises a host of screenings and events which will bring the world’s great film makers to the capital. Already sold out are events like Darren Aronofsky’s Q a& A about his work, including ‘Requiem for a Dream’ and ‘The Wrestler’, and a special workshop on adapting novels for the screen.  The festival’s [...]

The talent behind Joss Whedon’s now very cancelled Dollhouse have created this little music video, viewable below, to mark Dollhouse being released on DVD. It’s an awesomely shot, totally disturbing and very cool new look at owning something beautiful you never see the value in, and then throwing it away. Kind of like getting cancelled, [...]

The CW’s Vampire Diaries has been killing it on Thursday  nights since its second season began airing in September. To reward fans, stars Candice Accola (Caroline) and Ian Somerhalder (Damon) appeared at a Hot Topic store in Dallas to sign autographs and answer at a Q & A for fans. On Twitter britt3015 reported from [...]

It’s the second episode of our shiny new podcast about television. Which means we’ve aired as much as Lonestar.  Poor, poor Lonestar. This week Kirsty and Kevin whittle on about the latest episode of Glee, “Grilled Cheesus”.  Oh Chris Colfer, we love you.  Then we watch NBC’s “Outsourced” and talk about Vampire Diaries.  And Kevin [...]

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Ratings are sometimes cruel.  They can lead to a show you love leaving you.  They can also lead to situations where we question how such a good show could possibly fail, why, when all our friends watch it, the rest of the world seems indifferent. You may find the following report disturbing… The Event – NBC Will it stick? According [...]

It’s the first ever episode of our shiny new podcast about television. And because we’re not on FOX, we might last more than 2 episodes. Just Kirsty Walker and Kevin Beaumont as we explore what went wrong with FOX Broadcasting Corp’s Lonestar, our thoughts on this weeks new episode of Glee season two, and take apart [...]

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