Duane Hopkins ByPass is a movie about a world so far from the one we’re used to see on screen to seem almost unreal. ByPass is a story about youth, but not the happy-green British youth; this movie is about the other youth, the marginalized one. Tim (talented rising star George MacKay, Private Peaceful, Pride,…
Story of a young squaddie lost on the street of Belfast during the Troubles, ’71 (9 BIFA nominations), the new Yann Demage (Top Boy) movie is a thriller based in an almost Apocaliptic Belfast, even if we are in the 1970. The RUC house to house search becomes a conflict that also involves women and…
The Centrepiece Gala at the London Film Festival is a careful, shaded and forthright adaptation of the memoir written by Vera Brittain about her First World War memories; a strong and stunning woman as she showed to the world at the London Premiere of Testament of Youth (watch the trailer). Vera is rebellious in her…
After Cell 211, the Spanish director Daniel Monzon (Men’s Health Espana Best Cinema Director 2014 yesterday evening) is ready to show the world that if his work is marvellous in a one-small space set, it becomes absolutely terrific in an open-space one. The great thing is we are not talking about a common open space, but…
David Ayer‘s gripping tank drama FURY is set in Germany in April 1945 during Hitler’s Total War and follows the battle hardened crew of a Sherman tank as the Allies make their final push to defeat the Nazis. The movie starts with a man on a white fairy-tale horse who emerges from a bank of…
The BFI London Film Festival opens its 12 days with a British masterpiece by Norwegian director Morten Tyldum about the Bletchley Park – Enigma cracking mission during the Second World War. Benedict Cumberbatch (who, just two days after the closing of the festival, had the honor of seeing his statue exhibited in the famous museum…
The Theory of Everything is the inspirational biopic about the story of the great British physicist Stephen Hawking (a superb Eddie Redmayne) and his life marked by a motor neuron disease. By his side, his first wife (the stunning and wonderful Felicity Jones) and her incredible but tireless devotion to him for 25 years of…
After the romantic One Day, Lone Scherfig arrives at the Toronto International Film Festival ready to impress the audience with the appetizing The Riot Club (watch the trailer). Based on Laura Wade play Posh, the movie tells the story of the young Oxford members of an elite student dining society. As the movie’s poster says…
Standing ovation and 10 minutes of applause at the 71st Venice International Film Festival for Theeb with Londoner Jack Fox. The Jordan movie, Naji Abu Nowar debut, in competition in the Orizzonti (Horizons) section has won audiences hearts and found an almost certain Italian distribution. Theeb tells the story of a boy who is living,…
Noah‘s English actor Douglas Booth will be Charles Bingley in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The movie, based on Seth Grahame-Smith novel is the Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England, faced with a new challen: an army of undead zombies. Written by David…
After The Fault in Our Stars, is another teen-movie (adaptation of the novel for young adults If I Stay, born from the pen of Gayle Forman) to tear tears at the cinema. Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz) is shy, she is “someone” just in the room with her only love..her cello. But this is Mia before…
On the eve of the highly anticipated movie If I stay( review here), adaptation of the novel written by Gayle Forman) release, we met Jamie Blackley to talk about his character, Adam, and much more. Jamie arrives with a check shirt and a pair of ankle boots worn on the tip. Adam is part of a rock…
World Premiere at the FrightFest 2014 for the short movie Goblin? Goblin? is a seven minutes long thriller that has as main characters The Borgias’ couple David Oakes (Love by Design, The White Queen) and Holliday Grainger (The Riot Club, Great Expectations). Written by Matt Brothers, directed by Christian James and produced by Emma Biggins…
A terrible but most shocking news is spreading quickly around the world in the last few minutes. Robin Williams was found dead at his home in the day Monday, August 11 at the age of 63. According to early rumors it would be suicide by asphyxiation. The actor had accompanied two generations of young people…
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