Diary Of A Bad Lad is a no holds barred, unflinching look at the British underground crime scene told through the eyes of a cinephile documentarian who finds him self in too deep with the subjects of his latest project. Having a limited five day release on the dailymotion.com website last year, Diary Of A Bad Lad [...]
There is a famous quote in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters in which Max Von Sydow’s character Frederick ponders aloud:
“You see the whole culture. Nazis, deodorant salesmen, wrestlers, beauty contests, a talk show. Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling?”
To Frederick it is baffling anyone would waste their time [...]
The Mighty Boosh is the epitome of a polarising comedy. Those who loves the series are insatiable for the adventures of Howard Moon, Vince Noir and the eccentric supporting cast that includes a tiny shaman and a talking gorilla. The camp who avoid the show are those left cold by the idea of a wild [...]
Radio Norfolk’s favourite presenter, Alan Partridge, is finally moving out of his Travel Lodge hotel room to relocate to the States. Steve Coogan, whilst talking to Empire, revealed that his much loved comic creation will make the move across the pond for a big screen feature due to be written next year. Despite Coogan have [...]
In a busy pre-Christmas period, this weekend saw a series of ceremonies celebrating the film industry take place all over the world.
In the United Kingdom, Duncan Jones was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards. David Bowie’s son, the erstwhile Zowie Bowie, picked up prizes including Best Debut Director and Best [...]
After a long and distinguished career, Michael Caine has announced his retirement from lead film roles aiming to instead focus on supporting parts. Having burst on to the film scene with the likes of Get Carter and Zulu, the erstwhile Mr Micklewhite has been an enduring screen personality in fare ranging from Jaws: The Revenge [...]
Just a few days back Robert Carlyle used the Scottish BAFTAs as a platform to voice his displeasure of the British film industry. There have been no decent films produced here, he said, since Trainspotting.
Studying Carlyle’s words, he has a point; the cinematic output of Great Britain primarily regurtiates the same type of film over [...]
The iconic, cool black and white stills of Renton, Sick Boy and Begbie that adorned the posters of student bedrooms up and down the United Kingdom in 1996 seemed to signal the beginnings of a new era for British cinema. Highly-stylized, slick, vibrant, vital, Danny Boyle’s adaptation of Irving Welsh’s Trainspotting, a tome chronicling the [...]
