Anchorman 2 trailer - need we say more?
Laurence Boyce on 19th June
OK, we will - Ron Burgundy is back.
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World War Z: little blood, fewer brains Cinema Reviews
Mike McCahill on 19th June / comments
Much-ballyhooed - yet equally long-delayed - this staggeringly expensive blockbuster, in which Brad Pitt’s UN specialist urgently ...
NO - potent political positivity, starring Gael García Bernal, £13.99 on DVD
Mike McCahill on 19th June
Pablo Larraín's Oscar-nominated drama centres on the real-life advertising whizz whose vision helped unseat Augusto Pinochet. It’s powerful, stirring cinema, says Mike McCahill.
Karlovy Vary to honour John Travolta
Laurence Boyce on 18th June / comments
48th edition of A-List festival to welcome Hollywood actor as it also hosts World Premiere of his latest film
1980s TV Sale - over 200 series from £5.99 each
18th June
Tune into a golden age of television. The 1980s was British television's peak, when expertly-written dramas rubbed shoulders with incisive and hilarious comedies. In the background, a series of changes and innovations took place – a fourth channel was ...
Offbeat: A vital alternative history of British cinema
James Oliver on 18th June / comments
James argues that this new book by Julian Upton is an essential read for lovers of British cinema, that will introduce to the reader many wonderful new films that the usual top 100s, canons, books, guides and critics ignore.
I Am Breathing: on the life and death of an architect
Mike McCahill on 18th June / comments
Architect Neil Platt was just 33 when he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. A poignantly brisk documentary from the Scottish Documentary Institute charts his final year with immense sensitivity, reports Mike McCahill.
Children's Film Foundation: Weird Adventures - £13.99 on DVD
Graeme Hobbs on 18th June
Contains The Boy who Turned Yellow (Powell & Pressburger, 1972), The Monster of Highgate Ponds (Cavalcanti, 1961), A Hitch in Time (Darnley-Smith, 1978). A fine volume, writes Graeme Hobbs.
Week 25: Roger Corman's The Terror, Jane Russell and Judy Holliday plus Basic Instinct
David Parkinson on 17th June / comments
Three thrilling tales from cinema's past - Roger Corman's The Terror (with an extraordinary range of uncredited directors), two actresses who share the same birthday - Jane Russell and Judy Holliday - plus the controversy behind Basic Instinct.
Trailer for Martin Scorsese's latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, arrives
Laurence Boyce on 17th June
Crime pic to star Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Matthew McConaughey.
Underground - acclaimed restoration of a silent classic, £13.99 on DVD+Blu-ray
Mike McCahill on 17th June
Anthony Asquith's subterranean tale of love, jealousy and murder, with a new score by Neil Brand. For sheer entertainment, its expressionist shadowplay is hard to beat, writes Mike McCahill.
Gary Oldman to direct second feature film
Laurence Boyce on 16th June
Actor set to direct biopic of photographer Eadweard Muybridge
Top 10 Arthouse Crime Films, with clips
15th June
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?" wrote Bertold Brecht in The Threepenny Opera, in which he explored his favourite highbrow themes within the setting of a penny dreadful melodrama. It's a trick many filmmakers have lea...
Perfect Friday - a breezy, mischievous crime caper, £13.99 on DVD+Blu-ray
Julian Upton on 15th June
There is plenty to enjoy in theatre-bred director Peter Hall's late '60s crime caper - not least Stanley Baker appearing in one of his last decent big-screen roles, writes Julian Upton.
