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Why Michael Keaton should watch Christopher Nolans Batman movies

Michael Keaton was a superb Batman, but in order to be the best, you have to be in the greatest Batman films and he wasnt Batman: the dark knight through the years – in pictures More from Week in geek You might think that as the actor who first portrayed Batman on the big screen in the modern era, Michael Keaton might have taken the time to sit down and watch the critically acclaimed recent …

October 10, 2014 No Comments

BT adds Sky Movies to growing TV package

Deal with British Sky Broadcasting will mean customers can watch more than 700 films by paying a monthly subscription BT TV customers will be able to watch recent box office hits including Django Unchained and Argo after the company struck a deal to show Sky Movies channels from 26 October.

April 6, 2014 No Comments

Children in cinema: never mind Nemo, what about finding some funding?

There’s more to childhood in the movies and real life than cute fish and happy endings.

April 5, 2014 No Comments

Charles Bradley: Soul Of America, out now on DVD

Charles Bradley: Soul Of America | Three Colours Trilogy | Leviathan | The Conjuring | Kick Ass 2 Reading this on mobile? Click here to view Charles Bradley: Soul Of America DVD, Daptone Timing and luck are easily as important as talent when considering the career of a performer.

March 30, 2014 No Comments

The Fifth Estate: out this week on Blu-ray

“It’s a sad indictment of The Fifth Estate that it proves most convincing when its central figure breaks the fourth wall” The Fifth Estate EOne, Blu-ray & DVD Movies about technology are always at least five years out of date, so it’s only fitting that it’s taken that long for The Fifth Estate â€“ Bill Condon’s occasionally diverting WikiLeaks romp, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as comedian Bill …

March 30, 2014 No Comments

Computer Chess, out this week on Blu-ray & DVD

‘Man and machine do battle in Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess, but only in the least dramatic context imaginable: a 1980s tech convention’ Reading this on mobile? Click here to view Spare a thought for the physical media purists as pop culture intensifies its blossoming courtship with online streaming.

February 1, 2014 No Comments

Christmas films: hobbits and fairies are festive fare at a screen near you

Seasonal movies aimed at families vie with more serious Oscar contenders as studios pitch their biggest hitters in cinemas Christmas has always been a busy time for the movies; with much of the world off work or school, there are rich pickings to be had. In the US, box office takings for the holiday season last year was more than Â£1.59bn â€“ approximately a quarter of its entire yearly revenue in …

December 29, 2013 No Comments

Top 10 music movies

From wild-haired rockers to joyful bolero singers, films with or about celebrated musicians have played a key part in the movies. Here, the Guardian and Observers’ critics pick the 10 finest â€¢ Top 10 silent movies â€¢ Top 10 sports movies â€¢ Top 10 film noir â€¢ Top 10 musicals â€¢ Top 10 martial arts movies â€¢ Top 10 biopics â€¢ More Guardian and Observer critics’ top 10s 10. Don’t Look Back DA …

December 24, 2013 No Comments

2013 DVD & Blu-ray round-up

Lifeforce | Dial M For Murder | Phantom Of The Opera | Mabuse The Gambler | Breaking Bad | Nosferatu | Arrow Reading this on mobile? Click here to view This year has seen many bigger companies appear to lose interest in the Blu-ray market, with no big box set or restoration projects to match last year’s Hitchcock or Universal Horror collections. Worse yet, the annoying and worrying trend of …

December 24, 2013 No Comments

Wolf Children, out this week on DVD & Blu-ray

Wolf Children | Misfits: Series 1-5 | Big Trouble In Little China | Elementary: Season 1 | Elysium Reading this on mobile? Click here to view It hasn’t been a banner year for animated movies. The not-as-good-as-the-first-one Despicable Me 2 cleaned up at the box office, while the offerings from the usually reliable Pixar and Ghibli, Monsters University and The Wind Rises, were good rather than …

December 16, 2013 No Comments

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