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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

The Isis propaganda war: a high-tech media jihad

Isis is using techniques plundered from movies, video games and news channels to spread its message. Who is masterminding the operation and what is the best way to counter it? In 1941, Hollywood director Frank Capra was commissioned to make a series of propaganda films for the US war effort

October 8, 2014 No Comments

Kate Bush to release DVD of her London comeback shows

Ticketholders for two shows receive email telling them their seats have been changed to accommodate film crews Alexis Petridis reviews Before the Dawn Kate Bush: the queen of art-pop who defied her critics Kate Bush is reportedly planning a concert film based on her London comeback shows, Before the Dawn. Fans were apparently asked to change seats at the Eventim Apollo theatre in order to …

September 11, 2014 No Comments

A Farewell To Arms: a great movie but a terrible adaptation

After Graham Greene died, the movies atoned by re-filming his best books.

May 26, 2014 No Comments

The top 10 animated movies, as chosen by our critics

Moving bits of paper around (the old way) or painting with billions of pixels (the new) has conjured up some of the greatest films of all time. From The Iron Giant to Persepolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best â€¢ Top 10 war movies â€¢ Top 10 teen movies â€¢ Top 10 superhero movies â€¢ Top 10 westerns â€¢ Top 10 documentaries â€¢ Top 10 movie adaptations â€¢ More Guardian and Observer critics …

April 15, 2014 No Comments

Charlie Lyne's home entertainment

This week’s best DVD releases Upstream Colour Blu-ray & DVD, Metrodome First acts are overrated. All too often, the first third of a movie is a narrative non-starter â€“ a barren storytelling tundra hospitable only to weak expositional dialogue and lazy stock characters, easing us into a film like toddlers steered into naptime by a particularly over-explanatory lullaby. Taking the rare editorial …

April 9, 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

White Dog, out now on Blu-ray

‘White Dog is an angry, didactic take on a subject more commonly handled at arm’s length’ Long gone are the days when budding cinephiles would seek out new discoveries by gazing up at the marquee of their local nickelodeon and hoping against hope for a Capra retrospective or anything else that might offer a counterpoint to the paltry stream of new releases otherwise on offer.

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

Top 10 martial arts movies

Everybody is kung-fu fighting for sure, but it takes more than that to make a great martial arts movie. The Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 finest ever made â€¢ Top 10 movie adaptations â€¢ Top 10 animated movies â€¢ Top 10 silent movies â€¢ Top 10 sports movies â€¢ Top 10 film noir â€¢ Top 10 musicals â€¢ More Guardian and Observer critics’ top 10s 10.