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 …
After Graham Greene died, the movies atoned by re-filming his best books.
High-street DVD and game hire chain enters administration for second time in a year, with 2,000 jobs on the line Blockbuster, the games and DVD rental chain, is set to enter administration for the second time this year in a move that will put 2,000 jobs at risk. The business was one of the most high-profile casualties of a retail industry cull at the beginning of the year, when the HMV music …
US illustrator Leanne Shapton’s new book is a highly entertaining collection of black and white watercolours based on classic film stills, arranged to suggest a whole new narrative… Leanne Shapton is a superbly talented and exceedingly well-connected New York-based illustrator and author – from 2008 to 2009 she was the art director of the New York Times op-ed page – who turns out surprising and …
Yippee-ki-yay! It’s action-movie time! rom Die Hard to Deliverance, here’s what the Guardian and Observer’s critics think are the 10 best ever made. Let us know what you think in the comments below • Top 10 romantic movies Peter Bradshaw on action movies In some ways, it should be the quintessential cinema genre. After all, what does the director shout at the beginning of a take?
He’s made five movies this year alone and they’re all bad, but this Christmas might bring his Alien Vs Predator moment So let’s ask ourselves, since his supposed “return to form” a year ago in David O Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook : how’s Robert De Niro been doing? Was that movie the harbinger of some late-flowering, crepuscular blaze of glory, mirroring in old age the sunburst that was his …
‘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.
There’s more to childhood in the movies and real life than cute fish and happy endings.
“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 – Bill Condon’s occasionally diverting WikiLeaks romp, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as comedian Bill …
‘Why audiences might prefer to watch his oeuvre – a 40-year mass of frequently explicit sex films – at home rather than at the multiplex, is an enigma that may never be unravelled’ Though few of his films have secured UK cinema releases since his notorious sex-and-sandals epic Caligula sent British authorities into the mother of all censorship tizzes in 1979, self-proclaimed Italian “master of …