Best small and independent cinemas
Rich MixRich Mix in Shoreditch is a multi-functional arts venue that includes a cinema, in an old textiles factory near the top of Brick Lane.
View ArticleFive best cinemas for food
There are few more satisfying combinations than food and film - eye candy and actual candy. We’re not talking about the wallet-melting megacombos of the multiplexes though - try one of these inspired...
View ArticleGourmet cinema experience
As the weather turns it back on us once again, and alfresco cinema screenings seem less appealing, the Lounge at Whitely's in Bayswater might be just the ticket for foodie film buffs.
View ArticleLovely bubbly: take a dip at the Hot Tub Cinema
Try out the latest exciting development on the London cinema scene - the Hot Tub Cinema.
View ArticleThe Dark Knight Rises - review
A tricky business, reviewing The Dark Knight Rises. In the States, writers who have criticised the film have not only been flamed by outraged fans, they have received death threats. The review...
View ArticleWhere to watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony in London
BT LONDON LIVE OPENING CEREMONY CONCERTHyde Park, W2There are still tickets to see Duran Duran, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics and Paolo Nutini get the mass-screening party started. From 4pm; £60; 0844 844...
View ArticleThe Bourne Legacy - review
It’s a waste of breath complaining about Hollywood’s dependency on sequels and reboots. The first three Bourne films grossed a total of $945 million ($443 million alone for The Bourne Ultimatum). No...
View ArticleMexFest at Rich Mix: a mini-festival celebrating Mexican cinematography
As the Olympics fade the East End is set to experience a colourful aftershock this weekend when Mexfest hits Rich Mix in Shoreditch. The focus is mainly on film, and for anyone whose image of Mexican...
View ArticleFilm of the week: Shadow Dancer - review
The director of this film, James Marsh, who has previously made the documentaries Man on Wire and Project Nim and one of the TV films in the Red Riding series, took against the subject matter when he...
View ArticleGuilty Pleasures - the ultimate cinema party
Get into the groove and strike a pose at this screening of that gloriously 80s Madonna film - Desperately Seeking Susan.
View ArticleTed — review
It’s 1985 and a lonely little boy gets a great big teddy for Christmas which can say the words “I love you” in a childish voice. “I wish you could really talk,” John whispers to the bear in bed that...
View ArticleThe Wedding Video - review
Considering this is written and directed by the same team who made Calendar Girls (Tim Firth and Nigel Cole), this wedding comedy ought to be funnier and more lively than it is.There is, however, a...
View ArticleTake this Waltz - review
Ladies! Here’s a dilemma you might like. Two guys are crazy about you. One of them, your hubby, is not such a looker but he’s fun, kind, always joking, a keen cook, has a lively extended family and is...
View ArticleThe Expendables 2 - review
The great thing about Simon West’s Expendables sequel is that its bevy of action stars, led by Sylvester Stallone, know how to send themselves up. “Looks like it ought to be in a museum,” Sly says of...
View ArticleCircumstance - review
This brave Iranian film, the debut of director Maryam Keshavarz, won the Audience Award at Sundance but is never likely to be shown in Tehran. Though specifically an exposure of Iranian youth culture,...
View ArticlePetit Nicolas - review
This French comedy, based on the best-selling illustrated books of Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny, may be an acquired taste for the British, who sometimes find Gallic charm a bit treacly. But...
View ArticleFuture Cinema presents Grease under the stars
Calling all pupils at Rydell High! Please enrol for the new school term! This is your invitation to Future Cinema's (the creators of Secret Cinema) latest immersive movie screening: an all-singing,...
View ArticleEmilia Fox launches Disaronno Film Series 2012
Favourite British actress Emilia Fox has come together with the quintessential Italian liqueur, Disaronno, to curate a selection of cult BAFTA-winning films at Picturehouse cinemas across the UK.
View ArticleDredd - review
Back in 1995, Sylvester Stallone attempted to bring 2000AD’s ruthless law-enforcer Judge Dredd to life. The action-film that followed was sprawling, spoofy and, as far as fans were concerned,...
View ArticleAnna Karenina - review
It’s a bit opaque how it happened. Joe Wright, the director of this new adaptation of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, had been scouting locations in Russia but just two months before filming began, he decided...
View ArticleCatch it while you can... the Nomad cinema
If you want to make the most of the great outdoors before the weather’s inevitable turn for the worst, then get your picnics, wine and blankets ready and head over to The Nomad’s pop-up cinema.
View ArticleHope Springs - review
When watching films starring A-list actresses, I like to play a game I call “the moxie test”. It’s a way to sort the foxes from the foils (moxie being an old-timey American word for unquenchable vim)....
View ArticleKilling Them Softly - review
Killing Them Softly is only the third film directed by Andrew Dominik, an Australian director now in his mid-forties. His first, Chopper, about a real-life violent criminal, starring Eric Bana, won him...
View ArticleBicycle Film Festival at the Barbican Centre
Still burning with pride over this summer’s British bike bonanza? Fancy yourself as a bit of a Wiggo or a Vicky Pendleton? Then grab your fixed-gear, road-racer, sit-up-and-beg or BMX and feed your...
View ArticleThe Perks of Being a Wallflower - review
By definition, rites of passage can’t be original. If they’re not common, they’re not rites. The Perks of Being a Wallflower isn’t just another coming-of-age movie, it’s a kind of compendium of them...
View ArticleOn the Road, Cert 15, 124 mins - review
It's extraordinary how inert literary adaptations are, by and large. On the Road, completed by Jack Kerouac in 1951, supposedly in a three-week burst of inspiration but actually after years of toil,...
View ArticleBritish Horror Film Festival 2012
One day of Halloween not enough for you? Start the fear weeks ahead this year with two days and nights of terror at the British Horror Film Festival.
View ArticleTen best Halloween cinema screenings
1. Halloween @ Prince Charles Cinema, October 20-31
View ArticleSkyfall, Cert 12A, 143 mins - review
The best Bond ever — that’s what people are saying, rolling up this 50th anniversary of Bond on film with all the other great British successes of 2012. An exaggeration?
View ArticleThe Master, Cert 15, 144 mins - review
No recent movie has opened up such a big divide between critics and paying cinema audiences as The Master. In the US the film garnered rave reviews but cinemagoers have stayed away or, reportedly,...
View ArticleRust and Bone, Cert 15, 120 mins - review
Jacques Audiard’s film, based on two short stories by Craig Davidson, sounds pretty silly if you look only at the basic plot. Ali, a tough ex-boxer with broken hands and a young son to look after,...
View ArticleArgo, Cert 15, 120 mins - review
You would have thought there wasn’t a feelgood movie to be made about the Iranian hostage crisis, in which 52 Americans were imprisoned in their embassy in Tehran for 444 days from 1979 to 1981.
View ArticleAmour, Cert 12A, 127 mins - review
Firemen are breaking in to a Parisian apartment. There’s a bad smell. A door has been sealed with tape. On the bed an old woman lies dead and shrivelled, carefully arranged, surrounded with flowers.
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