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London Film Festival 2013 review: Captain Phillips ★★★★★
The opening night gala of this year’s London Film Festival is a tense true story featuring the best performance of Tom Hanks’s career, says our Film Editor Barnaby Walter.
BluChristmas #24: Julie & Julia (2008)
Weaving together the stories of American cook Julia Child (an astonishing Meryl Streep) and New York blogger…
Southampton International Film Festival Day 4: Animations and Shorts
Ashleigh Moore reports from the final day of the Southampton International Film Festival and looks over her highlights of the programme
London Film Festival 2013 review: Mystery Road ★★★☆☆
The well-made Australian drama may have been chosen for the ‘Thrill’ Gala screening at the London Film Festival, but it’s noticeably lacking in excitement says Film Editor Barnaby Walter
BluChristmas #23: Lovely Molly (2012)
Lovely Molly is an outstanding new horror film from Eduardo Sánchez, the co-director of The…
Union Films: What’s Coming Up This Week (07/10/13)
Hayley Kind rounds up all of the films on at SUSU’s cinema, Union Films, this week.
BluChristmas #22: My Week With Marilyn (2011)
Adapted from Colin Clark’s memoir The Prince, the Showgirl and Me, the film tells the true…
Review: Sunshine On Leith ★★★☆☆
A Scottish dramedy musical set to the songs of The Proclaimers? If you just shouted…
Southampton International Film Festival 2013 review: Choice Point ★★☆☆☆
With only the technician in the auditorium, I ended up receiving a private screening of…
Southampton International Film Festival Day 3: Documentaries
Day two of the Southampton International Film Festival was screened both at the Nuffield Theatre…
Archive: Shot on a shoe-string budget, Aranofsky’s film Pi enigmatic indie hits a new peak of low-budget, original film-making
Jack Harding explains his love for this weird, brilliant film.
BluChristmas #21: Bleak House (2005)
Everyone loves a Dickens adaptation at Christmas, and this is one of the best ever produced.…
Southampton International Film Festival 2013 review: In The Hour of Victory ★★★★☆
The opening screening of day two of the Southampton International Film Festival was a touching, family-orientated, World War II documentary, says Ashleigh Moore
BluChristmas #20: Frost/Nixon (2008)
Salvatore Totino’s cinematography is excellently presented on this Blu-ray release from Universal Pictures.