HMV ceo Simon Fox is in a remarkably amiable mood when The Raygun speaks to him on the phone. He’s preparing for a board meeting but you wouldn’t know, he sounds relaxed and is chatty and friendly. After the kicking...
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Regular readers of this website or The Raygun newsletter will know of our admiration for the BFI's marvellous
Flipside imprint, the label dedicated to unearthing lost and forgotten classics, often with a particularly sleazy bent, and predominantly from the...
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More in the continuing adventures of our regular screening correspondent Alex Kidd, who's had a quieter seven days in terms of screenings, but has still managed to spend much of his time viewing trailers and caught up with a couple...
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One week, two big releases that were as different as you can get. In one corner there was the brio and bluster of the latest Sherlock Holmes outing as imagined by Guy Ritchie, A Game Of Shadows; in the other...
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What was your first scary film experience?
It’s a teasing question, the kind that would provoke lively office or, more pertinently these days, office debate.
Given its 12 certificate – one element that helped it towards its record-breaking £21 million plus haul...
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We’ve spent the past week or so perusing this lengthy list of British films, put together by retailer HMV as part of the jubilee celebrations taking place this summer. With its own heritage as a particularly British retailer – the...
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One of the rarest items handed out at the annual BVA gongs bash is its Special Award, not least because it doesn't happen every year and you have to do something really important to pick it up.
And here, below, we...
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This has become something of a tradition at the BVA Awards, as the organisers pull together every single gong-winner on the evening, along with some of their colleagues, and other assorted industry representatives, for a giant group shot.
And, below, here’s...
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Our regular screening correspondent Alex Kidd has done it all again this week: from Soho screening rooms, to the multiplexes, as well as a weekend-long film festival. Here's his latest thoughts and musings on some current theatrical and future DVD...
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War, what is it good for? Well, reviews for starters. Steven Spielberg’s latest epic saga arrived on DVD and Blu-ray this week and, befitting its pedigree, was one of the weekends best reviewed title, as our weekly round-up of DVD...
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