Hauer Bout This?
The Raygun is drinking beer out of a bottle in a paper bag, American wino-style, while all around us scores of shabbily-dressed people amble around drinking. Newspaper and rubbish litters the floor of the east London site. No, it’s not just another normal night out for us, rather it’s the latest in an ongoing series [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Screenings Part XVII
Well the week started out in an odd way, Monday night I was looking forward to seeing a preview of the new Kevin Smith film Red State, but that wasn’t to be as the screening was cancelled at the last minute. Now sometimes this happens and it wasn’t any real big deal, that is until [...]
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I’ve been disappointed by the previous two Transformers films, I’d hoped that Michael Bay would be able to show us something epic and world shattering with his reinvention of the 80s toy line. Instead something big seemed to be missing in both entries; where they should feel awe-inspiring, they simply felt underwhelming and littered with [...]
Click here for more >Look, Now
Name change or no, Optimum, or rather, as it will be known from next month, Studiocanal, is continuing with its impressive run of Blu-ray restorations of some of its vast array of titles in its catalogue. What’s equally notable is the promotional activity it is managing to pull together for these releases. It can include [...]
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A relatively quiet week for our screening correspondent Alex Kidd, but he saw a couple ob belters. Here’s his musings on his week at preview theatres, multiplexes and, this time around, the BFI Southbank… Monday night and it’s time for something I’ve really been looking forward to – Torchwood Miracle Day. The BFI are [...]
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Our regular correspondent Alex Kidd has been all over town and beyond in the past week, taking in some of the week’s big releases, and a few forthcoming previews too. Here’s the diary of his past seven days of film-going… Tuesday and I’m back in one of my favourite cinemas, the Cineworld on Haymarket, [...]
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It’s Monday again and I’m in the screening room at Soho House for a film I really don’t know very much about: Treacle Jr (Soda). What I do know is that it stars the always reliable Aidan Gillen, an actor who seems to revel in stretching himself and never seems to play the same character [...]
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In which our regular correspondent Alex Kidd goes from packed multiple, to East End indie picturehouse to somewhere completely different in another missive from the frontlines… Oh, Orange Wednesdays – on one hand you’re a great opportunity to get into the cinemas cheap, or in the case of Cineworld Unlimited for free, but on the [...]
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Our regular correspondent Alex Kidd has been in all over London for assorted screenings and airings of films over the past week, from Soho and the West End out to Holland Park and King’s Cross. Here’s his weekly round-up of forthcoming DVD and theatrical releases… It looks like it’s going to be a busy week; [...]
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The latest missive from our regular correspondent at Soho’s darkened screening rooms and London’s multiplexes, Alex Kidd, reviewing his past week’s cinematic exploits with a home entertainment friendly slant… Monday night and after a very hectic weekend I really wanted to catch up with Attack The Block. I’ve been hearing about the debut film from [...]
Click here for more >The Week In Screenings Part IX
In which our regular correspondent, Alex Kidd, formerly at HMV, takes us on a tour of his assorted screenings, films and other events he’s been off to over the past seven days… How much you enjoy Bridesmaids will really depend on how funny you find Kristen Wiig, sadly for me I just don’t find her [...]
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Our roving reporter Alex Kidd, formerly at HMV, has had another busy week, at screening rooms and multiplexes around London, here’s his update on what he’s seen over the past week… I don’t often re-watch films, it’s not that I don’t enjoy revisiting them, it’s just that I’d always rather discover something new, re-watching films [...]
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This week started off with a break form the films and found me watching one of my all-time favourite bands, The Descendents, playing their first London gig in 14-years, though singer Milo losing his voice straight away made the evening an interesting mixture of karaoke and covers as various people were drafted in to help [...]
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The latest missive from our freelance screening correspondent, Alex Kidd, a man who’d rather spend his time in a screening room or darkened cinema in the heart of London than almost anywhere else. Except as well as seeing titles that will be appearing on DVD a log way down the line, he’s also been watching [...]
Click here for more >One Of The Best, Bar None
Jack Rosenthal was a marvellous playwright, but, until Acorn Media stepped in, his work was woefully under-represented on DVD. Yes, there was the ITV release, but all of his output at the BBC was sorely missing from the market. The late writer’s wife, actress Maureen Lipman, had even tried to enlist the help of BBC [...]
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