Shadows on the Wall

The 69th London Film Festival kicked off last night, so things will be very busy over the next 10 days, with pretty much wall-to-wall scree...

Two of the biggest movies this week were released online, so I watched them in my heatwave-warmed home rather than a nicely air conditioned ...

For some reason, August has been one of my busiest months this year, with barely a free moment between all of the movies I need to watch. An...

The 65th London Film Festival launched on Wednesday evening with a gala screening of The Harder They Fall at a grand new venue, the Royal Fe...

On Tuesday evening I was able to get into two huge press screenings, easily the most surreal double bill of the year. First up was Cats ...

It's been a busy week at the movies, with three much-anticipated press screenings. The best of the lot was Pain and Glory , which rete...

Yes, the big event this week was the release of The Last Sharknado: It's About Time . I suspect the title is a joke, but in the Sharkn...

It's been nice to only see three films in the three days after the film festival ended (rather than three or four a day). The main e...

Spike Lee's 2015  Chi-Raq, a rap-musical take on an ancient Greek play, finally makes it to the UK this year. After screening at the...

I finally caught up with a press screening last week for Eye in the Sky , starring Helen Mirren (above) as a British military officer coo...

The British Film Institute's 30th Flare event   continues apace all week with a lineup of far above-average films that have an LGBT a...

The 59th BFI London Film Festival kicks off tonight with the red carpet European premiere of Sarah Gavron's Suffragette . Over the nex...

Two big films screened to London press this week have strong female voices. Lily Tomlin stars in Grandma , as a sparky 70-year-old on a mi...

Films don't get much bigger than Mad Max: Fury Road , George Miller's return to the franchise 30 years after Thunderdome. Starring...

Brad Pitt invaded London to wrap up the 58th London Film Festival tonight with his World War II batttle epic Fury . He was accompanied by ...

Post-London Film Festival, UK-based critics are now in catch-up mode with current releases, upcoming films and movies that are vying for o...