“Shut up, you soppy tart, those things are zombies,†barks Alan Ford’s pensioner, Ray, in this vigorous slasher, which lampoons and lionises London’s East End in equal measure.
Very polished and smart 20-minute slices of award-winning sitcom, presented in mockumentary style, featuring three well-heeled families: a gay couple (Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet), the Dunphy family (led by Julie Brown’s stoical mother) and the Pritchetts (Ed O’Neill and Sofia Vergara).
Bent spoons, country house séances, electrical storms and fraudulent healers feature in this supernatural thriller which, until it unravels halfway through, is rather gripping.
Ridley Scott’s muddled Alien prequel is, essentially, a remake of the original film with a far higher budget, a thick coating of pseudo-science, and a screenplay that seems to be cobbled together from a dozen different drafts.
If there’s macramé or anything vaguely knotty in a British film you know it’s going to be creepy – this country’s foremost genre.
This year’s second live-action version of Snow White re-imagines the fairy tale as a dark, rain-lashed, mud-spattered epic, full of siege engines, burning villages, and all sorts of borrowings from the work of Tolkien and C S Lewis.
Google’s (GOOG) entertainment ecosystem for Android is about to get a big boost thanks to a new deal to bring additional movies and TV shows to the catalog. Google revealed on Thursday that its new partnership with Twentieth Century Fox will bring more than 600 movies and TV shows to Google Play in the U.S.
The success of films such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, The King’s Speech and The Inbetweeners meant the UK film industry contributed more than £4.6bn to the economy last year, according to a report released today.
TELEVISION program maker Beyond International expects earnings growth after downsizing its DVD business and expanding into digital media.