“It’s a sad indictment of The Fifth Estate that it proves most convincing when its central figure breaks the fourth wall” The Fifth Estate EOne, Blu-ray & DVD Movies about technology are always at least five years out of date, so it’s only fitting that it’s taken that long for The Fifth Estate – Bill Condon’s occasionally diverting WikiLeaks romp, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as comedian Bill …
‘Why audiences might prefer to watch his oeuvre – a 40-year mass of frequently explicit sex films – at home rather than at the multiplex, is an enigma that may never be unravelled’ Though few of his films have secured UK cinema releases since his notorious sex-and-sandals epic Caligula sent British authorities into the mother of all censorship tizzes in 1979, self-proclaimed Italian “master of …
Seasonal movies aimed at families vie with more serious Oscar contenders as studios pitch their biggest hitters in cinemas Christmas has always been a busy time for the movies; with much of the world off work or school, there are rich pickings to be had. In the US, box office takings for the holiday season last year was more than £1.59bn – approximately a quarter of its entire yearly revenue in …
Lifeforce | Dial M For Murder | Phantom Of The Opera | Mabuse The Gambler | Breaking Bad | Nosferatu | Arrow Reading this on mobile? Click here to view This year has seen many bigger companies appear to lose interest in the Blu-ray market, with no big box set or restoration projects to match last year’s Hitchcock or Universal Horror collections. Worse yet, the annoying and worrying trend of …
Director James Cameron says the movies will be shot together and released between 2016 and 2018
Wolf Children | Misfits: Series 1-5 | Big Trouble In Little China | Elementary: Season 1 | Elysium Reading this on mobile? Click here to view It hasn’t been a banner year for animated movies. The not-as-good-as-the-first-one Despicable Me 2 cleaned up at the box office, while the offerings from the usually reliable Pixar and Ghibli, Monsters University and The Wind Rises, were good rather than …
Kay wants to replace her bulky old TV set with a flat screen for watching movies on DVD. Can she use a PC monitor instead of a TV set and thus avoid having to pay for a TV license? I’ve been using a bulky analogue TV set as a screen for my DVD player.
So Sky Movies has swiped Elf from Channel 4, and an annual mass-watching tradition has been thwarted.
Perfect Blue | Breaking Bad:The Complete Series 1-5 | The Act Of Killing | The World’s End | Despicable Me 2 Perfect Blue Reading this on mobile? Click here to view It’s almost misleading to describe Satoshi Kon as an animation director
Moving bits of paper around (the old way) or painting with billions of pixels (the new) has conjured up some of the greatest films of all time. From The Iron Giant to Persepolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best • Top 10 war movies • Top 10 teen movies • Top 10 superhero movies • Top 10 westerns • Top 10 documentaries • Top 10 movie adaptations • More Guardian and Observer critics …