Monthly Archives: September 2010

Win StreetDance 3D on DVD

Posted on 24 September 2010 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed Vibrant dance movie StreetDance 3D pops, locks and hip-hops into your living room with jaw-dropping and groundbreaking street dance performances from an all-star British cast. And to celebrate the film’s release on DVD and Blu-ray … Continue reading →

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Small Screen – this week’s top ten DVDs…

Posted on 24 September 2010 by admin

Robin Hood Riding through the glen… Russell Crowe battles with Norman invaders and an English accent in this Robin Hood origins story from director Ridley Scott. If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Adam Green’s chiller thriller Frozen put the frighteners on me!

Posted on 24 September 2010 by peter

If you have no head for heights, a fear of falling and hate being cold and wet then stay away from Frozen, for director Adam Green‘s snowbound survival thriller is a relentless exercise in sheer terror and probably the most … Continue reading →

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Win Bad Lieutenant on DVD

Posted on 23 September 2010 by Jason Best

This competition has now closed Two of modern cinema’s greatest mavericks take a walk on the wild side with the darkly comic, distinctly offbeat crime thriller Bad Lieutenant – directed by the great Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage at … Continue reading →

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Catch the original Shaft – Richard Roundtree – in London!

Posted on 23 September 2010 by peter

Fans of blaxploitation listen-up, veteran US actor Richard Roundtree – who made his name playing Harlem private dick John Shaft in the cult 1971 film, Shaft – is heading down to the BFI Southbank in London to discuss his film … Continue reading →

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Eat Pray Love – Snooze (But Don’t Forget To Buy the Merchandise)

Posted on 22 September 2010 by Jason Best

  You’ve read the book, you’ve booked the holiday, you’ve bought the themed sarong, perfume and prayer beads; now, for devotees still hungry for spin-offs associated with Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoir, here’s Eat Pray Love the movie, a seemingly interminable … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Orson Welles gives a masterclass in acting in 1959’s Compulsion

Posted on 22 September 2010 by peter

The infamous murder case of Leopold and Loeb, two Chicago university students from wealthy families, who murdered a 14-year-old in 1924 to prove they were above the law has been the inspiration for several works in film and fiction – … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Man With Two Brains – Steve Martin when he was funny

Posted on 21 September 2010 by Beth Williams

 You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video After this encounter with the pesky Pennis in the 1990s, Steve Martin cancelled all scheduled press interviews. I think he might have been a little upset don’t you? … Continue reading →

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Pete’s Peek | Modesty Blaise is cheesy retro for the connoisseur

Posted on 21 September 2010 by peter

When it comes to kitsch-trash cinema, the late-1960s/early-1970s was a time when the genre was at its zenith, with Jane Fonda’s sexy space vixen Barbarella leading the way, followed closely by her blind angel co-star John Philip Law’s Danger: Diabolik. … Continue reading →

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Robin Hood – The legendary outlaw, before he became a myth

Posted on 20 September 2010 by Jason Best

Ridley Scott’s revisionist take on the Robin Hood story is a long way from Errol Flynn’s swashbuckling hero or Kevin Costner’s Prince of Thieves, and even further from the merry outlaw of legend. This is Robin Hood before he became … Continue reading →

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