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  • Top 10 on-screen romances

    Love. As the most powerful and most mystifying emotion, it has inspired filmmakers ever since filmmaking began. This Autumn, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints looks to add to the list of great film love stories. In this story of two bank-robbing lovers, Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) escapes prison in the hill country of Texas to reunite with Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara), four years after he took the fall for her crime. In anticipation of what looks to be a beautiful story of love, here are some of the greatest on-screen romances in film history.


  • Night of Silence

    Sometimes, when you see a foreign film and find it anything other than completely amazing, you can be left wondering how much is lost in either translation or a fundamental cultural difference of understanding. Night of Silence (Lal Gece) is other than completely amazing, so perhaps there’s something crucial missing for a non-Turkish speaking audience.


  • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

    People have jams nowadays don’t they? Like, they don’t have interests or hobbies, they have jams? Don’t lie to me, I know it’s true, I’ve seen it on the Twitter – “so and so is my jam”, “this song is totally my JAM!” – yeah? Well, in the spirit of seeming up to date, Werner Herzog is most definitely my jam.


  • Bringing Up Bobby

    Bringing Up Bobby, Famke Janssen’s directorial debut, is an excellent example of why some actors should stay in front of the camera. Although it’s reasonably well put-together, any attempt at drama, or comedy, or pathos comes off as aggressively soporific. You’ll spend less time watching the film than wondering if Milla Jovovich’s character is a paedophile. Flat, boring and stupid, no one need subject themselves to this rancid cinematic cheese.


  • The Hangover Part III

    When The Hangover took the box office by surprise way back in 2009 (was it really only 4 years ago?) most people were suitably impressed. It wasn’t particularly original, nor did it have uniquely memorable jokes, but it was fine enough in a period devoid of any other notable comedies. It gave us Zach Galifanakis, who we were all certain would go on and wow to world with his revolutionary brand of comedy. It gave us Bradley Cooper, now an Academy Award-nominated actor. It gave us hope that comedy film-making in general would learn that true comedy comes from reining the more colourful actors in and focusing on the straight man.



  • A tribute to Minority Report

    Do you know what the world doesn’t have enough of? Passionate love letters to eleven-year-old sci-fi films, that’s what! Long-term BFFer Harry Harris sent us this blog at half one in the morning, which probably means he wrote it drunk – still, when you’re talking about the finest film to ever star Tom Cruise and some futuristic mittens there’s no other way to work. We present his very personal tribute to Minority Report.


  • The Gatekeepers

    Oscar-nominated documentary The Gatekeepers is nothing short of fascinating, with six former heads of the Shin Bet giving a unique account of combating terrorism in Israel during each of their stints as leader. In a similar fashion to The Fog of War, The Gatekeepers is a highly intriguing insight into what was, until now, a hugely hidden world.