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  • Guardian Film launches 6 new documentaries

    Over the next six weeks, Guardian Film (in association with Christian Aid) is launching six new documentaries about global poverty today. To open the series, we follow the life of a young gay man named Melvin, fighting homophobia as well as the AIDS epidemic in a very intolerable Kenya. It doesn’t make easy watching, but it’s vital stuff all the same.


  • Cheat Sheet: Wes Craven

    Wes Craven: Two words that by their associative powers alone, can conjure inimitable phantasmagoric visions from which you cannot avert your eyes, but in the dead of sleepless night, so desperately wish you had. Whether it’s the snicker-snack of finger-knives or an Edvard Munchian bogeyman that threatens our dreams, it’s high-time that we got ourselves educated on the hand that wields them…


  • Battle: Los Angeles

    Recently the Alien invasion movie has seen something of a renaissance, with Cloverfield and District 9 both breathing life into one of the oldest and most tired sci-fi scenarios. But does new Hollywood blockbuster Battle: Los Angeles represent another step forward or two steps back?





  • Chalet Girl

    Having escaped Cemetary Junction and successfully humoured the flashbacks of a fool, Felicity Jones has finally been promoted to lead burger-flipper in this derivative, predictable and utterly charming amalgam of Bridget Jones‘ self-deprecating humour and Notting Hill‘s transatlantic romance.