Film & Books
The world's largest youth film festival returns to Milton Keynes in November
“Films have educated me as much as school has. Through film young people can broaden their horizons, be inspired to recognise their potential and tell their own stories so the rest of the world may one day hear them. Film gave me this magical world that I could go to - I think that's something that people can get from the Into Film Festival," said Michael Sheen....
REVIEW: Hell or High Water should prepare for 'a brace of Oscar nominations'
Be prepared for some salty, 'Trump-ian' dialogue from Bridges as he jokingly mocks his half native American/half Mexican colleague, which even his character is part ashamed of, given the almost incomprehensible way he mutters them out of the side of his mouth. ...
The battle of the Ben-Hur films: Which are worth the viewing time?
Our cinema critic Reel Reviewer settled in for the long-haul and watched them all in sequence, from 1907 to 2016......
In Review: Captain Fantastic is 'thought provoking, refreshing and full of emotions...;
Viggo Mortensen is sincerely compelling in his performance and even more charming in person. He is our Captain Fantastic. No, not a superhero, but rather the rugged patriarch of the family and a father trying to do right by his children. Whether he is raising them fantastically or not is the film's focus. Claire Durrant found out more......
Android in La La Land: New film explores the man, the artist that is Gary Numan
It explores the many contradictions and misconceptions that have cropped up in the life of Gary Numan, with an emotional roller-coster of an ending that reveals that the man behind the mask is human after all. ...
First came the amp, and now comes Marshall Amplification's Book of Loud
Structured like an album, it has a mix of deep cuts from the past celebrating legends of music such as The Ramones, Hendrix and The Who to cutting edge acts inhabiting the scene today....
