Film & Books
The Kendal World Film Tour visits Milton Keynes this weekend
Each year the very best films from Kendal Mountain Festival are hand-picked to travel the world on the Kendal World Film Tour. Audiences across the UK and around the world get to experience the essence and inspiration of Kendal with a selection of action sports films. The Chrysalis Theatre at Camphill MK Community is pleased to host a leg of the tour, and a selection of films covering mountaineering cycling, gritstone climbing in the Peak District and the increasingly popular fell running....
In Review: Is Bridget Jones's Baby pants or perfect? Reel Reviewer checked in for Total MK...
Its nice to see that Zellweger's 'facial rejuvination' which hit the headlines two years ago doesn't obstruct her giving a finely dovetailed 'semi-conclusion' to the life and woes of the most adorably useless English singleton and the cracking support cast is good value for money from top to bottom....
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......
