Film / Video / Television

Populaire is in cinemas today, I’m not sure I’m going to get a chance to see it this weekend but I hope I will over the next week. Going on the trailer it looks like a good couple of hours. It’s set in 1958 and is directed by Régis Roinsard, as far as I know [...]

This week sees the release of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby on our shores. I haven’t read any reviews of the film, I’ll see it for myself thanks and I actually read F Scott Fitzgerald’s book yesterday. Going on what I read, I can see how music could be incorporated into the film at Gatsby’s [...]

Dead Man Down is Niels Arden Oplev‘s first shot at directing a Hollywood movie. He’s best known for his work in the original ‘The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo’. It’s not surprising then, when Noomi Rapace, who played Lisbeth Salander in the trilogy turns up as the female lead here. In Dead Man Down, she [...]

The Naked and Famous have been one of my favourite bands over the past few years. They announced in June last year that they had finished touring their album ‘Passive Me, Agressive You’. Hopefully that means that they’re hard at work on some new material. In the meantime, the band have released a full live [...]

Dave Grohl has been a hero to many music fans for over twenty years, drummer in Nirvana, sometime member of Queens of the Stone Age and rock god in Foo Fighters, he now has turned his hand to film directing. In this case, it’s the documentary, ‘Sound City’, which follows the life on the infamous [...]

I unfortunately missed the press screening of Song For Marion but going on the trailer I can conclude two things. 1. You’ll laugh 2. You might cry too. It’s directed by Paul Andrew Williams and stars Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp alongside Christopher Eccleston and looks like it could be the first real feel good [...]

Warm Bodies is a classic love story of star crossed lovers. In this case it’s an undead zombie boyfriend ‘R’ (Nicholas Hoult) and a very alive girlfriend ‘Julie’ (Teresa Palmer). Leave the Twilight references there because they are definitely not in the same ballpark. Some epidemic or other has changed the world as we know [...]