Festivals

The Cannes Film Festival will be graced with no less than four of our cinematic finest this year, reports Variety. The four films are also a pretty interesting mix, ranging from drama to documentary. Broken deals with the themes of youth and the loss of innocence, when an eleven-year-old girl witnesses a...

The films at the Sci-Fi London Film Festival may not have a bank-breaking budget, but they do have exactly what a true cience fiction fan wants. The big ideas and quirky stories begin today (1st May) and end on 7th May so if you are into fantasy and other-worldly goings-on, then London is the place to be this...

Bridget Jones, Marty McFly and Maximus Meridius are just some of the iconic characters which make up Universal Studios' rich cinema history. And to celebrate 100 years of filmmaking, we take a look back at the nation's most cherished Universal movie-moments of the past century. As part of the studio's...

The jurors for this year's Cannes Film Festival, who will choose the winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or prize, have officially been announced. It was revealed back in January of this year that Italian filmmaker, Nanni Moretti, would be overseeing the 2012 committee as president of the jury - a role...

Next month sees the prestigious Sundance Film Festival make it way over to the UK for a four day event at the O2. For Britain-based film fans who have always wished they could experience the infamous 'spirit of Sundance', without trekking all the way to Utah where the festival is usually held, then...

This Friday (9th March) sees the launch of the fourth Pan-Asia Film Festival, showcasing films from the Middle East, as well as South, Central and East Asia. Fans of Asian cinema won't want to miss out on this unique festival which seeks to promote both independent and emerging talent, as well as more...

The 62nd Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) drew to a close last weekend, with a few unexpected winners receiving the most prestigious awards... This year's Golden Bear, the highest prize awarded for the best film at the festival, went to Italian docudrama, Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire). The film...

Critics are singing, dancing and 'jammin' over Kevin MacDonald's Bob Marley documentary which premièred this week at the 62nd International Berlin Film Festival. Dozens of critics are hailing MacDonald's Marley film, calling it the definitive biography of the reggae legend, who would have been 67...

Love films? Love watching them? Love making them? Okay with travelling to Stoke-On-Trent? Well then: Stoke Your Fires might just be the ideal festival for you. I love festivals and conventions. There's always something interesting going on, some talk you could be taking notes at, some competition running, or a...

We know movies like Saw and Hannibal are pretty gruesome, but judging by the Sundance audience's reaction to the horror film V/H/S, we haven't seen anything yet.   V/H/S -which premièred at the Sundance Film Festival last week - left some film fanatics feeling severely sick after seeing...