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Glasgow's Cineworld Renfrew Street introduces '4D' rumble seats
14 Mar 2012
Feel every tremor in films like John Carter and The Hunger Games
Just a couple of short months after Edinburgh received its own IMAX screen, Glasgow's Cineworld Renfrew Street (tallest cinema in the world, fact fans) is introducing special seats that add a 'fourth dimension' to your movie-going experience by rumbling…
Disney Pixar's Brave to premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival
13 Mar 2012
The highly-anticipated family film to close EIFF
Disney Pixar's Brave has been announced as the film that will close the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival. The screening will also double as the film's premiere, following a similar slot by Pixar's last release, Toy Story 3, in 2011. Brave…
Top 5 screen mothers
12 Mar 2012
In preparation for Mother's Day on Sun 18 Mar, we look at the definitive mamas on film
Mama Fratelli played by Anne Ramsey in The Goonies A mother who leans towards the disciplinarian side, Mama Fratelli regularly lets her sons feel the back of her hand, but also helpfully drives getaway for them when they rob banks. And as for her…
21 Jump Street
12 Mar 2012
Deceptively smart big screen revival of the once popular TV show, with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill
(15)109min Taken at face value, 21 Jump Street is another mis-matched buddy cop outing that mixes elements from the original television series, Superbad coming-of-age values and the gung-ho rhetoric of Michael Bay's action movies. But there's a…
On the Road trailer unveiled
12 Mar 2012
Jack Kerouac's road novel adapted for the screen by Walter Salles, starring Sam Riley
The trailer for Walter Salles' On the Road has been unveiled, featuring Control's Sam Riley, Tron: Legacy's Garret Hedlund and Twilight's Kristen Stewart. The original novel was written by Jack Kerouac, and is seen as a definitive text for the beat…
Programme revealed for Sundance London Music and Film Festival
9 Mar 2012
Robert Redford and Tricky scheduled for talks and performances
The programme has been revealed for the inaugural Sundance London Music and Film Festival, to be held at The O2 from Thu 26–Sun 29 Apr. The festival is centred around the screening of 14 films from Robert Redford's annual Sundance independent film…
Cleanskin
9 Mar 2012
A gratuitously violent Sean Bean action vehicle light on sociological insight
'I love my country. I’ve killed for it and I’ll die for it', growls Ewan (Sean Bean), an ex-soldier turned secret service agent who is tasked with tracking down a cell of homegrown suicide bombers in this London-set thriller by British writer-director…
John Carter
8 Mar 2012
Visually impressive epic adventure suffers by prepping for sequels
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ 1912 creation finally hits the screen after 79 years of development hell, with pre-production on an animated feature originally scheduled for 1931. Andrew Stanton, director of Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo and WALL-E, has…
Wanderlust
7 Mar 2012
Charmless comedy painfully short on jokes, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston
The actors in Judd Apatow’s Comedy Stable™ have an unfortunate habit of lulling you into a false sense of security. They’ll star in a string of likeable comedies that manage to poke fun at their subject matter (unplanned pregnancy, 40 year old virgins…
GFF 2012: 85A, Wrinkles and Death Watch
1 Mar 2012
Some darker but inspiring fare concludes this year’s Glasgow Film Festival
Czech animator Jan Svankmajer has made some strange films and nowhere is his wild imagination and unbridled creativity seen more vividly than in his many short films (26 in total!). In these works Svankmajer’s dark surrealism takes the form of biscuits…
Project X
1 Mar 2012
Major league mayhem with a dark, twisted edge
(18) 88mins Animal House meets The Blair Witch Project, only this time the horror is very real in a movie that will undoubtedly give all parents nightmares. No, this is not a film about paranormal activity, but a high school party that gets…
This Means War
1 Mar 2012
Unsuccessful mash-up of the rom-com and spy action genres
(12A) 97min McG attempts to satisfy both sexes in This Means War – a testosterone-driven action meets girl-pleasing rom-com, that ends up not being good in either genre, despite featuring two of the hottest young actors around (Tom Hardy and Chris…
Laura
1 Mar 2012
Otto Preminger’s powerful, psycho-dramatic noir returns to the big screen
(PG) 88min This, the first of a run of terrific film noirs that established and cemented Otto Preminger’s reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers to work in Hollywood during the post-war period, is, arguably, the European émigré’s very best.
50ft model of Hogwarts unveiled in London
1 Mar 2012
The scale model of Harry Potter's school is part of London-based Warner Brothers' Studio Tour
An intricate 50ft scale model of Hogwarts School of Wizardry was revealed for the first time today. Harry Potter fanatics will get the chance to view it for themselves when it goes on display in London as part of the new Warner Brother's Studio Tour…
Guy Pearce delivers futuristic TED talk for Ridley Scott's Prometheus
29 Feb 2012
Pearce stars as the founder of Weyland Industries
We appreciate a well-thought out viral online campaign here at List HQ. We're also fans of the inspirational TED talks, where the leading lights of culture, technology and industry come together to deliver talks based on their chosen field of expertise.
Butcher Boy - Berkeley Suite, Glasgow, Fri 10 Feb, part of the Glasgow Short Film Festival
29 Feb 2012
Profound and nostalgic home movie soundtrack session
The intimate basement bar that constitutes the Berkeley Suite, with its original 60s dancehall décor and faded ‘groovy’ vibes, mirrors the classy, nostalgic theme offered by this evening of film and music. Local eight-piece Butcher Boy frame a screen…
Oscars 2012 - live blog
28 Feb 2012
The List's lead film critic Hannah McGill delivers a play-by-play account of the big night
11.35pm The red carpet is underway. People nominated in obscure categories are meandering needily past the photographers, while publicists strop about holding signs that say things like ‘THIS PERSON HAS BEEN NOMINATED IN AN OBSCURE CATEGORY, PLEASE ACT…
The Kid with a Bike
28 Feb 2012
Naturalistic storytelling from the Dardenne brothers, starring Cecile de France and Thomas Doret
(12A) 87min The Dardenne brothers’ latest film is one of their very best – the story of the relationship between a young boy Cyril (Thomas Doret), recently taken into foster care, and local hairdresser Samantha (Cecile de France). The two meet by…
Michael
28 Feb 2012
Challenging and non-sensationalist portrayal of a paedophile
(18) 96min Doubtless Austrian writer-director Markus Schleinzer, a former casting director for Michael Haneke, will be pilloried in some quarters for making a film which ‘humanizes’ its paedophile protagonist. Yet what makes this rigorously observed…
Bel Ami
28 Feb 2012
Pretty but shallow romantic period drama starring Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci
(15) 102min A young man gains social and financial advancement via his irresistibility to women, but has trouble securing professional credibility. And then he gets cast in a film called Bel Ami! Yes, it’s hard to imagine that Robert Pattinson…
Khodorkovsky
28 Feb 2012
Disjointed but nonetheless absorbing study of the Russian criminal oligarch
(12) 112min A detailed and absorbing documentary on Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky which looks at the rise and fall of the businessman amid the bigger picture of the country’s relationship with capitalism. Following a public conflict with…
Review of reviews - Trishna
28 Feb 2012
What we said and what they said about Michael Winterbottom's Indian Thomas Hardy adaptation
We said Some of Hardy’s themes have a real resonance in this Indian setting, notably the clash between tradition and modernity, and the sexual double-standards by which Tess herself so painfully suffers, yet the film ultimately lacks the requisite…
Glasgow Film Festival: Dexter Fletcher, Wild Bill and All in Good Time
24 Feb 2012
Highlights including Trishna, The Monk and This Must Be The Place
Glasgow Film Festival is at its halfway point already, and I’ve only caught a small slice from the exploding smorgasbord that is this year’s programme (more than 200 films: your move, EIFF). But in that slice there’s been a few that are definitely worth…
In Darkness
22 Feb 2012
Compelling WWII Jewish refugee tale has depth, wit and beauty
(15) 145min Poland’s entry for the 2012 Academy Awards is a compelling tale, a technical tour-de-force and altogether an impressive showcase for the talents of a veteran director who recently helmed episodes of The Wire and The Killing (as well as…
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
22 Feb 2012
Winner of Grand Jury Prize at Cannes is playful, elegant, frustrating and beautiful
What extraordinary eyes and ears has the Turkish photographer and director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Eyes that (via cinematographer Gökhan Tiryaki) transform the most workaday vistas into lustrous dreamscapes; ears that find the hidden absurdities and…
