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Attack of the Killer Brummies: Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers
Steve Oram and Alice Lowe in Sightseers Ben Wheatley’s eagerly anticipated new film, Sightseers, is a black comedy about a couple on a caravanning holiday across England who start a killing spree....
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Appy Days
by Gareth Negus The Bristol Odeon in the 1930s, as featured in the Lost Cinemas of Castle Park app Unless your first trip to the cinema was post-1990, it’s a reasonable bet that some of the buildings...
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Mad Love
Gareth Negus reviews the new biography of Doctor Who producer, John Nathan-Turner Becoming, and more particularly remaining, a Doctor Who fan in the 1980s was – with hindsight – an odd and sometimes...
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The Look of Love
By Gareth Negus Steve Coogan as Paul Raymond Paul Raymond was London’s King of Soho, an entrepreneur and publisher who made a fortune out of what he called erotica, and plenty of others called...
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Wedding Hells
Gareth Negus gets drunk at weddings. Abandon hope. Maybe it’s the fault of Bridesmaids. Maybe it goes back further, to Four Weddings and a Funeral. My Big Fat Greek Wedding should probably take some...
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Before Midnight
By Gareth Negus 1995 “How long has it been since we just wandered around bullshitting?” wonders Jesse (Ethan Hawke) in Before Midnight. The correct answer, though it doesn’t come, is nine years: the...
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2013
Gareth Negus, Matthew Turner and Sam Osborn report from the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Leviathan Gareth Negus The 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival followed a successful first...
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Ranger
The Lone Ranger was a megaflop almost before it hit the screen, but Gareth Negus still lives in hope it might actually be good. ‘Why the long face?’ You can see how it must have looked like a good...
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Sorted for Teens and Wizz
by Gareth Negus There are different kinds of teen movie: the kind aimed at teenagers, and the kind that are about teenagers but aimed at adults. Then there’s the kind that fall somewhere between the...
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London Film Festival 2013: Early Doors
The LFF opens to the public on Wednesday. Gareth Negus introduces a few films showing in the first week The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears Written and directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani,...
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2015
Matthew Turner, Gareth Negus and Sam Osborn take a look at the highs and lows of the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival. The Mostly Film team in Edinburgh. L-R: Sam, Matthew and Gareth Matthew...
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Trainwreck
Gareth Negus reviews Amy Schumer’s breakthrough movie. Was it a Super Advance First Class or… no, you’re right, that’s not going to work at all. Sorry. Trainwreck is billed on the poster as being ‘From...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Gareth Negus watches the version of Pride and Prejudice where a person is sought after not for their wealth or status but for their brains. Let off some steam, Bennet! It is a truth universally...
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Cult Reader
Gareth Negus opens ‘Cult Cinema: An Arrow Video Companion’ and finds a mix of bullseyes and misses. Given half a chance, many film buffs of a certain age will reminisce fondly about the BBC2 film...
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You’ll Be The First To Go
Friday the thirteenth is lucky for some as Gareth Negus has more fun than he expected to with Cannes 2015 Directors’ Fortnight selection Green Room, in UK cinemas this week. Though it’s being billed as...
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Edinburgh Film Festival 2016
Matthew Turner and Gareth Negus pick out their highlights from this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Hunt for the Wilderpeople Matthew Turner: I’ll be honest, I was expecting great things...
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Dr. Strangelove
Gareth Negus learns to stop worrying and love the bomb, with the new Criterion Collection blu-ray. “Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” Here’s a confession: I’d never seen Dr....
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Welcome to Mick’s World
Gareth Negus watches the TV series of Wolf Creek. He’s behind you. Wolf Creek started as a 2005 film from writer/director Greg McLean, about a serial killer in the Australian outback. An apparently...
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Show Me Your Chickens, Max
Gareth Negus watches Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard share a special relationship in World War II drama, Allied. That’s an actual line from the film, by the way. Robert Zemeckis came to fame as a...
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Lion
Gareth Negus uses his search engine to find meaning in Lion Lion is one of those Awards-bait true stories that has pretty much everything Hollywood loves: cute kids, exotic locations, a tearjerking...
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