Results tagged “cinema”

By Giles Broadbent

David Cameron calls for more commercial movie-making. And as if by magic, following this grand utterance, a giant light bulb illuminates above the head of the directors of Hedgehogs At Dawn and Munchbubble The Shoemaker and they down tools and make The Young Wizard and The Young Wizard II: Dance-Off At T'Pithead instead.

REVIEW
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (15)
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
A dream cast warms to John Le Carre's Cold War chiller with Oldman's hare-and-tortoise act remarkable in its minimalism.

The birth of the debate on censorship of the moving image in Britain is thrust into the limelight by an event at BFI South Bank this week.

The fact the drowning of 38 people at the bungled launch of warship HMS Albion at Blackwall in 1898 was caught on film and then subsequently screened just days after the tragedy caused considerable controversy.

FILM
Secret Cinema, Alexandra Palace
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Superb atmosphere and stunning attention to detail for the most part at Secret Cinema's screening of Lawrence of Arabia.

FILM
An Education (12A)
5/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Nick Hornby tells the story of a teenage girl's seduction into a world of glamour by a conman who promises her relief from stifling suburbia.

Night At The Museum 2 (PG)
Historical figures come alive to cause chaos

Awaydays (18)
It's the early 80s and teens are looking for kicks

Tormented (15)
Darren's dead - and he's very angry