As the Hot Shorts Film Festival 2016 gears up to bring filmmaking talent to the capital on October 8th you can bet your life that the making of those shorts provided a fertile learning ground for all of those film-makers. Nothing beats going out there and doing it. But is active production an effective apprenticeship in […]
Writer/director Noel Clarke’s latest instalment in his urban ‘hood’ trilogy has him again in the lead role as Sam Peel but this time – as his paunch in a gym mirror shows – age brings with it both undesired physical changes and also much required emotional maturity. That is until the latter is severely tested […]
Underwater Alone on a beach, she is suffering from the loss of her fiancé in a car accident. Emotionally fractured, she sinks into the ocean, and images of the past are flashing through her mind. The guilt she feels is strong and leaves her battling with giving up on life or staying […]
What a fantastic selection of short films from a whopping 200+ submissions from all over the world! Congratulations to all film makers and to the ones that made it to the official selection! London may have cold weather for the most part but it sure is getting hot in here at HOT SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL! […]
The August 2011 riots which quickly spread nationwide after Londoner Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police lives long in the memory mainly because Britain had not seen social unrest at that level in the lifetime of many who watched those events unfold live on TV. George Amponsah’s documentary picks up on the lives […]
Most movies about the fashion world tend to overplay stylistic elements merely for visual effect. It’s just too tempting isn’t it? Danish writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn‘s surreal and macabre thriller about a fresh-faced model in a cut throat world (quite literally cut throat!) does not do this, although the dreamy slow-mos and deliberately anodyne character […]
Jeff Goldblum isn’t cast a million miles outside of his comfort zone as gangling scientist David Levinson, in this alien invasion flick written and directed by Roland Emmerich. It’s been twenty years since the first Independence Day film and Levinson, now director of Earth Space Defence (ESD) is an environmentally concerned satellite engineer advising the […]
London Film Studios Academy CEO Shantelle Rochester-Henry (centre of photo) headed the organisation’s launch at Stratford Circus Arts Centre on Thursday 30th June. Also in attendance was Nick Moran, star of Guy Ritchie’s East End gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (right of photo). With Moran also promoting his latest movie London Heist, the […]
When was the last time you saw a British horror movie truly worth the ticket price, one that really made you jump when you least expected it? In fact make that ANY recent horror film. This creepy flick about a haunted flat in Enfield pushes all the right buttons because the American producers have done […]
US-born black Olympic athlete Jesse Owens won his four gold medals under the oppressive atmosphere of the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany. And if that was not enough of a feat he did so facing enormous pressures back home in the US where racial issues had reached such a crisis point that the National […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
