DVD Review: Alex Cross
Leon Nicholson takes a look at Alex Cross starring Tyler Perry and Matthew Fox. Currently available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Tyler Perry has some grande zapatas to fill after taking on the character of James Patterson’s creation Alex Cross; made famous on celluloid by Morgan Freeman in Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider. The question is, how well does he fill those shoes and is... Read More
Film Festival News: 19th Bradford International Film Festival
19th Bradford International Film Festival 11th –21st April 2013 Bradford – curry capital of the country, the world’s first UNESCO City of Film and a football team that has done the city proud. People, however, seem to forget, or not even realise that its home to one of the most important film festivals in the country. Running from April 11th – April 21st, Bradford... Read More
Film News: Roger Ebert passes away
Legendary Film Critic Roger Ebert has passed away aged 70 years after fighting cancer since 2002. Not only was he the first film critic to win a Pulitzer prize but he also worked with Russ Meyer, writing the screenplays for cult classic sexploitation flicks such as Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens and Up! He famously refused to award a star... Read More
Movie News: The Great Gatsby to open Cannes Film Festival
The Great Gatsby has been chosen to open The 66th Cannes Film Festival. The latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, directed by Baz Luhrmann, stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire. This is not the first time that Luhrmann has been honoured by Cannes as Strictly Ballroom, which was screened at the festival in 1992, won the Award for the Youth for Foreign... Read More
Bollywood News: Bollywood Releases
Bollywood releases this month. When you want to see something refreshing at the cinema, there’s nothing quite like a Bollywood production. Whatever the focus of the story – whether it’s a drama, thriller, comedy or action movie – the energy is always high-octane and there’s a big emphasis on entertainment. Two Bollywood movies out this month in the UK are a romantic drama... Read More
Film News: Skyfall Boosts Sales Of Cut-Throat Razors
New Bond movie Skyfall has been credited with boosting sales of cut-throat razors by “405%”. UK retailer The Shaving Shack believe that the sultry scene between Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris, in which Harris’s character gives Bond a wet shave and whispers “sometimes the old ways are the best”, has delivered a huge surge in interest among men. The... Read More
Film News: Top Gun Director Dies
Tony Scott, the man behind films such as Top Gun and True Romance, has died after jumping off a bridge according to LA authorities. The British-born director, youngest brother to Ridley, was born in North Shields in 1944. After graduating from the Royal College of Art with the intention of being a painter, his career took a different direction when he decided to follow in his brother’s... Read More
Film News: Vertigo Tops ‘Greatest’ Poll
Vertigo has replaced Citizen Kane as the greatest movie of all time. A poll conducted every ten years by Sight & Sound Magazine asks film critics for what they consider to be the best film of all time; and for the first time since 1962, Citizen Kane has finally been knocked off the top spot. Vertigo, directed by the great Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart and Kim Novak,... Read More
FMV Is One Today!
Grab your party hats, crank up the music and add another drop of booze to that punch – because today is the day that FMV Magazine celebrates its very first birthday. On August 1st, 2011 we launched this site with the aim of becoming one of the web’s most exciting new online entertainment mags, and it’s fair to say that we’ve more than achieved that ambition.... Read More
Film News: ‘The Hobbit’ Set To Be A Trilogy.
Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson has confirmed that his movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece The Hobbit will be split into three movies, instead of the previously planned two. Jackson stated: “Upon recently viewing a cut of the first film, and a chunk of the second, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and I were very pleased with the way the story was coming... Read More
