Fifty Shades of Cinema: 1984 – The Killing Fields

Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking a look at The Killing Fields starring Sam Waterston and direction coming from Roland Joffe.  The Contenders 1984 offers some excellent titles to pore over. The big winner from the year’s award season was Milos Forman’s Amadeus, a period drama studying the complex character of Mozart. Besides that, there’s Sergio Leone’s sprawling gangster epic Once Upon A Time In America; Rob Reiner’s... Read More

Cinema Review: Arme Riddere (Jackpot)

Jonathon Dabell takes a look at Scandinavian crime movie Jackpot starring Henrik Mestad and Kyrre Hellum with direction coming from Magnus Martens. On Limited Released at selected UK Cinemas. Scandinavian cinema is hitting a peak at the moment, courtesy of titles like cult horror smash Dead Snow, The Dragon Tattoo Trilogy starring Noomi Rapace and the critically lauded thriller Headhunters from earlier this year. Jackpot is based on an original screen... Read More

Interview: Cosmo Jarvis

The extraordinary songwriter and aspiring filmmaker talks to Mark Butler about his inventive new album, the hypocrisy of Radio 1, and how his lifetime ambition is to act in a Coen brothers’ movie. Unconventional is a term that seems to fit Cosmo Jarvis like a glove. When applied to his highly original music the word certainly seems apt – but it’s also a good way of describing his outspoken responses to certain questions too. For a 22-year-old... Read More