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Frost/Nixon world premiere opens London Film Festival tonight
The LFF has chosen well for its opening night. Ahead of the final
presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain in New York tonight, Frost/Nixon, the tale of a
president undone in a television interview, has its world premiere in London tonight.
Surely you know the story? The 37th
president of the United States was involved in some bad stuff called Watergate (let's
ignore t…
London Film Festival preview: Religulous
Fundamentalist atheism is as old as religion, and possibly time. Back in
a less liberal era, the 16th century, the playwright Christopher Marlowe got into trouble for trashing religion as a translator of the classical author Ovid ("God is a name, no substance, feared in vain"), as well as in his own stuff ("I count religion but a childish toy ").
US comedian Bill M…
VHS Bandits : Son of Rambow & Be Kind Rewind
With the rise of so-called 'user generated content', a strange phrase that conjours up images of cinemagoers as drug users, and 'professional filmmakers' as dealers who would never use their own supply, it's inevitable that the film industry would have something to say on the matter. And as with buses and most films from those dealing with the massive (Armagedon, Deep Impact) to the micro…
Cocaine Cowboys now out in UK cinemas
Cocaine Cowboys is a documentary looking at the rise of drug gangs in 1980s Florida. It was released in UK cinemas on 23rd November, so should be on near you.
For those unfamilar with the events of the period, the documentary tracks the transformation of Miami from sleepy retirement village to a place made rich through drugs and violent killings.
Read on for the trailer, which is fa…
We Are Together: "we cannot all shout at the same time, but we can sing together"
Paul Taylor takes a tragic story and makes an up-lifting, life-affirming, non-preachy film.
We Are Together (Thina Simunye) has as its backdrop one of the most urgent (and
shameful) issues of our time: the spread of HIV, Africa's 1.2 million
AIDS orphans and the lack of access to life-saving anti-retroviral
(ARV) drugs. That less than 17% of HIV sufferers have access to the
drugs in a…