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Today I was at the Cameo cinema in Edinburgh to take part in an event organised by Film…

Glasgow Film Festival Review

The fifth Glasgow Film Festival drew to a close tonight with the UK premiere of Last…

Moving Pictures

Vampires: so cool, they're hot

Anyone else noticed this? Vampires are absolutely everywhere. Clearly they are very hip, very now - on tv, in…

Silence Is Golden

“A good visual gag stays with you forever,” Paul Merton claims. “You can watch a Marx Brothers film from the…

Top Ten Controversial Films

With Lars Von Trier's Anti Christ hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons, Future Movies looks at…

Foetus Madness

Watching the trailer for Juno you could be forgiven for thinking its eponymous heroine, a 16-year-old…

Did you hear the one about the Jew, the Arab and the African American?

There is much to enjoy in Taylor Hackford’s Ray, a biopic of the late, great Ray Charles. There’s an…

When The Lunatics Took Over The Asylum

The 1970s was the decade that changed Hollywood forever. With the abundant excess of the sixties a distant…

Baffled by Bollywood? Worried by WuXia? Alienated by anime? Part 1

Fear not, for armed with Future Movies trusty Bluffer's Guide to the new Asian cinema, you'll know your…

Film Events

Sam Rockwell Retrospective

Over the past two decades Sam Rockwell has been slogging his way up the Hollywood ladder, consistently tipped as the…

Recent Interviews

Directing first-time talent: Tom Tyrwhitt talks Hush Your Mouth

Hush Your Mouth is raw filmmaking, using non and first-time actors and filming in a forgotten part of London –…

Rhys Thomas goes Beyond the Pole

Comic actor Rhys Thomas is best known for playing Brian Pern in Bellamy's People. He stars opposite Green Wing’s…

Rian Johnson Q&A: The Brothers Bloom

It's been 4 years since Rian Johnson's excellent debut Brick was in British cinemas, and his unique high-school noir…

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Noel Clarke: 4.3.2.1 Go!

Discussing the influences for his new film 4.3.2.1, writer, co-director and actor Noel Clarke offers some surprising…

Sara Foster on Psych 9

Sara Foster is most recognisable for playing überbitch Jen in the so-bad-its-hilarious guilty pleasure 90210, but the…

String Theory: Idris Elba

“I came off The Wire and was like, ‘here I am world!’ And nothing, silence ...” Idris Elba tails off, momentarily…

Zoe Saldana on Avatar

Zoe Saldana has appeared in a variety of movie genres including thrillers, comedies and action adventures with film…

Leila Birch on Asylum

Former EastEnders star Leila Birch took time out from acting to take on some charity work and a producing role in the …

Richard Linklater Q&A

Richard Linklater, Orson Welles and William Shakespeare: not three names that usually come up in conversation together.…

Martin Freeman: Child's Play

Nativity! is a new comedy from the mind of Debbie Isitt, made using a similar improvisational style, and some of the…

Directors Spot Light

Understanding Adam

Adam is the breakout feature film from director Max Mayer, who has directed more than 50 new plays Off-Broadway and…

The Filmmakers of Shrek

“Our thriving goal for Shrek The Third was to tell a story as good as the first – and to make it even funnier,”…

This is England

Shane Meadows has always classed himself as a regional filmmaker. Even before his 1997 feature debut, Twentyfour Seven,…

Yes Woman

I started writing YES in the days following the attacks of September 11th 2001 in New York City. I felt an urgent need…

Super Size Me

It’s every vegan’s nightmare. The person you love bingeing on hamburgers three times daily. They’re depressed, gain…

Q & A with M. Night Shyamalan

Colin Kennedy, editor Empire Magazine chats to M. Night Shyamalan, the writer, producer and director of The Village…

Orson Welles: A potted history

Orson Welles was born on 6th May 1915 in Wisconsin, far smaller than the 6’1” overweight man he would become. His…

Jacques Tati: Serious Playtime

French filmmaker Jacques Tati quietly booked his place amongst the pantheon of film comedy’s legendary figures with a…

David Storr

25-year-old David Storr is the 2002 winner of the Nike Young Directors' Award. His three-minute film "Every Night I Go…

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