There are few things I would drag myself out of bed at 4:30am for. The ‘Lost’ finale was one of them and the UK general elections were another (What? Stop looking me like that, I’m cool really) but yesterday I made that special commitment to head down to the 55th BFI London Film Festival. The…
Directed and co-written by Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a remarkable examination of the nature of need and is a raw and realistic look at how we live our lives, and today finally sees the arrival of its first trailer. Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) plays a sex addict living in New York City whose…
2011 has already seen its fair share of staggering British cinema releases from Joe Cornish’s suburban sci-fi flick Attack The Block to the hilarious Irish comedy The Guard. However, you’d be wrongly mistaken if you thought that the year’s finest British films were already behind us. Instead, there are tons of fantastic things to look…
It has been a busy couple of weeks for British director Steve McQueen’s sophomore movie Shame. Having had its premiere in Venice to great reviews, its star Michael Fassbender then won the festivals best actor award and now it has been picked up for release in the US by Fox Searchlight pictures. McQueen’s Shame is…
With the announcement of all the films showing at the Toronto International Film Festival over the last couple of weeks, we have seen a huge amount of images appearing featuring British movies and stars and we have pulled them all together for you. We feature Rachel Weisz, Ewan Mcgregor, Orlando Bloom (plus the rest of…
After working together on the highly acclaimed movie Hunger (about the 1981 Irish hunger strike), British artist-turned-director Steve McQueen and Irish actor Michael Fassbender are working together again on indie dramaShame. We are not surprised that they have decided to renew their collaboration, as there first project acted as a huge springboard for both their…
November 21 will see the release of the remastered version of the album Some Girls (1978) by The Rol…
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We have three copies of this amazing BBC Drama DVD to giveaway. Through three parts and three of Bri…
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Having been on tour for almost two years with their hugely successful fifth studio album The Resista…
If you don’t know already, the new Coldplay album Mylo Xyloto gets released today! The bands f…
With a couple of new British movies out this week it was no surprise to see a number of Brits hittin…
Rihanna and Calvin Harris stay at the top of the British singles chart this week as The Wanted almos…
You may remember last year British comedian Catherine Tate appearing on the US version of The Office…
