Johnny English Reborn, directed by Oliver Parker, is a sequel to the first Johnny English film released in 2003. Set a few years later, English (Rowan Atkinson) is learning martial arts in Tibet after a disastrous mission which concluded in the assassination of a President. Head Agent at the MI7, Pegasus (Gillian Anderson), requests English…
Based on the 1844 French novel, titled Les Trois Mousquetaires and written by Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers has had a wide range of TV and film adaptations. Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, this latest reinterpretation is a 3D adaptation following the same story but with a cast of new faces that takes advantage…
There’s nothing better than blindly walking into a cinema to see a writer and director’s debut film – one you have heard very little about – and coming away 90 minutes later feeling more moved, entertained and uplifted by a movie than you have been in years. Perhaps cinemagoers in the mid 1990s had this…
On the back of five star reviews and incredible buzz from its screenings at the Venice Film Festival, there may not be a movie more anticipated in the world than Tinker Tailor Solider Spy. Gary Oldman steps into the shoes of George Smiley in the second film from Let The Right One In’s director Tomas…
Rarely does Hollywood manage to come up with a great idea for an original horror film. While the Japanese, Koreans, Spanish and even the British have produced their fair share of entertaining genre flicks, it has been mainly commonplace within the American movie industry to, instead, stretch out a franchise like Scream or remake a…
Adapting a novel so widely adored like Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock for the big screen is a brave move in itself. But when you take the entire setting of the story, push it twenty years into the future and begin to tweak the core elements of Greene’s classic crime story, that is a move that…
Peter Mullan’s third feature as both writer and director sees him return to the Glasgow of his youth in order to tell the story of John McGill. Set in the 1970s, McGill has just moved into high school and has huge aspirations in life. He wants to be a journalist, he wants to live in…
For any family of filmmakers, living up to your siblings’ work is always going to be a challenge. However, when your brother has recently released one of the brightest, freshest and funniest comedies that modern cinema has brought us, In Bruges, the boots are just that extra size bigger. Nevertheless, John Michael McDonagh not only…
Joe Cornish, one half of the popular BBC6 radio show, The Adam And Joe Show, could be an unlikely savior of the British film industry with his debut film, Attack The Block, an electrifying and blissfully entertaining hybrid of sci-fi, comedy and horror. The British film industry, after all, is desperately in need of something…
Being a website about British entertainment we don’t often review books. But when we were given the opportunity to review and giveaway two books featuring Britain’s top secret agent we jumped at the chance. And after reading them both I can easily say they are an excellent addition to your library especially if you are…
Warner Bros’ Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows has been given its first full-length trailer this …
When Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger defeated Lord Voldemort and brought the wizardin…
Writer and director Joe Cornish (The Adventures of Tintin) has confirmed this week that several opti…
The second full-length trailer for The Woman in Black has been released this week, promising that Da…
Three great movies arriving on DVD this week. There is urban action, urban comedy and something comp…
With literally only one British movie out on DVD over the last few weeks (Submarine) it is great to …
Only one British movie released on DVD / Blu-ray this week but it is an absolute classic of 90′…
Two British directors have new releases out this week on DVD. Joe Wright has gone from his period dr…