film Archive

The Spirit of ’45 Review

The Spirit of ’45, Loach’s most comprehensive documentary of the British working class struggle to date, is a fierce and impassioned celebration of workers’ power and the possibility of collective organisation to ensure services are delivered for people and not profit. Using interviews and archive footage – public information films, news bulletins, footage of election campaign speeches etc – Loach weaves together a narrative that explains how Britain utterly transformed itself after the Second World War.
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Side By Side Review

Every so often a documentary is made, which really captures the minds and hearts of its audience. In the last year, the genre, which has often been sidelined to television, has generated some of it’s biggest and most successful releases on the big screen including Searching For Sugarman, Marley, The Imposter, Hit So Hard and [...]
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Zero Dark Thirty Review

Zero Dark Thirty (or 'Everything You Wanted to Know About Torture, But Were Too Afraid To Ask') is the latest by Academy Award winning director, Kathryn Bigelow who has returned to the big screen with her follow up to The Hurt Locker.
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Autumn of Cinema 2012 Preview

Watch below to see the preview of cinema coming to the UK this Autumn. Some brilliant films ahead including Hope Springs, Lawless, The Hobbit, Frankenweenie, Anna Karenina, Killing Them Softly, Gambit, The Sweeney and Sightseeers.
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The 20th Raindance Film Festival Programme is Announced

The Raindance Film Festival announces its 20th festival programme at today’s press launch. This year’s lineup includes 105 features and over 138 shorts and 64 UK Premieres, 13 International Premieres, 5 European Premieres, 19 World Premieres and 24 Directorial Debuts from 38 countries with another exceptional year of internationally acclaimed films, special live events, exclusive Q&As and masterclasses. The festival will take place from 26th September to 7th October at its home of Apollo Cinema Piccadilly Circus SW1Y 4LR.
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Watch The Arrival of Wang Online – FrightFest 2012

FrightFest 2012 saw The Arrival of Wang, directed by the Manetti Bros. (Paura 3D) and starring Francesca Cuttica, as both a fan favourite and tocritical acclaim (watch out for the arrival of our review, see what I did there?). Now, here is the fun stuff. Ahead of it's DVD landing, Peccadillo Pictures have released the VOD rental for this unique picture and now is your chance to check out the film right here, on FRR! To rent the film, click below, it's only £3.49 - days after it's Festival showing, that is a pretty good deal!
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