In Ruby Sparks, Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) is a lonely novelist who hasn’t written a book in ten years, since he was 19. In a Stranger Than Fiction-like fiasco, the words he begins to write start to materialise into real life happenings. In a Weird Science-like fiasco, those words result in Calvin conjuring the woman of his dreams, Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan), as he’s named her. The two go on (…) Continue Reading »

Space is Process is a documentary that follows Olafur Eliasson in the time leading up to the realisation of his Waterfalls intstallations along the Hudson River and his retrospective exhibition at the MOMA in New York. Continue Reading »

Wednesday evening’s selection of the Festival at the Curzon Soho. Killing Anna (29m, Australia) Documentary. After his long term girlfriend asked him to move out. The filmmaker finds himself wishing that she had instead died in a tragic (…) Continue Reading »

"The Lift-Off Film Festival was created by James Alexander and Ben Pohlman back in May 2011 as a way to showcase many of the work being created by exceptional artists who didn’t have the funds to rent high tech equipment or buy themselves onto a (…) Continue Reading »

Established in 2003, The Romanian Film Festival is in its 9th year and is continuing to bring the best of Romanian films to a wider audience. Periferic (aka. Outbound) is the debut feature film from the New York based Romanian filmmaker Bogdan (…) Continue Reading »

The Romanian Film Festival in London brings an extraordinary line-up of new and exciting films, between 22- 25 November 2012, at Curzon Renoir Cinema - Wednesday, November 07, 2012 Profusion International who are behind the festival are also the people behind the Profusion Crime Series, a collection of crime writing from Eastern Europe. The films are screened at the Renoir Cinema, London (…) Continue Reading »

Chang-Min Choo and Seung-Ryong Ryu Byung-Hun Lee During the 17th century Joseon Dynasty, comic performer Ha-Seon (Korean star Lee Byung-Hun) is recruited as a double for King Gwanghae (Lee) who’s been targeted for assassination. On 20 October 2012, "Masquerade" passed 10,000,000 million admissions in South Korea, becoming only the 8th film to ever do so. Continue Reading »

The London Korean Film Festival 2012 kicked off with a screening of mega-hit crime caper The Thieves. Director Dong-Hoon Choi pulled out all the stops, casting the most bankable starts from the region, shooting in Macao, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Busan. On 2 October 2012, "The Thieves" passed "The Host" (13 million) to become the best selling South Korean film. In order to pull off the perfect (…) Continue Reading »

Tony Hickson reviews the Expendables 2 poster. Tony is the editor of Meat Plough magazine "the journal of transgressive poetry". Continue Reading »

Director Andrey Gryazev’s underground hit Tomorrow was screened at the BFI London Film Festival. Embedding himself in the Russian performance art / activist collective known as "Voina" (war in Russian), Gryazev charts the controversial group’s (…) Continue Reading »