Titanic 3D Preview Report

Happy New Year everyone - hope you had a good festive season! Today I went along to a…

  Film School

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…

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…

Sam Rockwell Retrospective

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

George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau

Screenwriter-turned-director George Nolfi has provided the scripts for mega blockbusters The Bourne Ultimatum and…

Gregg Araki: At World’s End

With his cult hits The Living End and the ‘Teen Apocalypse Trilogy’ (Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation and…

Brian A. Metcalf: Fade to Black

Director Brian A. Metcalf has combined his background in special effects with a lifelong love of fantasy and horror in…

Kim Jee-Woon: The Devil’s Advocate

Along with Park Chan-Wook and Kim Ki-Duk, Kim Jee-Woon is one of the leading lights of New Korean Cinema. Moving…

Round Ireland With A Fridge

Comedian Tony Hawks adapted his own best-selling book, Round Ireland With A Fridge into his first film. Starring…

Jamin Winans: Putting Ink on the screen

The critically-acclaimed and highly-original sci-fi thriller Ink comes to DVD on April 25th, shot on a next-to-nothing…

The real world of C.S.I. Nick Stokes

George Eads, aka Nick Stokes in C.S.I: Vegas, has clocked up 252 appearances across 11 seasons of the crime-solving…

From Charlestown to The Town

Ben Affleck has revealed that to achieve ultimate realism in The Town, he employed real townies and a number of ex-cons…

Monsters Q&A: Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able

Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able are the stars of Gareth Edwards’ sci-fi road movie Monsters, one of the year’s most…

Documenting the surreal: Oly Ralfe on filming The Mighty Boosh

The Mighty Boosh On Tour - Journey Of The Childmen sees Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding followed on their five-month…

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…