WIN Bonnie and Clyde Special Edition on DVD

Bonnie and Clyde is famous for breaking taboos and being one of the first films to use…

Foetus Madness

Watching the trailer for Juno you could be forgiven for thinking its eponymous heroine, a 16-year-old…

Box-Office Blood

The scene takes place in an East Coast lake-house. Ann is an affluent middleclass mother, and right now she…

Hollywood Vs The Original Idea

The release of Jessica Alba vehicle The Eye, is the latest in a long line of US remakes of relatively recent…

Silence Is Golden

“A good visual gag stays with you forever,” Paul Merton claims. “You can watch a Marx Brothers film from the…

Baffled by Bollywood? Worried by WuXia? Alienated by anime? Part 1

Fear not, for armed with Future Movies trusty Bluffer's Guide to the new Asian cinema, you'll know your…

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…

Game Over, Man

Michael Davis' Shoot 'Em Up (out on DVD in January) demonstrates a more progressive side of the relationship…

Everything You Needed To Know About Making Movies...But Didn’t Know Who The Hell To Ask

Attempting to break into the movie business is a little like having sex for the first time. You know you want to do it,…

Harbinger Of Doom

British director Neil Marshall, who won plaudits for the macabre Dog Soldiers and chilling The Descent, returns to…

Jim Threapleton talks about Extraordinary Rendition

Jim Threapleton is understandably excited; his film, Extraordinary Rendition, which played at last year’s Edinburgh…

Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard is best known for his roles in movies such as Crash, Ray and Hustle & Flow, but his appearance in Iron…

Speed Camera

Special effects pioneer John Gaeta won an Oscar for his ‘Bullet Time’ sequences in The Matrix, overseeing visual…

Black and White Town

Raised in Tehran by a progressive family involved in communist and socialist movements in Iran, Marjane Satrapi first…

“Sly’s seen it … lovely to get his blessing!”

Mild motion-sickness isn’t perhaps the first thing you expect to feel in north London’s Holborn Studios. That’s until…

Q&A with Brianna Evigan

Step Up 2: The Streets star Brianna Evigan reveals what it’s like to be an all-singing, all-dancing sensation in the US…

The Orphanage Q&A with director Juan Antonio Bayona

A graduate from Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalunya, Juan Antonio Bayona directs a unique tale of love and…

Redacted Q&A with Brian De Palma

Hollywood veteran Brian De Palma returns with Redacted, a drama-documentary that won the Silver Lion at the 2007 Venice…

Q&A with Nick Nolte

With his new movie, The Spiderwick Chronicles, about to be released, Nick Nolte chats to Adam Tanswell about acting…

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…

Every Night I Go Running

David Storr’s “Every Night I Go Running”, stands at the head of three extremely interesting and effective short films.…