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Alex Pettyfer To Star As London Tough Guy & Actor John Bindon In ‘The Chelsea Cowboy’ — EFM

• 04 March 2021
• Deadline

Exclusive: Magic Mike and I Am Number Four star Alex Pettyfer is attached to star in The Chelsea Cowboy, based on the colorful life of Brit actor, tough guy and lothario, John Bindon. The project ...

Rushes: Netflix Funds "Napoleon" Restoration, Microcinemas, Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg Reunite

• 20 January 2021
• MUBI

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: A screening of Abel Gance's Napoléon at the Paramount Theatre Oakland in 2012. (Photo by ...

Promiscuous Speech: Close-Up on "Poor Cow"

• 19 January 2021
• MUBI

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Ken Loach's Poor Cow is showing on Mubi starting January 9, 2021 in the United Kingdom in the series First Films First.An aesthetic of ...

Movie Poster of the Week: The Early Films of Ken Loach

• 27 February 2020
• MUBI

Above: Us one sheet for Kes.With Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You opening in the U.S. next week, I thought it would be as good as time as ever to look back over the posters for one of Britain’s ...

UK box office preview: ‘Doctor Sleep’ is the latest challenger to ‘Joker’

• 01 November 2019
• ScreenDaily

Other new openers include Ken Loach’s ‘Sorry We Missed You’. Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep becomes the latest title to try and end Joker’s run at the top of the UK box office this weekend ...

Sorry We Missed You Review

• 19 May 2019
• HeyUGuys

Ken Loach has returned to Cannes after winning the Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake back in 2016. Loach has been consistently churning out social realist films dealing with the plight of men and women ...

Programme Announced for the 13th London Korean Film Festival 1 – 25 November

• 21 September 2018
• AsianMoviePulse

Running from 1- 14 November in London before taking highlights around the country with its annual UK Tour, the festival will feature an in-depth special focus entitled A Slice of Everyday Life, along ...

Steven Soderbergh movies: 10 greatest films, ranked worst to best, include ‘Traffic,’ ‘Magic Mike,’ ‘Ocean’s 11’

• 30 March 2018
• Gold Derby

No one can say that Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh delivers the same movie time after time. In an eclectic three-decade career, he has directed crowd-pleasing all-star vehicles (“Ocean’s ...

Ken Loach's Poor Cow reviewed - archive, 1967

• 08 December 2017
• The Guardian - Film News

8 December 1967 While praising Terence Stamp’s acting, along with parts of the dialogue, Richard Roud finds Poor Cow ‘downright awful’ If I hadn’t seen Poor Cow (London Pavilion) with my own eyes, I ...

Karlovy Vary to fete Ken Loach, James Newton Howard

• 25 April 2017
• ScreenDaily

Kenji Mizoguchi, Jirí Brdecka tributes planned for 52nd edition. The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) will present a Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to ...

Miloš Forman birthday season by Amber Wilkinson - 2017-04-01 11:12:37

• 01 April 2017
• eyeforfilm.co.uk

Miloš Forman, right, will be celebrated by short season. Photo: Courtesy of London Czech Centre The Czech Centre in London is showcasing a short season of films to mark the 85th birthday of Czech ...

Trainspotting review – Danny Boyle's classic holds up terrifically well

• 12 January 2017
• The Guardian - Film News

This supercharged 1996 story of drugs, violence and growing up has lost none of its edge ahead of the release of sequel T2 Prior to the guys’ Take-That-style reunion in the forthcoming sequel T2, ...

I, Daniel Blake | Review

• 23 December 2016
• IONCINEMA.com

Brexit of Champions: Loach’s Unadorned Blue Collar Melodrama Rages against the Machine As he has been doing since he became an auteur of note in the late 1960s with docudrama shorts and the features ...

I, Daniel Blake review – Ken Loach's quiet rage against injustice

• 20 October 2016
• The Guardian - Film News

This powerful parable about the failings of the benefits system avoids irony and cynicism and treats its troubled characters with humour and humanity At the age of 80, Ken Loach returns to an arena ...

Review: "Made" (1972) Starring Carol White And Ron Harper; UK Blu-ray Edition From Network Distributing

• 30 September 2016
• CinemaRetro

By Tim Greaves Director John Mackenzie's powerful and captivating 1972 kitchen sink drama Made has been given the opportunity to find a new audience via a tasty UK Blu-Ray release from Network ...

10 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream in August

• 01 August 2016
• Rolling Stone

Ah, August, that glorious month when summer officially overstays its welcome and everyone begins praying for a respite from the blistering temperatures. With kids staying home on summer break and ...

DVD Review: Poor Cow

• 25 July 2016
• CineVue

★★★★☆ 1967 was the year of Carry On Doctor, Quatermass and the Pit and two James Bond movies. It also saw the feature debut of acclaimed television director Kenneth Loach with Poor Cow, starring ...

Poor Cow review – Ken Loach's debut masterpiece, still so fresh and artful

• 23 June 2016
• The Guardian - Film News

Loach’s 1967 drama is vividly evocative of its time and place, with superb performances and an effortless scene-by-scene swing Ken Loach’s Poor Cow from 1967 – his debut film, in fact – now looks ...

Terence Stamp in Ken Loach's 1967 film Poor Cow – video

• 17 June 2016
• The Guardian - Film News

Released in 1967, Poor Cow was Ken Loach’s first cinema feature, after a string of successful TV productions. Adapted from a novel by Nell Dunn (whose earlier short story collection, Up the Junction, ...

Versus: trailer for documentary about Palme d'Or winning director Ken Loach – video

• 13 May 2016
• The Guardian - Film News

Ken Loach, whose latest film I, Daniel Blake is screening at Cannes, is the subject of Versus, a new documentary directed by Louise Osmond, which examines the full breadth of his 50-year career. An ...