Though having lived in north-west London for nearly three years I had not as yet bought a ticket to see a film in the much-loved Everyman in Hampstead, which has been open as theatre and cinema venue since 1933. ‘Have you been to the Everyman?’ was often a question eagerly asked of me and then [...]
On February 17, 2012, the Indiana University Cinema (Bloomington, Indiana, USA) hosted a one-night retrospective of independent animator Joanna Priestley’s films. This interview for Cinemart came about as a result of that retrospective. Thanks to Jon Vickers (Director of the IU Cinema), the Underground Film Series at IU, and, of course, Joanna Priestley. The first [...]
No need for too padded a preamble this month; May sees a return to those crazy six titles in one Annex days. Last month we had some Naruto movies and the totes rad Mardock Scramble; this month we’ve got more of the magical Fairy Tail, school corridor scraps in Baka and Test, high tech Ghost [...]
Cine-Excess is a London-based conference and celebration of cult cinema. Run by Xavier Mendik and Paul Smith, the event puts together seminars on a variety of cult film studies matters along with special screenings, guest visitors splitting its time between Odeon Covent Garden and the Italian Cultural Institute. Last year Giovanni Lombardo Radice AKA John [...]
Hosted by Edith Bowman, most of the Avengers assembled for the films official London press conference on a Thor thunderous day in London. With Chris Evans and Samuel L. Jackson absent, Robert Downey Jr. Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Scarlett Johansen, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Clark Gregg and Cobie Smulders joined producers Kevin Feige and Jeremy [...]
Joss Whedon is a creative talent who doesn’t boast mere fans. No. That is for others. In borderline-religious overtones, the man possesses ‘followers’. They even have a name: Whedonites. For the sake of a lame gag, if you put that in with ancient tribles such as Ammonites, Moabites, Gibeonites, would anybody even notice? They probably [...]
The Soho Hotel, a rainy London afternoon. Preview footage was being screened for the forthcoming actioner, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, a film nobody really thought would happen after Stephen Sommers daft-but-strangely-fun blockbuster from 2009. It was neither mega-smash hit or box office turkey (gobble-gobble). Surely any sequel would be a direct-to-DVD affair with low-costing B movie [...]
Michael Biehn is a bloody legend. He’s in Aliens, The Terminator, The Abyss, Navy Seals, Tombstone, The Rock and Planet Terror. He’s worked under the direction of James Cameron, Michael Bay, Robert Rodriguez and William Friedkin. He’s acted alongside, well any and everyone: Schwarzenegger, Sigourney Weaver, Charlie Sheen, Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage. Aside from [...]
Producer Paul Webster, along with the stars of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Amr Waked, came together for a press conference on the 10th April. Blunt’s merry laughing could be heard before she even came into the hotel suite as she happily greeted Amr Waked and approved of his new [...]
On Tuesday morning (10th April) Cinemart went along to a footage preview and Q&A for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. We wrote about our impressions – based on, like, five minutes of clips, and we were forbidden from taking any audio equipment – Fox insisted on doing the transcript for us! Here are images and transcript extracts, [...]
