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12 Days In The Dark: DCM at the BFI London Film Festival

DCM's Tom Linay reveals his pick of the best films from the BFI London Film Festival 2014.

The UK’s premiere film festival and my favourite two weeks of the year are over for another 12 months and while I contemplate the sad situation that I’m no longer able to watch three exciting new films a day, I’ll instead reflect on what has once again been a huge success for the BFI, with record numbers of tickets being sold and some of the film world’s biggest names in attendance. Read more

The Maxime Cinema in Blackwood screens ‘Northern Soul’

Last week, The Maxime Cinema in Blackwood staged a screening of Northern Soul. The film, which has been 17 years in the making, completely sold out, with 220 people in attendance for the showing.

The film tells the tale of two Northern boys whose worlds are changed forever when they discover black American soul music. Northern Soul was phenomenally popular with British youths in the 1960s and 1970s, taking the North of the country by storm. Featuring Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Ricky Tomlinson and Lisa Stansfield, the film took director Elaine Constantine 17 years to make. Read more

Box Office - Ninja turtles are back and as popular as ever

The weekend round-up

The heroes in a half shell are back and as popular as ever. The new live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles opened with £4.8m, which includes £1.6m from previews. The last film featuring the pizza-eating reptiles was the computer animated TMNT in 2007, which kicked off with £1.3m and ended its run with £3m, so the newest incarnation has smashed through that benchmark. 39.4% of the £4.8m was from 3D presentations and with half term next week, there’s plenty more to come. Read more

Byker Grove 25th anniversary to be celebrated at the Tyneside cinema

Tyneside television favourite Byker Grove will be celebrated at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the show at the Tyneside cinema next month.

Hosted by the regional branch of the Royal Television Society (RTS), the public are invited to join in with the occasion and hear the ‘Grovers’ talk about what went on behind the scenes on the long-running series. Read more

LFF Review - ‘Rosewater’

Jon Stewart is one of the most revered television personalities in America and judging by the reception he received at the Debate Gala of his new film, Rosewater, he's held in equally as high regard this side of the Atlantic. He's obviously a man who engenders a huge amount of goodwill for often providing a lone voice of sanity in a media world where that is a surprisingly rare commodity.

So it's with a heavy heart that I report that his directorial debut is something of a disappointment. It's far from a disaster, but Stewart, with his incisive political commentary that is delivered in his trademark erudite fashion, has set a bar for himself that he's unable to attain in a new medium. Read more

LFF Review - ‘The Wonders’ and ‘A Second Chance’

The Wonders

Alice Rohrwacher's mood piece about a close-knit family of honey producers in the Italian countryside is a beguiling gem. 12-year-old Gelsomina is the eldest of four girls and essentially runs the farm on which they live. Along with her father, the irascible Wolfgang, she tends a series of beehives and harvests the honey, which is, by all accounts, as good as the golden sticky stuff gets. The family's way of life is simple and innocent and they're keen to protect it from the outside world, which every so often pierces their enclosed family bubble, particularly when the farm's financial woes become apparent. Read more

Review - ‘Whiplash’ takes its audience on a wild ride, doubling up as a cautionary tale and musical extravaganza

The quest for perfection. The lengths one goes to achieve it. The dangers of obsession. These are all explored in Damien Chazelle’s visceral musical thriller, adapted into a full length feature after its success at Sundance last year when it won best short film. Chazelle remains behind the camera for this heart pumping adaptation, and has made a potent film which gives both Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons their most exhilarating roles to date.

‘There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.’ This sums up the attitude of sadistic conductor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), who takes charge of the jazz studio orchestra at the fictional Schaffer Academy in New York. Seeing something in 19 year old drummer Andrew (Miles Teller), he invites him to one of his practices, where his obsessive drive for musical perfection becomes dangerously clear. Hurling cymbals, chairs and venomous insults at his musicians who make mistakes, it’s evident that Fletcher has zero tolerance for failure, and will push all his students to the absolute limit in order to succeed. The film explores the relationship that develops between Fletcher and Andrew, the effects that the former’s values have on the latter and ultimately what the consequences are for both. Read more

Baz Luhrmann Directs Chanel No. 5 Ad Starring Gisele Bündchen

Chanel No. 5 has launched a three-minute cinematic ad, The One That I Want, directed by Baz Luhrmann and featuring Gisele Bündchen.

Set to a slow version of the song You’re The One That I Want from the film Grease, performed by Lo-Fang, the ad resonates Chanel No. 5’s The Movie ad from 2005, which featured Nicole Kidman as her character Satine in Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge. Read more

Box Office - ‘Gone Girl’ Stays Put at the Top

The Weekend Round-up

Gone Girl stayed put this weekend, topping the box office for the second consecutive week. David Fincher’s thriller had a terrific hold, falling just 15%, once previews are removed, to £3.1m and now has a cume of £9.8m. It’s the second 18-cert film this year, after The Wolf Of Wall Street, to top the box office for two successive weeks and it should overhaul The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s final total of £12.3m in the next week. Read more

Fantasy Film League Quiz - the finale!

Following the success of the first two rounds of the Digital Cinema Media Fantasy Film League (FFL), we're excited to announce the launch of the third and final round of our league!

Since January, agencies have been pitted against each other, testing their film knowledge and prowess from predicting how the Oscars would play out back in March, to selecting the biggest films of the summer that they thought would earn the most at the UK box office during each films opening week. Read more

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