Lord of the Fans

Film Review: Notes On A Scandal.

This dark and broody tale of lust, deception and perverse temptation is as faithful an interpretation of the novel by Zoe Heller as is viable for the big screen; a rollocking roller-coaster of a psychological drama with as much bite—or more—as some horror films.

Sheba hart is a late thirties sweet and innocent middle-class school-teacher who gets a job at the same London school as the villainous Barbera (played by an outstanding Judi Dench). Sheba quickly becomes a mysterious presence More

Best Of British: X 3

For a small island, Great Britain more than pulls its weight in terms of making quality films, year after year. While America blows its entire budget on explosions, actresses with more leg than talent and scripts constructed wholly from an MTV auto-cue, English film-makers continue to blaze the trail of progression.

Nothing could be further from American style movie-making than Mark Locke’s debut feature film entitled Crust (2002); made for a modest sum that a Hollywood extra would barely get More

Sean Pegg and Edgar Wright: Doing Great Things

When Shaun Of The Dead–penned by Edgar Wright, starring Sean Pegg and Nick Frost (Spaced)—rose from the grave it made the walking dead main-stream cool again; not that they weren’t cool before 2004, of course, just that after Sean sunk its teeth in, you didn’t have to be at all embarrassed when bringing up the subject of zombies and gore in your local. In fact, talking, singing, or acting like a zombie came to be in More