6 d. ago Down Cemetery Road review – Emma Thompson is magnificent in this thriller from Slow Horses’ creator

The Oscar winner’s turn as a no-nonsense private investigator is a role model for women everywhere. She really shines alongside Ruth Wilson in this pacy, twisty thriller based on Mick Herron’s debut novelI always forget how good Emma Thompson is. That is partly because she tends to work in film rather than television and I last made it to the cinema in the mid-90s. It is also partly because she is always so how can I put this? so Emma Thompson in all her interviews and award speeches that I can’t envisage her putting herself away enough for Proper Acting.But of course she can – and does as the private investigator Zoë Boehm, a woman of flint and diamond, in the new eight-part thriller Down Cemetery Road, Morwenna Banks’ adaptation of Mick Herron’s debut novel of the same name. Herron has since become known for Slow Horses, the series about the busted spies in Slough House pushing paper under the world-wearied eye of Jackson Lamb, ever hoping to get back in the game. Gary Oldman, who...

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1 week ago Cheryl Grimmer: Man suspected of killing Brit girl in Australia in 1970 named

An Australian MP has publicly named a man known as "Mercury" accused of murdering a three-year-old British girl who vanished in 1970 after her family emigrated

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2 w. ago Movie legend dies working on final film as death branded 'huge loss for cinema'

A cinema icon has died after battling a long illness while working on what would have been his last film as distraught fans pay tribute to the "comedy genius" after their "irreparable loss"

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2 w. ago ‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas

With more than 1,600 screens, people share how local-run venues are taking them on a film-worthy adventureThirty years ago, the battle to save a cinema would take Jan Dunn and her community on an adventure worthy of a film itself.When she heard that the Apollo, the last cinema in the area, was closing, she got together with a group of women who rescued it from demolition, and so was born the Plaza community cinema, run by volunteers and a handful of employees. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Go bald or go home: LA cinema offers free Bugonia ticket to those willing to shave their heads

In homage to Emma Stone’s character in the new Yorgos Lanthimos film, who has her hair shaved off by conspiracy theorists, an LA cinema will have a barber in its foyerYorgos Lanthimos fans based in Los Angeles eager to see his latest film for free are in luck: a cinema is offering complimentary tickets to a special screening on Monday to anyone who is either already bald or is willing to have their head shaved in the foyer first.The initiative is in homage to Emma Stone’s character in the film, a high-powered pharmaceutical CEO kidnapped by conspiracy theorists (played by Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who believe she is an alien and shave her hair off. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Here's when Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will be in cinemas and where in Scotland you can watch it

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein will be in cinemas from Friday, October 24, with just 12 in Scotland showing the film.

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2 w. ago ‘Theatre is an elitist artform for privileged people’: Daniel Day

Speaking at the London film festival, the triple Oscar-winner mounted a fierce defence of movies and method acting, although he conceded My Left Foot couldn’t be made todayThe actor Daniel Day-Lewis railed against audiences being priced out of theatres, and what he perceived as a continued snobbery concerning cinema in the UK at an event at the London film festival.Speaking to the critic Mark Kermode for a lengthy conversation in front of an audience at the BFI Southbank, Day-Lewis said he felt “there’s still an elitism in this country that theatre is the superior form”. His drama training at the Bristol Old Vic school had encouraged in him the sense that theatre work was the goal. “Then there’s films: bit dodgy. Television: like, really? OK, you gotta pay the gas bill. That was the thinking. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Left me physically exhausted’: readers on their most stressful movies ever

After Guardian writers shared their picks, readers responded with films including Gravity, Paranormal Activity and The RoadWhen the film ended suddenly and silently I found I was gripping the seat armrests and noticed too that nobody moved. I can’t remember a cinema experience where literally nobody moved after a film ended. It was dead quiet for several seconds, I am guessing that many if not most of the audience had actually witnessed the real event on 9/11 on TV, as I had. Visceral cinema a bit too close to the bone, yet sensitive, nonexploitative and direction as tight as it gets. waxanimal Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Heartbroken tributes paid to teenage girl who died suddenly in cinema

Kasey-Lei Greene had been living with her family in Abu Dhabi for 14 months when she tragically collapsed and died at the Vox Cinema at Yas Mall in the United Arab Emirates capital

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3 w. ago Brit girl, 13, dies in Abu Dhabi while watching a film at cinema with friend

Kasey-Lei Greene, 13, had moved to Abu Dhabi with her family last year to start a new life in the UAE. She died suddenly at the cinema with her friend and gave her dad one last hug

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3 w. ago Teen girl gave dad a hug before cinema trip – neither knew it was the last time

Kasey-Lei Greene, a 'bubbly, caring and tough' 13-year-old from Sutton Coldfield, tragically died while on a trip to the cinema in Abu Dhabi

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3 w. ago A man in Brazil turned his childhood dream into a small cinema for film lovers

Carlos Costa has fulfilled his childhood dream of owning a movie theater

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3 w. ago Inside the wonderfully quirky Greater Manchester cinema that promises a first for film fans

It's bringing back the glory days without any gimmicks

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3 w. ago Ex cop begs for truth to be told over Brit girl who went missing from Australia beach

Cheryl Grimmer vanished 55 years ago after leaving Fairy Meadow Beach, Wollongong and has never been seen again

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4 w. ago London Film Fest Head Previews “Formally Daring Cinema,” Stars “Playing Against Perceived Type” in 2025 Edition

London Film Fest Head Previews “Formally Daring Cinema,” Stars “Playing Against Perceived Type” in 2025 Edition  hollywoodreporter.com

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4 w. ago I Swear: Scot with Tourettes whose life inspired hit film visits cinema for first time in 40 years

John Davidson’s life inspired film I Swear

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