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Jamie Garwood interviews:
Ralph Ziman director of Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema

Howard Schumann reviews:
The Secrets (Ha-Sodot)

Jamie Garwood reviews:
Loving Memory
Undertow (Contracorriente)
Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl
Animate a new album by The Black Soul Strangers
Knight and Day
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Toy Story 3

Dan Schneider reviews:
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
Bluebeard

Sunny Nersian's new Beauty Spot features:
myface.cosmetics
Beach Babe Sea Salt Spray - Lee Stafford Hair Products
Blinding Range - Lee Stafford Hair Products
Fish Soho Products



Nigel Watson reviews:
Le Grand Jeu
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Gail Spencer reviews:
The Killer Inside Me

Jamie Garwood reviews
Iron Man 2
The Infidel
Winter in Wartime
Give 'Em Hell Malone
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

Gail Spencer reviews:
Robin Hood
Sex and the City 2

Jamie Garwood reviews:
44 Inch Chest
Kick-Ass

Gail Spencer reviews:
A Nightmare On Elm Street: 2010

Jamie Garwood reviews:
Gentlemen Broncos

Dan Schneider reviews:
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Jamie Garwood reviews:
Date Night
Law Abiding Citizen
The Men Who Stare At Goats
How To Train Your Dragon

Gail Spencer reviews:
On Dangerous Ground

Dan Schneider reviews:
I Am Legend
The Departed

Jamie Garwood reviews:
The Wolfman
Taking Chance
There's Always Tomorrow

Sunny Nersian reviews:
Gala Opening of Westfield London Vue Cinema
Freestyle
Alice In Wonderland

A Breath of Fresh Air on Country Channel TV by Robert MacDougall Davis

Jamie Garwood reviews:
The Goods
Letter from an Unknown Woman
House (Hausu)
Broken Embraces
The Hangover
Toy Story 2 - 3D version
Mixtape nominated for a BAFTA
Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy

Chloe Walker reviews:
Vacancy
Valentine's Day
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Legally Blonde
Sherlock Holmes
The Fly

New contributor
Dan Schneider reviews:
King of New York
For All Mankind
El Cid
If
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

Gail Spencer writes about the recent 17th Raindance film festival in London
and reviews:
American: The Bill Hicks Story

Howard Schumann, our incredible phantom of the cinema, reviews:
Moon
Food, Inc
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Brothers Bloom
The Limits of Control

Mamma Mia!
Doubt
Dead Man's Shoes
Dark City
2012: Science or Superstition


Danny Parker reviews:
Ghost Town
IGOR
Eagle Eye
Drag me to Hell
Night at the Museum 2
Angels and Demons
Taken

Emma Farley looks at:
Let the Right One In
(Låt den rätte komma in)
Kate Winslet's Road to Success
From Book to Big Screen
Don't Forget The Breakfast Club
Audrey Hepburn: The Fairest Lady
Teen Speak: Do Teen Movies Still Put Bums on Seats?


Alan Pavelin reviews:

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

The Man From London
The Art of Andrei Tarkovsky
Silent Light
Obituary for Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni
The Tarkovsky Companion


The Alien DeceptionMy latest book The Alien Deception is now available on the Amazon US or Amazon UK website. The Alien Deception: An Exploration of the Alien Abduction Phenomenon read more...

Steven Gerard Farrell, M.A., assistant professor at Greenville Technical College
looks at:

Galloping Gallagher Deserves the Gallows: The Irish Rogue on the Silver Screen
and
Mickey Machine Gun Is Back! The return of the Irish American gangster to the silver screen.



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Film director Anthony Minghella's death (18 March 2008) reminds us
of Jaap Mees' extensive interview with him several years ago. On the same day the science
fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke also died. He will be best remembered for anticipating the use of
communications satellites, and for his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick in the creation of 
2001: A Space Odyssey. See Nigel Watson's article Two Views of 2001 and his article about 
Clarke's Minehead home town.

Peter Tonks reviews:
Volver
Intimate Strangers
A Prairie Home Companion
Cul de Sac
A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiancailles)
Hollywoodland

Nigel Watson writes about:
Evening
The Thing From Another World
Growing Up and Keeping Safe a new CD-ROM for children

Film Censorship - Some Notes which includes a few classroom activites and debating points

There are a bewildering variety of digital cameras & camcorders on the market today, to help you select the right camera see our latest article:
Things to Look For in a Digital Camcorder – Some Thoughts

Sharon Casey reviews:
The Magic Flute

Kayleigh Lewis reviews:
American Gangster

Roger Burton examines the reality and fiction used in: 
Monster

Shaun McDonald contributes:
A Scanner Darkly
Dumplings (Gaau Ji)
Panic Room
Destricted
Louis Bunuel - Religion, Sex and Politics
Sound in the Films of David Lynch

Louise Causon reviews:
Halloween

Jack Gibson, reviews:
Intolerable Cruelty
Walking Tall
Scarface

Carina Platt reviews:
The Man Who Fell To Earth

Cody Cagle adds to our Thomas the Tank Engine debate
 


Gauche Encounters   Bad films and the UFO Mythos by Martin Kottmeyer. This is a classic and much quoted essay that has never been published before. I'll be adding some pictures to this soon.
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INDIEPIX.NET - UK LAUNCH 
report by Jamie Garwood

A new company incorporating Indiepix and NetworkedPlanet has been launched in the UK this morning, Tuesday 18th September, with the target of re-organising the economic distribution and commercial transaction of films  making productions more profitable for the film-maker and gaining greater access and visibility for the audience who want to see these films. 

All the films are able to view, research, explore or even purchase now at www.indiepix.net

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