- 97% of films downloaded are illegal - 10% of films viewed are non-mainstream - 45% are sastisfied with choice of films available at cinema Brendant Tate, for Newcastle College and Hello Ideas, has compiled the early results of his survey into cinema-going habits amongst young people and students.  Published for the first time on Netribution, the results comee from 75 face-to-face interviews…

  Jon Williams Reflects On the UK's Confused Assisted Film Production Agendas "The UKFC does have an overall policy of nurturing UK film production, it's just that they have a different agenda - and it's an agenda which sees a particular role for the RSAs. And that is first to be facilitators, who can provide the information and practical assistance which may attra…

“3-D is back!”-- a reference to the new Sony release Monster House (Dir. Gil Kenan 2006), “And it’s better than ever!”. Upon reading the article, the world stutters back, aghast. Hmm. Well, there will certainly be more than one person who looks around at the rest of the slack-jawed zombies beside them, stands up, and demands “Oh no it isn’t!”…

  He is not as famous as Spielberg, Lucas or Peckinpah, but Arthur Penn did as much as anyone to shape modern cinema, with his 1967 classic gangster movie Bonnie and Clyde. In his book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind gives the film much credit for ushering in what is now recognised as a golden age in Hollywood, although most commentators at the time believed cinema was in its d…

The critics sniffed snobbishly at V for Vendetta, but it could just be the most subversive political film of the Bush/Blair era. By turns thoughtful and aggressive, Vendetta cuts through neo-con double-speak and inspiringly rehabilitates words such as "freedom" and "democracy" by re-investing them with their true meaning. Most impressive of all, it dares to question what separates a terrorist fro…