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I have always loved going to the cinema; the big comfy seats, the wide range of delicious and unhealthy snacks and watching the lights dim as the music starts and the screen lights up. But the mainstream cinemas of London are really starting to take the p**s with their expensive…
In the run-up to 2013, The Cultural Exposé team share their favourite highlights of 2012 and something they’re looking forward to in the New Year: Highlight of 2012: The Goonies at Nomad Cinema, 18 August 2012 “It is difficult not to get a little bit nostalgic at the end of the…
Anyone hooked by television thrillers Forbrydelsen and The Bridge will know already what an eerie and unsettling backdrop rural Scandinavia can provide. Extract the scenery from the drama, isolate the overriding sense of uneasy trepidation it initiates and distil this into concentrated form, and you have the films of John…
After a summer of sport, the Olympic Park passes the baton to Picturehouse Cinemas in Stratford for Sci-Fi London East, a weekend of dystopian nightmares, adventurous weaponry, and surreal hyper-violence from 9-11 November. As well as 9 metaphysical and infectious cinematic traumas (including 3 UK premieres), the festival is hosting…
It seems that Jacques Audiard’s latest film Rust and Bone cannot avoid comparisons to Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s Untouchable. They were the two main contenders for France’s submission for the foreign-language feature Oscar with the committee ultimately being dazzled by the impressive world-wide gross of the latter rather than…
Diversity is one of the major selling points for attending a film festival. Take away though, all the films that focus on dysfunctional families, awkward romances and the tranquillity of youth and the line-up of even major film festivals becomes significantly slimmer. Raindance Film Festival is an exciting exception. Ever…