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South West Filmmaker? Apply for over £10,000 of support available now with Exeter Phoenix
Aspiring filmmakers from across the South West are invited to submit new ideas for films across three categories: Micro Film, Short Film and Artists Moving Image. All genres of film will be considered! Continue reading
Winners Announced: Best British Independent Film Awards 2017! #BIFA2017
Hosted on Sunday night in London, catch up on all the winners from BIFA 2017! Continue reading
Discover: 4 of the best Adam Driver indie films on BFI Player
Despite last year’s exploit into the most successful, epic space opera film franchise of all time, Adam Driver remains a wonderful focal point within the independent film industry. Rising to prominence as Adam Sackler in Lena Dunham’s HBO show Girls, for which he received three consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor … Continue reading
The best of Hell or High Water’s Jeff Bridges – On BFI Player now!
Hell or High Water was a huge surprise favourite of mine, see my 4-star review here, and Jeff Bridges, who plays Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton, gives a stunning co-starring performance and surely gets better with every year that passes by. With the film arriving on the BFI Player this week (click here to stream now), we take … Continue reading
Free State of Jones Blu-ray Review
Review by Awais Irfan for CriticalPopcorn The past few years have been fairly good to Matthew McConaughey, at the height of the McConaissance, from the likes of Mud to Magic Mike, Dallas Buyer’s Club, Interstellar, and more. One of his big films from last year, Free State of Jones, arrives on Digital today plus on … Continue reading
The many faces of Batman and Robin – Own ‘Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders’ on Blu-ray and DVD now!
The Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin have had multiple incarnations throughout the decades, with the original boy wonder introduced into the Detective Comics in 1940 (where Batman was brought to readers the year previously). To celebrate the release of Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, a fabulous flash-back to the 1960s, we’re taking a … Continue reading
