View from Here film festival extended deadline.

Christmas comes early courtesy of British director Debbie Isitt (Nasty Neighbours, Confetti) and her improvised comedy about the preparations for a primary school nativity play... [read more] […]

How do you turn 15,000 dollars into 100 million dollars? If you're enterprising Israeli-born film-maker Oren Peli, you write and direct a low-budget supernatural horror movie, shoot it at your own house in your spare time and watch as that modest vision becomes a 21st-century Blair Witch Project... [read more] […]

Justice is blind - and by the end of F Gary Gray's gruesome thriller, it's also horribly burned, dismembered and disembowelled as a family man turns the tables on the lawmakers who let him down, with the help of his good friend Semtex... [read more] […]

Not since the Harry Potter first cast a spell over cinema audiences has a franchise based on a series of best-selling novels been as completely critic-proof as The Twilight Saga... [read more] […]

We all want to do the right thing, but few of us ever put ourselves on the line for the sake of a greater good... [read more] […]

If fortune truly favours the brave, it's no surprise that the hen-pecked, mild-mannered mensch at the centre of Joel and Ethan Coen's new black comedy is pummelled senseless by bad luck... [read more] […]

A film about the first woman of aviation - who recklessly inspired millions of women to break gender boundaries and whose life was cut short in enduringly mysterious circumstances - should be the stuff of studio executives' dreams, right?Well, apparently not, going by the new biopic of American icon Amelia Earhart... [read more] […]

"If you can remember Woodstock, you weren't there" - or so the saying goes... [read more] […]

Britain is broken, almost beyond repair... [read more] […]

Cancel the London Summer Olympic Games! Our time on the third rock from the sun will come to a dramatic end on December 21, 2012, when planets align as decreed by the Mayan calendar... [read more] […]