Jack Pelling

Ever since Marvel announced plans to finally produce an Iron Man movie, rumours of an Avengers film have been circling the internet. At the time, it seemed like a distant pipe-dream, but Marvel Studios have been prolific since Robert Downey Jr first donned the metal suit in 2008, and now having...

If there's one director that divides opinion more dramatically than Moses divided the Red Sea, it's Wes Anderson. Like a walking, talking, film directing Twiglet, you either love him or you hate him.

The advent of yet another colour coded, emotionally ambiguous, fashion fest of an Anderson film will...

Were is not for a minor role in the Bridget Jones films, and more recently, in the BBC one sitcom Miranda, the vast majority of the population would be unaware of Sally Phillips, yet her contribution to comedy makes her second only to the actor Kevin Eldon as the most...

It was a remarkably diverse cross-section of punters that descended on the south bank's Royal Festival Hall last night; Randy Newman's dual role of cult, irreverent songwriter and Disney's composer in residence has provided him with an oddball audience that ranges from septuagenarian liberals to prepubescent Pixar fans.

Now...

Whether you are single, celibate, widowed or blessed with possessing a healthy amount of hardened cynicism, the chances are that the 24-hour period between the 13th and 15th February is not one that you await with bated breath.

The tradition of being insufferably intimate and toe-curlingly cutesy in public places...

Nostalgia is a very effective marketing tool. Over the last few years we've seen many much loved cartoon characters of yester-year resurrected and given the 3D/CGI make over. These movies are aimed at the embittered 40-somethings whose souls...

Two years after Invictus, Clint Eastwood turns the camera on a more controversial political figure in his latest directorial effort, J Edgar.  Playing the role of the infamous former director of the FBI is Leonardo DiCaprio, as heavily drenched...

Last week we brought you the news that Harry Potter director, David Yates, is planning the next big screen outing for the BBC's long running Sci-Fi series, Doctor Who. Exciting news, but now that these rumors have been confirmed, it's an apt time to consider what may be in store. 

 I always approach the comedy/drama with a certain sense of trepidation, as it is very rare that a film that styles itself in such a way provides the comedic and dramatic goods in equal measure.  At first glance, 50/50...

Fiction or non-fiction, narrative filmmaking is primarily judged on how effectively it tells a story, and Errol Morris' latest picture tells one of the most remarkable on-screen tales one will ever see.  Tabloid follows the adventures...

It's that time of year again. Upper lips all over the country are being gradually obscured from view as Movember fever takes hold. As it is a good cause, I thought it would be a good idea to compile a list, with your help, of the 10 greatest...

It seems hard to believe that Justin Timberlake was barely 20 years old when he was elevated from boy-band teen heart-throb to worldwide super star with his debut solo album Justified in 2002. Timberlake has been in...

National treasure Louis Theroux returns to our screens this weekend for the latest in his series of ever-fascinating specials.  Since the conclusion of the BAFTA winning When Louis Met... series, we've seen the filmmaker taking on more serious subject...

Mexico's submission for next year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Langue Film is Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala. The film, which played at the London Film Festival this week, follows the misfortunes of a young girl named Laura: an impoverished,...

It's getting very near the end, as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band once sang. The penultimate episode of the current bisected series, Closing Time was a standalone show, but it contained a tangible atmosphere of anxiety as...

Bethany Hamilton is a pro surfer from Hawaii, whose life has become the subject of a new motion picture, Soul Surfer, starring Annasophia Robb, Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt. Bethany lost an arm in a shark attack in 2003, but she overcame her injury and returned to professional surfing a...

So fare well Amy Pond.  (For now anyway.)  It's hard to believe that we've had two whole series of Amy and Rory already, but there's only one certainty for companions: one day, it will all come to an end.

I am ill. I used to semi-look forward to my biannual bouts of inter-seasonal influenza in my youth, as it meant missing school, being waited on and a chance to finally unwrap the cellophane cocoons of the DVDs...

You would have thought that Ms. Pond had spent enough time gallivanting around time and space to know that, when presented with the choice of pushing a big green button or a big red one, simple semiotics suggests that...

It's September. Glastonbury, Wimbledon and Edinburgh Fringe seem a distant memory. The air grows colder and the days get darker as the curtain begins to fall on another British summer. As sure as the great British public will paradoxically bemoan the lack of precipitation of drought-filled June and gut-wrenching disappointment...