St. George’s Day will be enjoying it’s world premiere this evening and in anticipation of it we have a brand new clip from the film.
The clip shows the arrival of stunning Keeley Hazell as the “Peckham Princess”. Warning: not entirely suitable for the workplace!
St. George’s Day is out in cinemas from the 7th September.
Here is the brand new artwork for British hooligan thriller St. George’s Day.
Starring Frank Harper (Bend It Like Beckham, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Football Factory), Craig Fairbrass (Cliffhanger), Vincent Regan (300), Neil Maskell (Kill List), Luke Treadaway (Attack The Block), Keeley Hazell (Like Crazy), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Nick Moran (Harry Potter) and Ashley Walters (Anuvahood) St George’s Day is the British crime thriller that follows infamous gangster cousins Micky Mannock (Harper) and Ray Collishaw (Fairbrass) as they attempt to pull off the heist of their careers – masked by football hooliganism and super firms.
If Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction ever freaked you out, prepare yourself for a whole new level of bunny boiler-ness, in the soon to be released horror/thriller, My Ex. My Ex cleverly combines the bloody elements and scares from Asian horror, with all the thrills and anticipation of a revenge drama.
This spine-tingling rollercoaster of terror keeps you on the edge of your seat and ex-partner in check. The narrative of My Ex follows the rising young movie star Ken who has a penchant for promiscuity and a cowardly disposition. Something or someone scorned by our anti-hero is hell bent for vengeance, so you can expect a bucketful of shocks and gruesome moments galore.
Let’s put it this way, My Ex will make you stay faithful to your partner forever more, after all, hell hath no fury…
My Ex is due to be released 8th October by MVM
Scala Beyond – a 6-week nationwide film season celebrating all forms of cinema exhibition
Following the success of 2011’s Scala Forever film season in London, the team behind it are back with Scala Beyond (18th August – 29th September 2012), a six week season celebrating all forms of cinema exhibition across the UK, from film clubs to film festivals, picture palaces to pop-up venues and even venturing into homes and schools.
With over 100 (and rising!) different exhibitors from Newcastle to Birmingham, Glasgow to Brighton, putting on over 175 screenings of 250+ films, including double and triple bills, outdoor screenings, interactive events and live rescores, and of course the legendary all-nighters, this year’s season promises to offer something for everyone, with all of the tie-in events featured on a new site at www.scalabeyond.com
This year, Scala Beyond has widened its scope to include a more diverse range of films and exhibitors into the season, with a focus on the people and methods behind what makes a screening special. As part of this, exhibitors will be making ‘Declarations’ highlighting what makes their events unique, available to read on fillthelandwithcinemas.wordpress.com. Plus, there’s the chance for anyone to get involved, by taking part in the first Home Cinema Day on Saturday 1st September, supported by MovieMail and Film4. Simply pick a film or two, invite some friends or family round to watch them and let us know about it via our social media links including @HomeCinemaDay and #hcd2012.
Joint season organiser Roxy Bar and Screen will again be the ‘home’ of the season in London and this year will host 14 different programmers with 28 different screenings and events over the 6 week period. Check out their website for full details, but don’t miss in the first weeks Animat’s live rescore to John Carpenter’s Dark Star on the 26th plus Filmbar70’s World Wide Action all-nighter on the 1st Sep!! Other highlights for the first 2 weeks include:
Review by Joseph Conaghan (Joe Blogs)
Hunky Dory, an independent made British film had a very limited theatrical run in March 2012 and was released on DVD in late June 2012.
It is the story of Viv who returns to Swansea in South Wales after being away at “Princess College” to teach at the comp and assembles a cast of teenagers with her vision of putting on a musical version of The Tempest that the Bard and David Bowie would be proud of. It is 1976.
The film belongs to Minnie Driver from the opening frames, she lends Viv the authentic aura of the maverick schoolteacher we all wish we had (as most schools had one) at odds with the head and the established staff room attitudes to the kids as she is seen sharing the odd crafty ciggie with them and even risking all by letting pupils stay at her house.
The curls, the costumes are 100% spot on and she is very close with the Swansea accent (her famous dad born there), critics would have mauled her if she messed that up although if Catherine Zeta originally planned for the role had taken the role she would have had to lose the mid-atlantic drawl accordingly.
From the opening sequence we are bathed in the Instagram effect that 70’s photo’s evoke, especially ones taken in that very hot summer of 1976. There are plots and sub-plots which is no surprise when you realise the producer’s previous credits include “Billy Elliott” (what do you remember most, the dancing or the scenes of the 1984 Miners Strike?).
However the glue holding the film together is the music. It would have been easy to have followed “High School Musical” or “Glee” formula and gone for that full polished teenagers miming to session musicians note perfect renditions of catchy numbers with the spin off soundtrack cd sales in mind, but Welsh born director Marc Evans has taken the brave step of auditioning real teenagers for the orchestra and singers who play live on the film giving it the same feel as the little known “Canadian Langley Schools Music Project” of the same era. The music producer on the film Joby Talbot is best known for his work with The Divine Comedy and the understated arrangements suit the period well.
The outstanding tracks are Life On Mars with a water bottle accompaniment and the long forgotten Strange Magic from ELO. The fact that that Strange Magic had also been featured in the cult bathed in sunshine American movie “The Virgin Suicides” set in the same era is possibly co-incidence, there seems to be a genre evolving of gritty nostalgia with a soft focus. Stalwart Welsh actor Steve Spiers is great in this as the P.E. teacher and he also appears in Ricky Gervais’ “Cemetery Junction” which remembers 1970’s Reading of the same era and the defining film of this genre has to be “Submarine” set in Swansea in a pre-mobile phone world but without the sunshine.
Hunky Dory deserves an audience, it is the kind of film that is involving and uplifting without being gripping and euphoric. Not quite a critic’s favourite It has already started to receive the best approval there is ….the word of mouth recommendation.