A Midsummer Night's Dream Plus filmmaker Q&A with Michael Hoffman As part of the Mad About Shakespeare weekend, we're delighted to welcome Hollywood writer / director Michael Hoffman to talk about his 1999 film, A Midsummer Night's Dream , which stars Stanley Tucci, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Kline, Rupert Everett, Christian Bale, and Dominic West. A founder of the Oxford University Film Foun...

In this witty, new breed of mystery, George (Hugh Jackman) is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can’t possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realise they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solver...

Almost twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in the eagerly awaited sequel to The Devil Wears Prada (2006). The film reunites the original cast with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and...

Albert Camus’s classic of existential literature is brought thrillingly to life in the latest from French master François Ozon. François Ozon returns with a career-best work, an exquisite adaptation of Albert Camus’s classic existential novel, which premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Shot in crisp black and white, the film is a masterful interpretation, reconstituting some of...

Shot on 16mm, Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin’s film sees him return with a political folktale of two fishermen trapped in a time-loop. Thirty years after the Rose of Nevada fishing boat and its crew vanished without a trace, the vessel inexplicably returns to its old harbour in a small Cornish village, unchanged by time. Drawn by the promise of steady work and escape from hardship, two young men join ...

The Magic Faraway Tr ee follows Polly (Claire Foy), Tim (Andrew Garfield) and their three children - a modern family forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. As they adapt to their new lives, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents including treasured characters Moonface (Nonso Anozie), Silky (Nicola Coughlan), Dame Washalot (Jessica Gunning)...

In Kristin Scott Thomas's directorial debut, three sisters from very different walks of life return to their childhood home to celebrate a momentous event: the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother, Diana (Kristin Scott Thomas). As the weekend unfolds in unexpected ways, Katherine (Scarlett Johansson), a Captain in the Royal Navy; Victoria (Sienna Miller), a Hollywood star; and Georgina (Emi...

Exclusive Preview: Virginia Woolf's Night & Day Plus Q&A with producer Christopher Figg Based on Virginia Woolf’s funniest novel, Night & Day is an un-romantic comedy about a passionate astronomer Katharine Hilbery who does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. Fun and contemporary in tone, this vibrant film showcases an all-star ensemble against the ravishing backdrop of Lon...

What is the value of art? Does it reside in personal expression? Cultural longevity? Financial worth? These questions fuel this gloriously entertaining comedy, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Ed Solomon. A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusi...

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star as nearly-newlyweds whose lives unravel during the week of their wedding, in Kristoffer Borgli’s electric black comedy. After a classic meet-cute, sardonic cool girl Emma (Zendaya) and buttoned up Brit Charlie (Pattinson) set about building their lives together. On the week of their wedding, in a flurry of menu tasting and photography tests, they take the oppor...