Anticipated Arthouses'

After all the recent Bafta excitement and the Oscars still to come this Sunday, I think we’ve all congregated in the realisation that recent box office successes; The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Social Network, Inception and 127 Hours are very much deserving of their many nominations and awards. However I’m not sure about you, but I’m slightly bored of these blockbuster ‘hypes’ and am ready for some good old indies..here’s a few I reckon we should look out for..


Submarine is an original comedy which follows a 15-year-old boy who is desperate to lose his virginity before he hits 16, and is equally as desperate to save his parents on-the-verge-of-splitting-up relationship. The film is interestingly directed by none other than the IT Crowd star/comedian, Richard Ayoade, which I’m sure has helped to set the underestimated offbeat tone of the movie.

Submarine, starring Sally Hawkins (Never Let Me Go, Happy Go Lucky), Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum), and Noah Taylor (Vanilla Sky) looks like an adorable, refreshing comedy that’ll be a laugh for all audiences.


Out on the 18th March


Little White Lies [Les Petits Mouchoirs] stars the incredibly beautiful Marion Cotillard (Inception, La Vie En Rose) and is directed by Guillaume Canet, the director of award winning Tell No One, who is also Cotillard’s boyfriend! It’s a sexy, funny relationship drama about a group of friends who go on holiday and ‘little white lies’ are unveiled. If the film is anything like the trailer depicts, Little White Lies will be a romantic, moving, and highly amusing arthouse film that we all must see – girls should drag along their boyfriends.


Little White Lies is out on the 15^th April

After opening this year’s Sundance Film festival and being chosen as the official selection of the Berlin Film Festival 2010, Howl would be my third and final suggestion as ‘restrained indie film making at its best’ to you. Starring the incredible James Franco (127 Hours) and directed by academy award winners Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Howl see’s Franco as the celebrated American poet, Alan Ginsberg. The film see’s Franco adopt Ginsberg’s legendary charisma as he talks about his life. His most famous poem (you guessed it; Howl) is innovatively illustrated in animation on screen. Howl looks like a must see, if not for its genius cinematography (take a look at the trailer) or it’s upbeat, 60s jazz inflicted soundtrack, then simply for James Franco…no?


Howl is out in cinemas on the 25^th February



Inbetweeners Is Movie-fied

Yes that’s right, after it’s exceptional success (winning two BAFTAs, Best Sitcom at the British Comedy Awards, a Rose d'Or) The Inbetweeners, it has been confirmed, is hitting the big screen!

We’ll see the four foul-mouthed geeks return to us in their very own movie about..let’s have a guess;  4 teenage, sex-obsessed boys with more than 30 minutes screen time-has to be a lads holiday to Malia right? Correct! Unfortunately that’s all that has been revealed so far, but I’m pretty excited nevertheless.

Let’s expect increasingly extravagant lies, disgusting imagery, and new words for sex – bring on August 19^th when the film is scheduled for release!