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Movie Feature: PopCircle.com

Apr

2013

PopCircle.com – it’s absolutely the latest thing in social networking/sharing/recommending and, as you would expect, Picturenose.com is on the scene early. CEO and co-founder Tom Mendelsohn liked what he saw when he and his team first found Picturenose, so it’s for that reason that Colin Moors and James Drew were among the first to be ...

Movie News: 6th Offscreen Festival Ticket Giveaway!

Feb

2013

Six of the best for Offscreen The 6th Offscreen Film Festival opens with Berberian Sound Studio (2012) and welcomes John Waters as its guest of honour. The festival, an annual gathering for fans of bizarre and cult cinema, will once again open its doors from 6-24 March. Independent films, classic B-movies and the strangest cinema ...

Movie Feature: Oscars 2013 Predictions

Feb

2013

‘You heard ‘em here first…’ Right – in what is likely to be the shortest post I will ever write for Picturenose, here are my predictions for the 2013 Oscars on 24 February, neatly avoiding any reference to how rubbish I have been previously when I have attempted to second-guess the Academy, or the fact ...

Movie Feature: Top 15 ‘Gotta-Sees’ of 2013 2

Feb

2013

Picturenose just keeps getting better and better – we would like to warmly welcome our latest recruit, Brussels resident Tom Donley, who joins us to cast a cold eye over new releases and personal faves/hates. He begins with a look ahead to the rest of the year – take it away, Tom. Now that the ...

Your Life in Cinema

Jul

2012

We just love new recruits here at Picturenose Towers, and we are *delighted* to have acquired the talents of the erudite and charming Sophie Glaser who, to open her account, muses on why perhaps we’re all much better off without a film director pulling our strings. Take it away, Sophie.

Top 10 Movie Villains 5

Apr

2012

Men (and a woman) behaving badly Colin and James take us through their picks (five apiece) of the worst-best bad guys (and one gal) to have ever (dis)graced the silver screen. Do let us know your own choices, won’t you? Colin’s choices Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast (2000)

Sure-fire Short Movies

Mar

2012

The long and the short of it Wandering around the internet like some modern-day epic Homerian hero, I often come across people who, out of the kindness of their hearts, or more likely to secure funding for bigger projects, put up some really quite superb short movies. Whether they’re animated or live action, the standard ...

Offscreen-Picturenose Reader Giveaway!

Mar

2012

As Picturenose recently announced, Brussels’ Offscreen Film Festival turns five this year and, from 7-25 March, will be the place to be for all lovers of offbeat, bizarre, eclectic and downright weird cinema. And would Picturenose let you down when it comes to goodies? Course we wouldn’t…

Offscreen 2012

Feb

2012

Funky festival turns five The Offscreen Film Festival, an annual rendez-vous for enthusiasts of bizarre and cult cinema, celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. From 7-25 March, the spotlight is on independent filmmakers, cult classics and eccentric genres from all over the world.

1,000th Comment: We Have a Winner! 3

Feb

2012

As we recently announced, Picturenose was approaching the happy milestone of its 1,000th visitor offering his or her opinion on the site, so we wanted the chance to say thank you to all our readers, and to one in particular, namely the commentator lucky enough to leave the magic message on one of our posts.

1000th Comment Approaches! 4

Feb

2012

Dearest friends of Picturenose – your favourite film-review site reached its 600th post not so long ago and, as usual on the occasion of such landmarks, we extended our warmest thanks to you, our readers, who have made everything we have done on our site since mid-2007 worthwhile.