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East End Film Festival – a platform for new cinematic voices

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 25 March 2013 at 13:23

The East End Film Festival is an increasingly significant event in the film calendar and there is still time to make a submission

Oz the Great and Powerful – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 20 March 2013 at 12:45

All star cast in return to the land of Oz

Cloud Atlas – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 7 March 2013 at 18:12

Tom Hanks and Halle Berry star in this adaptation of the David Mitchell novel

A Good Day to Die Hard – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 19 February 2013 at 15:09

Bruce Willis stars in another installment of the Die Hard franchise

Between the Lines film fest to explore changing media boundaries

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 16 February 2013 at 14:56

Festival at Rich Mix explores a changing media landscape and what this means for documentary makers, investigative journalists and filmmakers

London Turkish Film Festival comes to the Rio

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 16 February 2013 at 14:48

The annual festival of Turkish film comes to the Rio Cinema this month

Lincoln – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 12 February 2013 at 19:23

Daniel Day-Lewis gives a great performance in Steven Spielberg’s latest picture

Under The Cranes – charting change in Hackney

By Dominic Simpson | Tuesday 12 February 2013 at 11:43

Under the Cranes by Emma-Louise Williams looks at Hackney across generations and features a script by poet Michael Rosen

Django Unchained – review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 23 January 2013 at 17:44

Quentin Tarantino returns with a quirky western starring Jamie Foxx as freed slave Django

Gangster Squad – review

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 January 2013 at 13:05

Sean Penn stars in this action thriller set in 1940s Los Angeles

Rich pickings at Rich Mix

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 January 2013 at 18:48

A series of independent films, documentaries and shorts are being shown at arts venue Rich Mix in Bethnal Green

Hackney puts shorts on

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 8 January 2013 at 10:00

Screenings, live music and parties to be held in venues across Hackney as London Short Film Festival comes to town

Hackney filmmaker cashes in his chips

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 3 January 2013 at 09:22

A young local filmmaker has been awarded a grant to make a sequel to his début film about violence and gang culture in the borough

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – review

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 29 December 2012 at 15:37

Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins in this Tolkien tale. Showing at the Hackney Picturehouse until mid-January

My Brother the Devil – review

By Dominic Simpson | Wednesday 19 December 2012 at 22:03

Sally El Hosaini’s Hackney-based film took this year’s London Film Festival by storm

Hackney film director Asif Kapadia awarded Honorary Doctorate of Arts

By Dominic Simpson | Wednesday 19 December 2012 at 21:54

Asif Kapadia hopes his newly-awarded honorary doctorate from the University of East London will inspire others to make films

Sightseers – review

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 17 December 2012 at 12:39

Co-writers Steve Oram and Alice Lowe star in this chilling campsite comedy from the makers of Kill List

End of Watch – review

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 1 December 2012 at 17:45

This LA cop drama shot in a hand-held camera style is an impressive boys in blue bromance

Boxing clever for fair treatment in sport

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 November 2012 at 23:21

East London Fawcett event in boxing studio marks start of campaign for sexual equality in sport

Silver Screen Diner – a recipe for success

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 14 November 2012 at 15:45

Movies and meals to complement them are the latest offering for foodie filmheads