Dallas Buyers Club – review
Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto make an unlikely pairing as a rodeo cowboy with Aids and a transgender woman with a cocaine habit in Jean-Marc Vallée’s biographical drama
Film
Going The Way of the Dodo
Documentary is a celebration of a dying medium and portrait of a true film aficionado
Hackney students star in East Side Story dance film
Film based on West Side Story gives tale of star-crossed lovers a Hackney setting
The Wolf of Wall Street – review
Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-tipped The Wolf of Wall Street is a brash black comedy depicting the true story of wayward stockbroker Jordan Belfort
12 Years a Slave – review
12 Years a Slave is showing at the Hackney Picturehouse throughout January and February
Is it time to rethink our cities?
Jan Gehl’s documentary The Human Scale screening at the Hackney Empire this month explores the relationship between cities and their inhabitants
Lost regeneration on Gillett Square
Documentary about Gillett Square highlights the plight of a vulnerable community
The Art of Repair in Hackney
Stewart Lee-narrated documentary focuses on the lives of Hackney’s makers and menders
The Runners – a film that jogs the mind
Documentary finds that running makes you speak more openly about your life
American Hustle – review
A pair of successful con artists find themselves entangled with an ambitious FBI agent in David O. Russell’s black comedy
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – review
The second installment of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy is an action-filled fantasy adventure
At Home with the Ludskis – an artistic tribute to the Rio Cinema’s founder
Rio cinema hosts regular avant-garde event as tribute to its founder
Making of a ‘metamentary’ – Rough Cut by Jamie Shovlin
Hackney artist shoots film about the making of a fictional slasher film
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – review
Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss Everdeen in the second instalment of the popular Hunger Games trilogy
Star Wars auditions to come to Hackney?
Hopefuls need not venture to galaxy far away for chance to clinch role in hotly anticipated movie