Interview: John Stevenson, director, Kung Fu Panda

5:10pm Friday 4th July 2008

With The Muppets and Madagascar under his belt, John Stevenson, director of animated comedy Kung Fu Panda, spoke exclusively to Nione Meakin about how a local boy from Cuckfield made it big in Hollywood.

Kung Fu Panda

4:51pm Friday 4th July 2008

It's one of the oldest martial arts fables in the book.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, various cinemas, from Jan 25

1:54pm Friday 25th January 2008

With its dark humour, recurring black-and-white striped colour schemes, pale-faced antiheroes and Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd is a distillation of what makes Tim Burton's films so distinctive.

A Kick In The Proverbials

5:00pm Monday 19th November 2007

A Kick In The Proverbials is a tasty piece of fruit borne out of the various creative efforts going on amongst Brighton film-makers these days. A lot of it still involves blagging and getting your friends to take parts which maybe were written with Johnny Depp or Scarlett Johannsen in mind.

Lady Chatterley's Lover, Duke of Yorks, Brighton, Aug 31 to Sep 4

10:21am Wednesday 29th August 2007

Pascale Ferran's adaptation of DH Lawrence's once controversial novel of sexual awakening is the first to be directed by a woman and the first to be filmed entirely in French.

The Bourne Ultimatum

2:00pm Friday 17th August 2007

Babyfaced lad Matt Damon has morphed into a bona fide bonecrunching, ass-whooping, body-breaking steam engine fuelled by a thirst for revenge...

Independence Day, Duke of York's, Brighton, Weds

12:17pm Friday 6th July 2007

I stopped going to the cinema after enduring Gangs Of New York to a soundtrack of constant rustling provided by some clueless moron with a family-sized bag of Doritos.

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix

12:01am Monday 9th July 2007

After the magic and mayhem of last year's Goblet Of Fire, the fifth outing in the Harry Potter series feels much more like a transitional film.