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Real-life pirates: Tom Hanks shot Captain Philips in Malta last year.

Trailer Park | Captain Philips

Wednesday 15 May 2013 - 11:29
Filmed in Malta, the real-life pirate hijacking story starring Tom Hanks is already being touted as an Oscar contender.
Uneasy rider: Ryan Gosling as stunt-biker turned bank robber in Derek Cianfrance’s multi-generational crime epic.

Film Review | The Place Beyond the Pines

Tuesday 14 May 2013 - 11:30
If you feel like sitting through two hours of every single cliché about family and masculinity, you’ve come to the right place.
Ben Russell: “A great number of people have seen Malta in Atlantis (and vice versa) and, for the sake of the film, I chose to believe that the two were interchangeable.”

Searching for Atlantis on our shores | Ben Russell

Tuesday 7 May 2013 - 12:05
Malta played host to American ethnographic filmmaker Ben Russell who used the island as a backdrop for his latest film – which takes the myth of Atlantis as its starting point.
Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark/Iron Man falls prey to an explosive home invasion as is forced to confront a deadly terrorist powered by newfangled scientific wizardry in the latest instalment of the popular Marvel Studios franchise.

Film Review | Iron Man 3

Tuesday 7 May 2013 - 12:00
The blockbuster summer officially opens with the third chapter in the massively popular Marvel Studios franchise.
Minister Manuel Mallia on the film set of The Whale

Home Affairs Minister visits film set of BBC production The Whale

Saturday 4 May 2013 - 17:37
Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia today visited the film set of BBC production The Whale which is being filmed in Malta and Gozo.

Are we still in love with the cinema?

Tuesday 30 April 2013 - 10:39
The decision to close down Gozo’s only cinema due to foreign studios imposing digital-only releases – and thus forcing local cinemas to undergo a costly conversion process – may have been the fatal blow, but the rot had set in years ago, as illegal downloads became the order of the day.

Film Review | GI Joe: Retaliation

Tuesday 30 April 2013 - 10:29
It’s brash, ridiculous and only sort-of entertaining. But what do you expect from a sequel to a film about toys?

Film Review | To the Wonder

Thursday 25 April 2013 - 12:52
Reclusive and suddenly prolific visionary director Terrence Malick is back with yet another beautiful but thin-on-plot emotional epic, this time charting the push-pull relationship of a couple while couching their marital agonies and ecstasies in a meditation on the very nature of love – both romantic and divine.

Trailer Park | Man of Steel

Wednesday 17 April 2013 - 10:21
The makers of 300 and The Dark Knight team up for a star-studded revamp of the Superman story – and it’s looking moody, broody and spectacular.

Simshar: finally, on firm ground

Tuesday 16 April 2013 - 11:17
On his visit to the set of Simshar last Friday, Teodor Reljic discovered a dedicated team that hasn’t given up on the dream to give Malta its very first bona fide feature film – despite its long gestation period.

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