Bradford Telegraph and Argus

A MAJOR new movie filmed on Keighley’s steam heritage railway goes on release on Friday.

ILKLEY Film Festival opens next month with Oscar contender The Theory of Everything and closes with a screening of Cannes Film Festival winner, The Tribe.

A SEASON of art house films, Cinematheque Bradford, screened at Kala Sangam in Bradford, continues next Thursday with Plot For Peace, a documentary edited like a thriller.

A documentary movie such as the recently released Hockney usually consists of archive footage into which are spliced talking heads and contemporary clips.

OTLEY Courthouse has launched new Baby Cinema film screenings for parents and carers to watch a film with children, aged two and under, without having to worry about making any noise.

WILD *** (15, 115 mins) Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Keene McRae, Gaby Hoffmann, Michiel Huisman, W Earl Brown

AMERICAN SNIPER *** (15, 132 mins) Starring Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Kyle Gallner, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Sammy Sheik, Keir O’Donnell, Ben Reed, Elise Robertson

WHIPLASH **** (15, 106 mins) Starring Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Nate Lang, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, Paul Reiser

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH **** (12A, 130 mins). Starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Anna Chancellor

BRADFORD’S role as a destination for film-makers was cited as one of the factors helping to secure millions for the Yorkshire economy.

A 100-SEATER mobile cinema, aboard a giant truck, will park up in City Park for the first Bradford International Film Summit.

BRADFORD film-maker Steve Call will be back in his home city this spring to shoot his new movie.

FEATURE films highlighting problems among British Pakistani families in the UK have been around for some time. Think of My Beautiful Launderette, East is East, My Son the Fanatic and Four Lions.

LAST autumn Hollywood A-lister Drew Barrymore was among the cast and crew of a big budget movie who turned up for a location shoot on Ilkley Moor - and there wasn't a local caterer to be found.

BRISTOL-based Aardman Studios works its stop motion animated magic on a colourful big screen adventure for the mischievous sheep, who first appeared in Wallace and Gromit’s 1995 escapade A Close Shave.

HOLLYWOOD needs – but probably couldn’t afford – more filmmakers like Lana and Andy Wachowski.

SELMA **** (12A, 128 mins) Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson, Giovanni Ribisi, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey, Alessandro Nivola

A SENIOR BBC official is set to join an expert panel of speakers at the Bradford International Film Summit to discuss the growing potential for creating children’s film and TV.

THE BOY NEXT DOOR ** (15, 91 mins) Thriller/Romance/Action. Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Ian Nelson, John Corbett, Kristin Chenoweth, Hill Harper

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL **** (PG, 122 mins) Starring: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Penelope Wilton and Ronald Pickup

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