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Oscar-winning cinematographer worked on Kes, The Killing Fields and The Reader among others.

British cinematographer Chris Menges is to receive a lifetime achievement award at Camerimage (Nov 14-21), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.

Menges will attend the 23rd edition of Camerimage in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz to accept the award, introduce screenings of his films and will meet with the festival’s audience.

Across a 50-year career, Menges has won two Academy Awards for Roland Joffé’s The Killing Fields in 1985, for which he also won a BAFTA, and The Mission in 1987.

More recently, he was Oscar-nominated (with Roger Deakins) for his work on Stephen Daldry’s The Reader in 2010.

Menges began his career in the 1960s as camera operator for documentaries by Adrian Cowell and for films like Poor Cow by Ken Loach and If… by Lindsay Anderson.

He returned to work with Loach on Kes, which marked...

British comedian Mel Smith died Friday, after suffering a heart attack at his London home. He was 60. Smith made his television debut in a bit part in Stephen Frears’ controversial 1979 TV film Bloody Kids. Later that year, he got his big break when he joined the cast of Not The Nine O’Clock News, the celebrated and star-making topical sketch-comedy series that also featured Rowan Atkinson, Chris Langham, and future Saturday Night Live cast member Pamela Stephenson. Griff Rhys Jones, who had pitched in on the show’s first season, became a full cast member in the second ...

Tonight was a good night; it should have been Tuesday night. The screening that is, only the projector at the venue selfishly decided to catch fire, I mean literally combust in the projector room – something I’ve never seen before but I have on good authority happened once also in 1995, a year before the original Scream hit cinemas.

Yes tonight was the national press screening of Scream 4 (or SCRE4M, I still can’t make up my mind which). Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), Sheriff Dewey Riley (David Arquette) and Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox) return to Woodsboro – the most dangerous place to live next to Midsommer or Albert Square – for the first time in over ten years. Was it worth the wait?

Iconic survivor, Sidney Prescott returns to her hometown a changed woman, having survived the harrowing events of the first three movies, the character has found the strength within herself...

Bloody kids today, 'F'ing this and 'F' that! A bunch of blood thirsty hoodies are at the centre of new British after-school based thriller 'F' and it arrives on DVD and Blu-ray here in the UK on 10 January 2011, courtesy of Optimum Home Entertainment. David Schofield, Eliza Bennett (below) and Ruth Gemmel star and a bunch of new stills from the release have been revealed by the folks over at Bloody-Disgusting.com. Earlier today we launched our new giveaway where you can win one of 5 copies of the new Brit thriller on Blu-Ray right here at the Horror Asylum. Hopefully we'll have our review for this up a little later in the week. Check out just some of the new stills below....