Any film which can unite the critics of The Telegraph; Time Out, The Evening Standard, The Mirror and Variety has to have something going for it. Show times and the first 6 mintues of the film so you can make up your own mind before you go to the cinema here.

We have a weird social tendency for top-trump lists. Whether it be fastest motor cards, meanest dinosaurs, being ranked out in the card games we played in junior school, greatest pop anthems of all time in bad Channel 4 chart programmes, or FHM’s annual sexiest women issue, we like our lists.

Sometimes, when compiled with sufficient perspective, from the distance of a decade, these lists can be interesting ways of looking back at the most influential trends and shapers of a period or movement. When thrown together in the moment, however, they should be given limited credence.

Especially when one finds oneself and ones friends in them, which at the moment, in both London and Paris, the ranks of slingshot seem to team with top-trumpers….

To start, this week’s Observer pulls together the ‘Kings and Queens of Paris’ and there above the fold is the lovely Céline Sciamma, director of the achingly tender and awkward and sexy coming of age teen movie Water Lilies, the film we acquired at Cannes earlier this year, and which had its UK premier last night at the London Film Festival. Having spent an evening eating frites and listening to jazz with Celine, I can attest that she is in fact a queen amongst french-women.
Rather less notably, two week ago Variety, in its indelible wisdom, chose Thomas and I as two of top thirty “London Entertainers“. Combine these two stories Slingshot finds itself in the strange position of top-trumping on both sides of the English Channel. Quel strange!

Just to prove, though, that you shouldn’t believe everything you read, Sky News is amongst many sources getting excited that Simon Pegg is staring in Faintheart. A piece of casting so brilliant, that somehow we managed to do it without letting ourselves know. Simon, you just had to ask!

But not so much as not to point you guys to this lovely piece that the charming Adam Dawtrey of Variety penned last week: RIGHT HERE FOR RED ARV FACE MAKING PROSE

Yes, its true. Little slingshot has gone and got into bed with Goliath

Story here

We’re going to have *beautiful* babies.

And not just because the room is swaying from too many glasses of champagne.

We’re out of the closet: Slingshot Distribution is official. At least that’s what it says in the pages of  The Hollywood Reporter and Variety so it must be true.