Page Eight, 2011. Written and Directed by David Hare. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Felcity Jones, Ewen Bremner, Tom Hughes and Judy Davis. SYNOPSIS: An MI5 officer’s boss dies, leaving behind a file which threatens the stability of the organisation. Page Eight, written and directed by David Hare and currently available […]

The Skin I Live In (Spanish: La piel que habito), 2011. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Jan Cornet. SYNOPSIS: An eminent plastic surgeon becomes obsessed with creating a new type of synthetic skin capable of withstanding any kind of damage. The Skin I Live In is a masterfully created piece […]

Liam Trim discusses the cinematic adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day in the first of a three part feature… Novels can be described as “cinematic” for different reasons. The prose might have a lush, vivid attention to detail that would translate into award winning visuals on screen. There might be a twisty, zippy, unpredictable plot […]

Beginners, 2011. Written and Directed by Mike Mills. Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent. SYNOPSIS: Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father Hal (Christopher Plummer): that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover. I wanted to start by saying that I was actually […]

Ninjas vs. Vampires, 2010. Directed by Justin Timpane. Starring Jay Saunders, Daniel Ross and Devon Marie Burt. SYNOPSIS: After Aaron and Alex are attacked by vampires, Aaron is taken in by a group of ninjas who wage a war against the living dead. What an age we live in where film titles mostly consist of […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With the Pittsburgh leg of The Dark Knight Rises shoot coming to an end, it would appear that the spies have shifted their attention towards The Avengers and Man of Steel as plenty of juicy, spoilery information leaked from […]

This might come as a surprise to some of our younger readers out there, but Chevy Chase used to be really funny. The former Saturday Night Live star enjoyed a run of successful comedies in the 1980s, starring in films such as Caddyshack, ¡Three Amigos!, the Vacation series and Fletch before his career nosedived during […]

Almighty Thor, 2011. Directed by Christopher Ray. Starring Patricia Velasquez, Kevin Nash, Richard Grieco, Cody Deal and Jess Allen. SYNOPSIS: When Loki attacks Asgard and bests Odin in combat, the only thing standing in the way of Armageddon is the God of Thunder, Thor. Chances are that if you’ve ever cast your eye over the […]

Cowboys & Aliens, 2011. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown and Keith Carradine. SYNOPSIS: A posse of cowboys attempt to defend Earth from extraterrestrial invaders. Cowboys and Aliens. Now there’s a high concept movie title if I ever heard one. There are cowboys. There […]

Win Win, 2011. Directed by Thomas McCarthy. Starring Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Alex Shaffer, Burt Young and Jeffrey Tambor. SYNOPSIS: A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) decides to ‘innocently’ relocate an elderly client with dementia, Leo Poplar (Burt ‘Paulie’ Young), into a nursing home to receive his guardian […]