In a special feature running all this week, Alex Williams counts down his Essential Actor / Director Partnerships… Through history, there have been partnerships that, because of some mystical, unknown chemistry, have created something so great that is it destined to ring through the ages. Lennon & McCartney, the Curies, Tango & Cash. No list […]

True Grit, 1969. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Starring John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Jeff Corey and Dennis Hopper. SYNOPSIS: After her father is murdered a young girl hires an aging U.S. Marshal to track the killer through hostile Indian territory. True Grit has just been through a contemporary revival at the capable […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Last week’s column came off the back of a dry patch in terms of decent superhero gossip (hey, when the biggest news story is the filming of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, you know times are tough) but things have […]

The Fighter, 2010. Directed by David O. Russell. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. SYNOPSIS: An inspirational drama exploring the remarkable rise of Massachusetts-born junior welterweight boxing champion “Irish” Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg). It seems like every single week through 2011 a new Oscar nominated and much hyped film hits our […]

French Film, 2008. Directed by Jackie Oudney. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Anne-Marie Duff, Douglas Henshall, Victoria Hamilton and Eric Cantona. SYNOPSIS: As a journalist starts growing apart from his girlfriend after refusing to marry him, his best friend has found the perfect girlfriend. I don’t see why the English and French still have an air of […]

Brighton Rock, 2011. Written and Directed by Rowan Joffe. Starring Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Serkis, Helen Mirren and John Hurt. SYNOPSIS: Pinkie (Sam Riley) is a young gangster in 60s Brighton who must seduce the naïve Rose (Andrea Riseborough) after she is a potential witness to to a murder Pinkie’s gang committed. The first […]

Following his Academy Award nomination for Best Director on The King’s Speech, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Tom Hooper in the second of a two part feature… read part one here. Expecting to do a film about Katharine Graham, the legendary publisher of The Washington Post, British director Tom Hooper found his […]

Black Dynamite, 2009. Directed by Scott Sanders. Starring Michael Jai White, Salli Richardson, Arsenio Hall, Kevin Chapman and Tommy Davidson. SYNOPSIS: After his brother is killed, the gun-toting, nunchuck-wielding, ladies man and soul brother Black Dynamite sets out for revenge against ‘The Man’. On November 4th 2008, history was made. After months of campaigning, picketing, […]

Brotherhood, 2010. Directed by Will Canon. Starring Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Arlen Escarpeta, Jesse Steccato and Jennifer Sipes. SYNOPSIS: When an initiation prank goes horribly wrong the members of a college fraternity desperately try to suppress the truth and take ever more desperate steps to cover their tracks, forcing one pledge to […]

Academy Award winning composer John Barry has passed away after suffering a fatal heart attack, aged 77. Born in York in 1933, Barry began performing as a musician during his National Service and formed The John Barry Seven before going on to work for the BBC on the likes of Juke Box Jury and Drumbeat. […]