Outcast of the Islands, 1951. Directed by Carol Reed. Starring Robert Morley, Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson and Wendy Hiller. SYNOPSIS: Escaping scandal in Makassar, a morally compromised man finds himself on a remote Indian Ocean trading outpost, where his malign influence soon spreads to all around him. The name Joseph Conrad might not immediately ring […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Shutter Island, 2010. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley. Shutter Island is the 1950s-set psychological thriller from Martin Scorsese that will have you […]

The Cabin in the Woods, 2012. Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams, Anna Hutchison and Fran Kranz. SYNOPSIS: Five friends get much more than they bargained for during a break at a remote cabin in the woods. THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW. There are some film […]

Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Although we’ll be touch upon the likes of The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Wolverine and Daredevil in this edition of The Week in Spandex, the past week has been dominated by The Avengers, with Joss Whedon’s epic superhero […]

28 Weeks Later, 2007. Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Starring Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton, Rose Byrne and Jeremy Renner. SYNOPSIS: Six months after the rage virus crippled England, an American military team enters the country to help re-establish the population. I’ve already addressed the terminology controversy in my review for 28 […]

Luke Owen reports from yesterday’s Avengers Assemble UK press conference… With just under a week to go before the release of The Avengers (Assemble), the majority of the cast held a press conference in London to answer questions about the movie. In attendance were producers Kevin Feige and Jeremy Latcham and stars Mark Ruffalo, Tom […]

The Twilight films are a divisive franchise. Some would like to repeatedly ram a crucifix shaped stake through the heart of the teen focused series, until it disintegrates into ashes. Others wish that the vampire fuelled angst would never end. Similarly (kind of), the Cannes film festival can split cinemagoers down the middle into two […]

The Road to the Avengers comes to an end as Luke Owen reviews Marvel’s Avengers Assemble… The Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers Assemble), 2012. Written and Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow […]

Acts of Godfrey, 2012. Written and Directed by Johnny Daukes. Starring Simon Callow, Iain Robertson, Harry Enfield, Doom Mackichan and Ian Burfield. SYNOPSIS: God (Simon Callow) presents us a story (in verse), mainly following Victor (Iain Robertson) at a business seminar but bringing in others and slowly revealing how every single one of them is […]

Simon Moore reviews the fifth episode of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… Some things are so smacked-out stone-cold crazy they simply have to be real. No, not The X Factor. I still insist that’s a mass hallucination we can’t wake up from. I refer instead to the Annual Preston Bed Races. This is simply one […]