Don’t Go in the House, 1980. Directed by Joseph Ellison. Starring Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet and Bill Ricci. SYNOPSIS: Donny is tormented by his past, in particular the way his mother would punish him. When she finally bites the proverbial biscuit, Donny starts to hear voices… Don’t Go in the House was originally released hassle […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Children of Men, 2006. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Pam Ferris and Danny Huston. Children of Men is set in a futuristic world not too far from our own. […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Germain Lussier, for /Film on 23rd March 2012, revealed a little Django Unchained information for the Tarantino fans among us… “Here’s what Shamberg said when I asked when we may see some footage from Django Unchained: ‘I’ve seen some stuff and it’s amazing. We’re still shooting and my […]

Filmmaker Kevin Smith may be calling time on his directing career after his next outing, the two-part hockey drama Hit Somebody, but that doesn’t mean we’ve heard the last from the various characters of the View Askewniverse, with Smith taking to Twitter to tease the return of Dante Hicks and Randall Graves for new episodes […]

Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The big story this past week is the complete non-story about the running time for Christopher Nolan’s rough cut of The Dark Knight Rises clocking in at four-hours, which stemmed from a blatantly obvious throwaway joke over at MTV that was […]

21 Jump Street, 2012. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Dave Franco, Ellie Kemper, Rob Riggle and Ice Cube. SYNOPSIS: Two cops go undercover in a high-school to crack a synthetic drug ring. The churning out of yet another unwanted and needless remake of an 80s TV show […]

The Rum Diary, 2011. Written and Directed by Bruce Robinson. Starring Johnny Depp, Giovanni Ribisi, Aaron Eckhart, Amber Heard, Michael Rispoli and Richard Jenkins. SYNOPSIS: It’s the late 1950s and American novelist and journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) – a.k.a Hunter S. Thompson – takes on a freelance job at a Puerto Rican local newspaper. […]

Simon Moore reviews the first episode of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… You saw the film. You raised a quizzical brow at his moonboots. You scrolled past the endless dance scene rip-offs on YouTube. Now Napoleon Dynamite has his own animated TV sitcom. Replacing the spiteful and unfunny Allen Gregory in Channel 4’s late Tuesday […]

Raid on Entebbe, 1977. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Yaphet Kotto, Jack Warden, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Loggia and James Woods. SYNOPSIS: When a hijacked plane is diverted to Uganda’s Entebbe Airport with over a hundred Israeli passengers on board, the Israeli government authorises a top-secret […]

Trevor Hogg reviews Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen by Gary Collinson… Originally, a three-part feature posted by his own film review site Flickering Myth, Gary Collinson has expanded his exploration of the various small and big screen appearances of The Dark Knight into a book. The 256-page publication is divided […]