The Brigand of Kandahar, 1965. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont, Yvonne Romain and Katherine Woodville. SYNOPSIS: A mixed race lieutenant joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen in an offensive against the British forces in India. Afghanistan’s a tough one. Hard to know what to make of it all, whichever way […]

The Scarlet Blade, 1963. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Jack Hedley, Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, June Thorburn and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: The daughter of an anti-royalist loyal to Oliver Cromwell falls for the Scarlet Blade – a dashing Robin Hood figure leading the Royalist rebels. Civil Wars aren’t the most sensible of affairs at the […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… A Fistful of Dollars, 1964. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood. A Fistful of Dollars is the first in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western ‘Dollars’ trilogy and introduces us to the ‘Man with No Name’ (Eastwood). On his arrival […]

Shame, 2011. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. SYNOPSIS: A sex addict’s life becomes increasingly more desperate when his sister moves in. Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) is a man unable to emotionally connect, desensitised to social interaction by a habitual stream of Chinese takeaways and Internet pornography. His laptop at home […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… The Telegraph covered a very strange story when the inevitable anti-The Artist publicity machine began in full swing with Kim Novak, star of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, chiming in: “Novak took out a full-page advert in Variety magazine earlier this week, where she said: ‘The [Artist] could and should have […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Entertainment Weekly went behind-the-scenes of Christopher Nolan’s final Batman feature this past week for an inside look at The Dark Knight Rises that included five new images from the hugely anticipated sequel. Although nothing revelatory, they do provide us […]

Trevor Hogg presents an exclusive piece of artwork from illustrator Mike Maihack depicting John Carter and Dejah Thoris… When looking through the weekly Internet feature BestArtEver posted by Andy Khouri of Comics Alliance, I came across the work of Mike Maihack; the discovery resulted in me interviewing the Tampa Bay, Florida based illustrator for the […]

War Horse, 2011. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston and Toby Kebbell. SYNOPSIS: A young boy Albert develops a relationship with the family horse he names Joey. They are split apart by the beginning of world war one and we follow Joey’s journey throughout […]

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, 2011. Directed by Steven Spielberg.Starring Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Toby Jones, Cary Elwes and Mackenzie Crook. SYNOPSIS: Intrepid reporter Tintin and the surly Captain Haddock search for a sunken treasure ship commanded by Haddock’s ancestor, but what shady forces look […]

Steven Spielberg has been doing the press rounds to promote The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse and the ever-busy filmmaker has taken the opportunity to update the status of some of his upcoming projects, including the highly-anticipated fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, the not-so-highly-anticipated-judging-by-its-box-office sequel to The Secret of the Unicorn, and […]