Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… The idea of character is more complicated than we allow ourselves to realise. Of course put simply they are made up, fictional people in stories. But there are those who wish to challenge such a casual assumption. Some say they are merely bundles of words. […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the fifth of a six part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “One of the exercises I wanted to do after Jedi [1983] was to see if the companies I had built could survive not having Star Wars in their life,” stated […]

Tom Jolliffe looks back at the career of Mark Dacascos… Sometimes there is someone who flirts with the big time, but for one reason or another, never quite makes it. In the grand pantheon of action star legends, you will remember such luminaries as Arnold, Sly, Jean Claude, Steven and Dolph. They forged lasting careers, […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood, ‘You Smell Like Dinner’… Oh my stakes! I know that was pretty cheesy but it was meant to be. This week’s episode was possibly even bigger than the major hype that last week’s premiere brought along with it. […]

The Conspirator, 2010. Directed by Robert Redford. Starring James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long and Colm Meaney. SYNOPSIS: The lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth […]

Henry of Navarre a.k.a. Henri 4, 2010. Directed by Jo Baier. Starring Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król and Andreas Schmidt. SYNOPSIS: After the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, the Protestant Henry of Navarre must use all of his guile both to stay alive and maneuver for the throne of France. July the 4th is of course a […]

The Violent Kind, 2010. Directed by Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores. Starring Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis and Tiffany Shepis. SYNOPSIS: One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely […]

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 2011. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Malkovich, Alan Tudyk, Frances McDormand, Peter Cullen, Leonard Nimoy and Hugo Weaving. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day, threatening to unleash […]

Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill, 2008. Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. Starring David Kross, Christian Redl and Daniel Brühl. SYNOPSIS: A boy goes to work at a mysterious mill and learns the black arts from a sorcerer. After a ‘30 years war’, most of Europe is devastated and the people are suffering from […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With the recent box office disappointment of Green Lantern (which currently stands on a world-wide gross of just $125m), TheWrap posted an article this past week looking at reasons why 2011’s ‘superhero summer’ has been ‘a bust’. Now, I’m not […]