The Emmy Award-winning actor Peter Falk has passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 83. Although no cause of death has been released, the screen veteran, who was best known for his portrayal as the TV detective Columbo, had been battling dementia and Alzheimer’s disease for some time. Born in New York […]

Missing Pieces, 2011. Written and Directed by Kenton Bartlett. Starring Mark Boone Junior, Melora Walters and Alana Jordan. SYNOPSIS: A kidnapper tries to make two lonely souls fall in love by putting them through a series of unique situations. Originality is what I always strive for in a review. Why read my specific review if […]

Senna, 2010. Directed by Asif Kapadia. SYNOPSIS: A documentary on the three-time Formula One racing legend Ayrton Senna. Anyone with even a fleeting interest in motor sport has heard of Ayrton Senna, but his heyday was a little before my time. I remember briefly his tussles with Nigel Mansell when I was a kid, but […]

Rohan Morbey selects his Five Essential Tom Cruise Films… In a career spanning over 25 years, Tom Cruise has been one of the top grossing stars at the global box office throughout the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, with his films topping $2.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales. He became the first actor in history to […]

Liam Trim discusses Flaubert’s cinematic Madame Bovary… Gustave Flaubert’s mid nineteenth century novel Madame Bovary might not appear all that remarkable if you read it today. At the time its focus on the limitations of marriage, along with its abundance of controversial ingredients like frequent and shameless adultery and suicide, made it a scandalous work […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the third of a six-part feature… read parts one and two. “We both have a tradition that, when we have a film opening for which there are high expectations, we get out of town,” stated filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who vacationed with colleague George Lucas […]

Ghosted, 2011. Directed by Craig Viveiros. Starring John Lynch, David Schofield, Martin Compston, Craig Parkinson and Art Malik. SYNOPSIS: A model prisoner risk his own life and sanity to help a newcomer who has fallen under the spell of a psychotic convict. Do you think you could hack it behind bars? If you’re a Daily […]

World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2, 2011. Directed by Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates. Starring Philip Brodie, Alix Wilton Regan, Rob Oldfield and Vicky Araico. SYNOPSIS: Britain has been inexplicably overrun by zombies and a surviving platoon of TA soldiers fight their way through hordes of the undead and groups of hostile survivors […]

Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of the MTV franchise Jackass, was killed earlier today in a car crash in West Goshen, Pennsylvania, aged just 34. According to TMZ, Dunn had posted images of himself out drinking with friends on Sunday night and died at approximately 3am when the car he was travelling in hit […]

Savage Streets, 1984. Directed by Danny Steinmann. Starring Linda Blair, John Vernon and Sal Landi. SYNOPSIS: Brenda (played by the pixie faced Linda Blair) and Heather (80’s scream queen Linnea Quigley) are two very close sisters. Brenda keeps her young deaf sister under her watchful eye at all times, until one fateful day when a […]