Our weekly round-up of all the big talking points from the world of movie superheroes… As you’d expect with just days to go until the UK release of X-Men: First Class, the mutant marketing machine has gone into overdrive this past week and, judging by the critical reception so far, it seems as if Matthew […]

Director of the outstanding Snowtown – Justin Kurzel – took some time out of his well deserved Cannes-paign to talk with Blake Howard about the experience of his masterpiece… BH: Snowtown feels like a scientific experiment, it creates/portrays the conditions that a serial killing troupe can exist. How much did the setting and local cast affect […]

Snowtown, 2011. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway and Craig Coyne. SYNOPSIS: A drama about the Australian serial killer John Bunting. For those of you out there sick of the raft of Australian true crime T.V interpretations with poor production value, generic formal style and that perhaps ‘glamorize’ society’s ‘underbelly’; Snowtown feels […]

Liam Trim on the viral marketing campaigns of The Dark Knight Rises and Super 8…Last week the hype for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, moved into top gear with the launch of a clever and mysterious publicity campaign. On Thursday the 19th of May the official website became active, only to […]

Zombie Undead, 2010. Directed by Rhys Davies. Starring Ruth King, Kris Tearse, Barry Thomas and Christopher J. Herbert. SYNOPSIS: A small group of survivors attempt to escape the confines of a medical evacuation building after a zombie outbreak. This is one of those films with a Ronseal title. There are lots of zombies and zombies […]

Ali, 2001. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mykelti Williamson. SYNOPSIS: The movie depicts a decade in the life of Muhammad Ali, beginning with the legendary athlete’s defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964 and concluding with his 1974 ‘Rumble […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011. Directed by Rob Marshall. Starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Richard Griffiths, Stephen Graham, Judi Dench, Greg Ellis, Damian O’Hare, Gemma Ward, Roger Allam and Keith Richards. SYNOPSIS: Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with Black Beard (Ian McShane) and his enigmatic daughter […]

Max Schmeling: Fist of the Reich, 2010. Directed by Uwe Boll. Starring Henry Maske, Susanne Wuest, Heino Ferch, Vladimir Weigl and Yoan Pablo Hernández. SYNOPSIS: A biopic of the German boxer and heavyweight champion Max Schmeling. Nazi Germany is a historical setting we are all familiar with. Films set within the Third Reich often have […]

Our weekly round-up of all the talking points from the world of movie superheroes… Well, just when it was shaping up to be a quiet week in the land of cinematic superherodom what goes and happens? Warner Bros. deliver the first image of Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, that’s what! Things […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, 2011. Directed by Rob Marshall. Starring Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Richard Griffiths, Stephen Graham, Judi Dench, Greg Ellis, Damian O’Hare, Gemma Ward, Roger Allam and Keith Richards. SYNOPSIS: Captain Jack Sparrow embarks on an adventure to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. […]