Unthinkable, 2010. Directed by Gregor Jordan. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen, Brandon Routh, Carrie-Anne Moss, Stephen Root, Gil Bellows, Martin Donovan, Yara Shahidi, Sasha Roiz and Vincent Laresca. SYNOPSIS: A black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent have just two days to press a terror suspect into revealing the location of three nuclear bombs primed […]

Liam Trim provides some alternatives to the Royal Wedding in the second of a three part feature… My second suggestion of anti-Royal Wedding medication for the ordinary man, following the sensational spectacle of Thor, is a single strong dose of BBC drama United, shown on Sunday and now available on iPlayer. If Thor was grounded […]

Thief, 1981. Written and Directed by Michael Mann. Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi, Dennis Farina, William Petersen and Robert Prosky. SYNOPSIS: A professional safecracker’s plan for going straight spirals out-of-control when he becomes indebted to a crime boss. Leaving behind the prison walls of his Emmy-winning T.V. movie The Jericho Mile, 1981 saw […]

It’s been rumoured for a while but now its official – Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to return to his signature role as the unstoppable killing machine (now with added rust!) in a new instalment of the Terminator franchise. Deadline reports that Arnie and director Justin Lin (The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious […]

Three Kings, 1999. Written and Directed by David O. Russell. Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis, Nora Dunn and Jamie Kennedy. SYNOPSIS: Determined to take home more than sand fleas in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, four American soldiers go off into the Iraqi desert to find millions […]

Liam Trim provides some alternatives to the Royal Wedding in the first of a three part feature… If you’re not fed up with the circus yet, you soon will be. Every clowning performer, every newsreader, commentator and gushing crowd member, will be salt rubbed into your severely wounded mood. Gossiping and gawping at two rich […]

A third outing for those Wyld Stallyns, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan, has been rumoured for nigh on twenty years now, but things appear to be moving forward at pace as Alex Winter revealed via Twitter that he’s got his hands on a completed screenplay. Bill & Ted 3 first took a […]

Simon Moore selects his Five Essential Misfit Movies… So called because they feature (and appeal to) misfits of all ages. Why not ‘Teen Movies’? Reeks a bit of Disneyfication to me. Brings to mind the ruthless, sickeningly effective demographic hunting tactics of High School Musical or the Twilight saga. There’s no place for such non-smutty […]

I Saw The Devil (a.k.a. Akmareul boatda), 2010. Directed by Jee-woon Kim. Starring Byung-hun Lee and Min-sik Choi. SYNOPSIS: A serial killer has long evaded the best efforts of the authorities until he picks the wrong victim – the daughter of a retired police chief and fiancée to a Korean Secret Service agent. It will […]

Thor, 2011. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, Jaimie Alexander, Joshua Dallas, Tadanobu Asano, Clark Gregg, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: The arrogant and reckless warrior Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is stripped of his powers […]