Tom Jolliffe with a retrospective on the career of cult actor Rutger Hauer… In a career that has encompassed indie, cult, mainstream, and cinema from a range of different countries, Rutger Hauer has offered movie audiences a vast array of characters, in an eclectic grouping of genres. Born in Holland, Hauer was something of a […]

Trevor Hogg reviews The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back… Carrying on the tradition he established with the original Star Wars, and the Indiana Jones franchise, author J.W. Rinzler delves once again into the Lucasfilm archives to assemble a detailed history on “one of the milestones of cinema”. Dividing his research over eleven […]

Luke Owen reports on a special Halloween screening of An American Werewolf in London courtesy of Volkswagen’s “See Film Differently”… Last Sunday, on Halloween, I was invited to the first instalment of Volkswagen’s ‘See Film Differently’ programme – a project that aims to “turns the camera on the locations” by screening films in the places […]

An American Werewolf in London, 1981. Directed by John Landis. Starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter. SYNOPSIS: After being attacked on the moors by a lycanthrope, an American student finds himself afflicted by the curse of the werewolf. [Note – this review is from the Halloween screening held at London Zoo as part […]

Up in the Air, 2009. Directed by Jason Reitman. Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Melanie Lynskey, Zach Galifianakis, J. K. Simmons and Sam Elliott. SYNOPSIS: An airborne corporate downsizer discovers that life on the move can be a lonely business. There are basically two George Clooneys. There’s the lovable, charming, cocky […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the first of a five-part feature… “I used to have synchronized movies,” recalled filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola of his industrious childhood. “Most of them I cut together from home movies my family had shot.” Charging admission for the neighbourhood screenings, the cinematic venture […]

Kaboom, 2010. Written and Directed by Gregg Araki. Starring Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett and James Duval. SYNOPSIS: Kaboom focuses on Smith, a film student studying at college, lusting after his dumb-surfer room-mate, hooking up with British acquaintance London and hanging out with best friend Stella. He keeps getting recurring dreams of walking down […]

With his time as Governor of California drawing to a close what might the future hold for Arnold Schwarzenegger..? From humble origins in post-war Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone on to enjoy an extraordinary career and achieved unprecedented success in three vastly different professions. Rising to the summit of the bodybuilding world with seven Mr. […]

Predators, 2010. Directed by Nimród Antal. Starring Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alica Braga, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Oleg Taktarov and Louis Ozawa Changchien. SYNOPSIS: A small group of humans find themselves on a hostile extraterrestrial world which acts as a game preserve for the merciless alien species known as the Predators. […]

The Social Network, 2010. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer and Max Minghella. SYNOPSIS: A biopic on Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of popular social networking site Facebook. “Who on earth would want to make a film about Facebook?” was my first remark upon […]