Lebanon, 2009. Written & Directed by Samuel Maoz. Starring Yoav Donat, Zohar Shtrauss, Oshri Cohen. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1982, and the First Lebanon War has just begun. New gunner Shmulik (Yoav Donat) is assigned to a tank team led by Assi (Itay Tiran) along with Hertzel (Oshri Cohen) the shell loader and Yigal (Michael Moshonov) the […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of filmmaker Ridley Scott in the fourth of a five part feature… read parts one, two and three. Producing an historic epic about a disgraced Roman general who seeks to reclaim his honour by becoming a Coliseum fighter was not originally Ridley Scott’s idea. “I was approached by Walter Parkes […]

Cemetery Junction, 2010. Directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Starring Christian Cooke, Tom Hughes, Jack Doolan, Felicity Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Julia Davis and Ricky Gervais. SYNOPSIS: A British coming-of-age comedy set in the not-so-swinging ’70s. In 1970s Reading, three friends, Freddie (Christian Cooke), Bruce (Tom Hughes) and Snork (Jack Doolan) split their […]

Roger Holland on the ‘ultimate everyman’, John Cusack… This article contains a fair few spoilers. If you haven’t seen Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity, shame on you. Also you may want to stop reading. Following her break-up with Lloyd Dobler, Diane Court lies in bed unable to sleep. Faintly at first, the […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Boxing Movies… Screen interpretations of the sweet science can be traced back to the silent era, with movies such as Buster Keaton’s Battling Butler (1926) and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Ring (1927) paving the way for the film noir offerings of the Forties and Fifties. After a dry period the […]

With a remake of the original A Nightmare in Elm Street currently in cinemas, Luke Owen looks back over the classic horror franchise… Freddy Krueger is one of the biggest horror icons in the world. Even people who have never sat down and watched a Nightmare movie know who Freddy Krueger is. He has featured […]

Hot Tub Time Machine, 2010. Directed by Steve Pink. Starring John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Crispin Glover and Chevy Chase. SYNOPSIS: Three middle-aged friends, Adam, Lou and Nick, unhappy with the directions their lives have taken, head to a ski resort for a weekend away with Adam’s nephew Jacob reluctantly in tow. […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of filmmaker Ridley Scott in the third of a five part feature… read part one and part two. Inspired by the title of a George and Ira Gershwin song (sung on the movie soundtrack by Sting, Roberta Flack, and Gene Ammons), filmmaker Ridley Scott produced his first modern-day picture Someone […]

The Joneses, 2009. Directed by Derrick Borte. Starring David Duchovny, Demi Moore, Amber Head and Ben Hollingsworth. SYNOPSIS: A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighbourhood but when it comes to the truth as to why they’re living there they don’t exactly come clean with their neighbours. I had seen the posters with confusion […]

Iron Man 2, 2010. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Robert Downey Jr, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Scarlett Johansson. SYNOPSIS: An unmasked Tony Stark is pressured to relinquish the ‘Iron Man weapon’ to the US government, while Sam Rockwell’s Justin Hammer is developing rival weaponry. Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) aka Whiplash arrives on the scene […]