This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox this morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of All Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen […]

The Octagon, 1980. Directed by Erik Karson. Starring Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Tadashi Yamashita, Richard Norton, Art Hindle, Kim Lankford and Yuki Shimoda. SYNOPSIS: A martial artist battles an international terrorist organisation of ninjas. Cashing in on The Expendables 2 is a double release of old Chuck Norris classics on Blu-Ray. There’s […]

There’s been another twist in the long-running saga of Ron Howard and Brian Glazer’s proposed adaptation of Stephen King’s magnum opus The Dark Tower today with the news that Warner Bros. are likely to make a decision within the next two weeks about whether to proceed with the first instalment of what could potentially become […]

Luke Owen gives us the lowdown on X-Men: Days of Future Past and looks at the possibilities for Fox’s newly-announced movie adaptation… Yesterday saw the announcement of the title to the X-Men: First Class sequel – X-Men: Days of Future Past. This didn’t come to a surprise to many as it has been rumoured for […]

Total Recall, 2012. Directed by Len Wiseman. Starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, Bookee Woodbine, Bill Nighy and John Cho. SYNOPSIS: A factory worker haunted by a recurring dream and bored with the routine nature of his existence seeks fake memory implants only to have them unlock recollections of another life. In […]

A Force of One, 1979. Directed by Paul Aaron. Starring Chuck Norris, Jennifer O’Neill, Ron O’Neal, Clu Gulager and Bill Wallace. SYNOPSIS: Matt Logan (Chuck Norris), a noted karate champion, is enlisted by the police to help catch a deadly assassin, and things become personal when Logan’s adopted son becomes the killer’s latest victim. Chuck […]

Project X, 2012. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh. Starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Nichole Bloom and Alexis Knapp. SYNOPSIS: Three high school friends throw a party to build their popularity, but things soon escalate beyond their control. Project X is one of the latest movies to try out the found footage gimmick. It […]

Luke Owen gives us the lowdown on Captain America’s newest adversary, Winter Soldier… Announced at Comic-Con along with Thor: The Dark World, Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy was the title of the sequel to Joe Johnston’s Captain America: The First Avenger – Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This came more or less as no […]

Last month saw a new twist in the seemingly never-ending saga of Ghostbusters 3 when it was announced that Sony had called Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder, Men in Black 3) to deliver a new script for the long-mooted third instalment of the Ghostbusters franchise. At the time, it was reported that cast members Harold Ramis, […]

The Devil Inside, 2012. Directed by William Brent Bell. Starring Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman, Evan Helmuth and Suzan Crowley. SYNOPSIS: A woman becomes involved a series of exorcisms as she searches for the truth about her mother, who confessed to three brutal murders which occurred during her own exorcism. The Paranormal Activity series has given […]