Legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet has died today from lymphoma at his Manhattan home, aged 86. Born in Philadelphia in 1924 to show business parents, the Academy Award-nominated director enjoyed a long and distinguished career, becoming one of the pre-eminent figures of the New York filmmaking scene with over fifty film credits to his name. As […]
The Week in Spandex – Green Lantern footage and The Dark Knight Rises casting puts Marvel in the shade
Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest talking points from the world of movie superheroes… 2011 has started brightly for superhero fans with the last few months delivering flood of images, trailers and gossip from all of the year’s big comic book adaptations – Thor, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern and Captain America: The First […]
Movie Review – Source Code (2011)
Source Code, 2011. Directed by Duncan Jones . Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga. SYNOPSIS: Captain Colter Stevens, a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, wakes up in the body of a man he doesn’t recognise on a commuter train to Chicago. Before he can comprehend anything, a bomb goes off, killing him and everyone on […]
Movie Review – 13 Assassins (2010)
13 Assassins (Jûsan-nin no shikaku), 2010. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada and Yuseke Iseya. SYNOPSIS: The sadistic Lord Naritsugu, brother of the Shogun and therefore above the law, commits a string of atrocities across feudal Japan. The samurai Shinzaemon Shimada is hired to assassinate him, hiring a team of samurai assassins […]
DVD Review – Rubber (2010)
Rubber, 2010. Directed by Quentin Dupieux. Starring Stephen Spinella, Roxanne Mesquida, Jack Plotnick and Wings Hauser. SYNOPSIS: In the California desert, a group of spectators watch through binoculars as a tyre come to life and starts to go on a killing spree. It does help if a film makes sense. Some of the biggest film […]
Michael Fassbender gets Good Vibrations
Michael Fassbender has signed up to star in a biopic about the life of punk legend Terri Hooley, the founder of a record store in Belfast called ‘Good Vibrations’. The store later evolved into a music label, which kick-started the careers of a number of Irish punk bands. The German-born actor, who grew up in […]
Special Features – Take a stroll with The Walking Dead
Sean Guard on the first season of Frank Darabont’s acclaimed zombie series The Walking Dead… Last year’s Halloween frenzy was a pretty decent one in my opinion. I love horror flicks, I mean I love them. There isn’t quite anything like being scared. Suspense building up inside of you, heart pounding so hard it feels […]
Image Conscious: A conversation with visual effects supervisor Bryan Hirota
Trevor Hogg talks with Sucker Punch and The Tree of Life visual effects supervisor Bryan Hirota… One of the recent additions to the staff of Pixomondo is veteran visual effects supervisor Bryan Hirota; he has worked on over 50 films starting with Demolition Man (1993) as a computer graphics designer. “My Mother has a Masters […]
DVD Review – My Soul to Take (2010)
My Soul to Take, 2010. Written and Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Max Thieriot, John Magaro and Denzel Whitaker. SYNOPSIS: Sixteen years after his murderous rampage, the Riverton Ripper has seemingly returned to Riverton, with the seven children born the day he died in his sights. But does one of the seven hold the key […]
DVD Review – Barbarossa: Siege Lord (2009)
Barbarossa: Siege Lord a.k.a. Sword of War, 2009. Directed by Renzo Martinelli. Starring Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan and F. Murray Abraham. SYNOPSIS: In Northern Italy, the Germanic Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (Rutger Hauer) plans to capture the regions of the South and Centre to recreate the empire, leading to deadly clashes between the people of the […]