Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood in the fifth of a five part feature (read parts one, two, three and four)… “Maybe the title of Space Cowboys [2000] is a bit misleading because it is mostly about the pioneers of space,” stated Clint Eastwood when discussing the story about four former […]
Movie Review – Colombiana (2011)
Colombiana, 2011. Directed by Olivier Megaton. Starring Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis and Lennie James. SYNOPSIS: A young woman, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. This is a no holds barred ‘vengeance actioner’ with the great Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) getting a […]
Mickey Rourke leaves The Expendables 2, joins Seven Psychopaths instead
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Iron Man 2) has dropped out of the action star-studded Expendables sequel and is in talks to appear in the next film by writer / director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). Rourke was due to reprise his role in The Expendables 2 alongside Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude […]
55th BFI London Film Festival – We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
We Need to Talk About Kevin, 2011. Directed by Lynne Ramsay. Starring John C. Reilly, Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, Siobhan Fallon, Ursula Parker and Ashley Gerasimovich. SYNOPSIS: A mother attempts to deal with her guilt and grief over her son, who is responsible for a high-school killing spree. Having seen posters dotted around various tube […]
Second Opinion – Drive (2011)
Drive, 2011. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman. SYNOPSIS: A Hollywood stunt driver (Gosling) moonlighting as a ‘wheelman’ discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong. Drive is currently wrestling Red State at the […]
55th BFI London Film Festival – Headhunters (2011)
Headhunters (Norwegian: Hodejegerne), 2011. Directed by Morten Tyldum. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Ølgaard and Aksel Hennie. SYNOPSIS: A successful headhunter risks everything in his efforts to steal a valuable painting. Headhunters is the first book-to-film adaptation of the highly regarded and critically acclaimed Norwegian thriller writer Jo Nesbo. Having previous refused to have his […]
DVD Review – The Ward (2010)
The Ward, 2010. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Amber Heard, Jared Harris, Danielle Panabaker, Mika Boorem and Lyndsy Fonseca. SYNOPSIS: After burning down a farmhouse, Kristen (Amber Heard) is institutionalised, but she is far from safe, as a ghost appears to be hunting down her ward-mates and brutally murdering them. [WARNING, THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MORE […]
DVD Review – This Boy’s Life (1993)
This Boy’s Life, 2011. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Starring Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Barkin, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper, Carla Gugino and Tobey Maguire. SYNOPSIS: Desperate to make a decent life for her and her son, a divorced mother takes up residence with a bullying tyrant who is determined to make the […]
DVD Review – Deep Winter (2008)
Deep Winter, 2008. Directed by Mikey Hilb. Starring Eric Lively, Kellan Lutz, Michael Madsen, Peyton List and Luke Goss. SYNOPSIS: Two snowboarders make it their goal to conquer an unrideable mountain. When is a film not a film? When it’s an extreme sports video with a story stapled on in a panic at the last […]
Movie Review – Midnight in Paris (2011)
Midnight in Paris, 2011. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda and Carla Bruni. SYNOPSIS: A screenwriter is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his fiancée after magical experiences in the French capital. Woody Allen’s latest film shows […]
