Drive, 2011. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman. SYNOPSIS: When a Hollywood stuntman and in-demand getaway driver finds himself double-crossed by the mob, his only choice is to drive for his life. Much had been made of Drive before it […]

Red State, 2011. Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Melissa Leo, Michael Parks, Stephen Root and John Goodman. SYNOPSIS: Three teens get more than they bargained for when they respond to an online sex advertisement, which leads them to a group of religious fundamentalists with a sinister hidden agenda. ‘Written […]

Quatermass and the Pit (US: Five Million Years to Earth), 1967. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover. SYNOPSIS: When a Martian spacecraft linked to the origins of humanity is discovered at a London tube station, only Professor Bernard Quatermass is capable of unravelling its mysteries. If […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The recent ‘synopsis’ from The Dark Knight Rises may have been a bit of waste of time but some interesting bits and pieces have came out of the Los Angeles shoot this past week, the most intriguing (and spoilery) […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… In previous Page and Screens I’ve referred to the book How Fiction Works by James Wood. Last night, after returning home from seeing Beginners, I immediately plucked it off the shelf. Despite all the quirkiness of Mike Mills’s indie rom com, trying so hard to […]

Apple co-founder and former Pixar Animation Studios chief executive Steve Jobs passed away yesterday after losing a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56. Born in San Francisco, California in 1955, Jobs went on to become one of the most successful entreprenuers of the digital age after forming Apple, Inc. in the mid-1970s, and was […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood in the third of a five-part feature (read parts one and two)… “You’ve got to keep stretching out and trying other stuff,” observed actor and director Clint Eastwood. “I could have chosen a lot of scripts that were different than Bronco Billy [1980], that were […]

It’s been rumoured for quite some time that Warner Bros. were cooking up a new small-screen animated Batman series to debut sometime after the arrival of Christopher Nolan’s final theatrical effort, The Dark Knight Rises, and now WB Animation exec Sam Register has officially revealed details of the project during his keynote speech at the […]

The Bang Bang Club, 2010. Directed by Steven Silver. Starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Ashley Mulheron. SYNOPSIS: Four combat photographers in the early 1990s capture the atrocities of apartheid in South Africa on camera whilst risking their lives to get the all-important shots to show the world […]

Rio Breaks, 2009. Directed by Justin Mitchell. SYNOPSIS: Two best friends look to escape the poverty and violence of the slums of Rio de Janeiro by taking to the waves with dreams of becoming professional surfers. First of all, I should probably confess that I have very little knowledge about surfing and my familiarity with […]