Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… It was thought that the conclusion of the Cleveland leg of The Dark Knight Rises shoot would put an end to the incessant wave of spoilers coming out of Christopher Nolan’s third and final Batman feature, but this past […]

With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the previous entry here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE VI – RETURN OF THE JEDI Now I must admit, I’m not the greatest fan of Return of the Jedi, but while much of Episode […]

The Last American Hero, 1973. Directed by Lamont Johnson. Starring Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey and Geraldine Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: Elroy ‘Junior’ Jackson helps his bootlegger father transport moonshine. After accidentally getting his father arrested, Junior looks at raising money through demolition derby and NASCAR racing to raise the cash needed to free […]

With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the introduction to this series here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE The 20th Century Fox fanfare fades and a hush overcomes the cinema as a title card fills the […]

The Guard, 2011. Directed by John Michael McDonagh.Starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan and Mark Strong. SYNOPSIS: A small town Irish cop with a confrontational personality teams up with an FBI agent to investigate an international cocaine-smuggling ring. The Guard is an small, off-beat film that works well as a […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood – “Burning Down the House”… Our episode begins with a couple of revelations. Well about two and a half if you really want to be technical. In stopping her new boy-toy, Eric, from introducing her past lover to […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning film editor Anne V. Coates about Lawrence of Arabia… “I was doing some turning out in England the other day because I’m selling my apartment there,” recalls British film editor Anne V. Coates who made a surprising discovery. “I came across this letter which said, ‘Dear Mr. Spiegel, I […]

Liam Trim discusses the cinematic adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day in the third of a three-part feature (read parts one and two)… Anne Hathaway’s performance in One Day may be flawed and ultimately a letdown, for cinemagoers and fans of the book alike, but she has one huge advantage over co-star Jim Sturgess; people […]

Horrible Bosses, 2011. Written and Directed by Seth Gordon. Starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. SYNOPSIS: Three friends conspire to murder each of their horrible bosses. Sometimes a cast can really say it all. You see a comedy with the cast/comedic pedigree of Horrible Bosses […]

Liam Trim discusses the cinematic adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day in the second of a three part feature (read part one here)… In Part One I reviewed One Day and compared it to the phenomenally successful book it’s based upon. This is Part Two, in which I suggest alternatives to Anne Hathaway. I know, […]