Brotherhood, 2010. Directed by Will Canon. Starring Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Arlen Escarpeta, Jesse Steccato and Jennifer Sipes. SYNOPSIS: When an initiation prank goes horribly wrong the members of a college fraternity desperately try to suppress the truth and take ever more desperate steps to cover their tracks, forcing one pledge to […]

Academy Award winning composer John Barry has passed away after suffering a fatal heart attack, aged 77. Born in York in 1933, Barry began performing as a musician during his National Service and formed The John Barry Seven before going on to work for the BBC on the likes of Juke Box Jury and Drumbeat. […]

Rising British actor Henry Cavill has been cast as Superman in Zack Snyder’s upcoming reboot Man of Steel, with the director releasing a statement today to confirm the news. Cavill is best known for his work on the television period drama The Tudors, while his feature credits include The Count of Monte Cristo (2002, dir. […]

Life in a Day, 2011. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Produced by Ridley Scott. SYNOPSIS: A documentary compiled from thousands of hours of footage by YouTube users that tells the story of a single day on earth. Life in a Day is the result of director Kevin MacDonald’s plea to the YouTube community to record one […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Over the past few weeks we’ve enjoyed plenty of juicy superhero headlines, from the first reveal of Chris Evans in costume as Captain America: The First Avenger, Andrew Garfield in the Untitled Spider-Man Reboot and the cast of Matthew Vaughn’s […]

Simon Moore selects his Five Essential James Bond Films… Picture this. It’s Saturday night. The TV schedule has failed you, yet again, on a Bank Holiday weekend, no less. Then a title jumps out at you from the onscreen menu. Ah… there’s a Bond film on… It doesn’t matter what title, it doesn’t matter when […]

The Thin Red Line, 1964. Directed by Andrew Marton. Starring Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Kieron Moore, Ray Daley and Bob Kanter. SYNOPSIS: A private and his sergeant clash during the heat of battle as American G.I.’s fight the Japanese in the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. In 1998 acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick […]

Following his Academy Award nomination for Best Director on The King’s Speech, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Tom Hooper in the first of a two-part feature… “I fell in love with directing at the age of twelve, at prep school in Highgate,” stated British filmmaker Tom Hooper who as a student came […]

Bernd Eichinger, producer of The Neverending Story, Perfume and Downfall, has passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 61. The legendary producer suffered a heart attack in his home whilst eating with family and is survived by his wife and daughter. Eichinger, as well as his work on independent features, produced the first […]

Indie filmmaker Kevin Smith debuted his latest offering Red State to a mixed reaction at Sundance on Sunday evening, but the biggest news came from the subsequent Q&A session in which the Clerks director announced that he would be adopting the unusual approach of distributing the film himself via ‘SModcast Pictures’. Smith’s plan is to […]