Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the third of a five part feature… read parts one and two. In the screenplay Night Skies drafted by American filmmaker John Sayles (Passion Fish), a violent space creature has the ability to kill with a touch of its boney finger. One of […]
Thoughts on… Buried (2010)
Buried, 2010. Directed by Rodrigo Cortés. Starring Ryan Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds), an American contractor working in Iraq, wakes to find himself buried alive inside a wooden coffin, somewhere in the desert. With only a mobile phone and a lighter, he must work out why he has been buried and more importantly, how […]
Cult Cinema: What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
What Have You Done to Solange? a.k.a Who’s Next? (Italian: Cosa avete fatto a Solange?), 1971. Directed by Massimo Dallamano. Starring Fabio Testi, Cristina Galbó, Karin Baal, and Joachim Fuchsberger. SYNOPSIS: A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students takes her out on a boat when they witness a knife killing […]
Five Essential… British Film Directors
Gary Collinson presents Five Essential British Film Directors… With his latest film Inception grossing over $271m to date in North America, director Christopher Nolan has officially overtaken fellow countryman Ridley Scott to become the most financially successful British filmmaker of all time. This is a marvellous achievement when you consider the fact he’s made just […]
Encountering Spielberg: A Steven Spielberg Profile (Part 2)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the second of a five part feature… read part one here. In an effort to gain access to their son, Ila Fae Holiday and Robert Dent kidnapped a patrolman causing them to be pursued by a massive Texan police convoy; the 1969 incident […]
British Cinema: Kandahar Break (2009)
Kandahar Break: Fortress of War, 2009. Directed by David Whitney. Starring Shaun Dooley, Dean Andrews, Rasheed Naz and Tatmain Ul Qulb. SYNOPSIS: A British mine clearance engineer is pursued across the desert after falling foul of a corrupt police chief in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The feature debut of British writer-director David Whitney, Kandahar Break: Fortress of […]
Cult Cinema: The Strange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
The Strange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh, 1971. Directed by Sergio Martino. Starring George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Conchita Airoldi, Manuel Gil and Carlo Alighiero. SYNOPSIS: A restless woman becomes embroiled in a horrifying mystery that threatens to drive her to the brink of madness… or worse. Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh (1971) is a Giallo […]
Movies That Might Have Been – The Beatles Do The Lord of the Rings
Gary Collinson ponders the fate of The Lord of the Rings had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings were surely satisfied with Peter Jackson’s Award-winning trilogy, which remained pretty much faithful to the sacred […]
Movie Review – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, 2010. Directed by Edgar Wright. Starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong, and Kieran Culkin. SYNOPSIS: In order to date the girl of his dreams Ramona Flowers, Scott Pilgrim must defeat her seven evil ex’s. Having so much hype around a film can ensure that unless the film lives […]
Encountering Spielberg: A Steven Spielberg Profile (Part 1)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the first of a five part feature… “My childhood was bad and it was good. It was chaotic; it was noisy; it was real loud. I have a big family, with three younger sisters,” stated American filmmaker Steven Spielberg whose reserved father, Arnold, […]