Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… So, another week, another flood of leaks from the set of The Dark Knight Rises, beginning with video footage from the shoot at Heinz Field which drew fire from fans due to the ‘wacky’ voice Tom Hardy has adopted […]
DVD Review – Lock Up (2010)
Lock Up (Spanish: Cruzando el límite), 2010. Directed by Xavi Giménez. Starring Marcel Borràs, Carlos Cuevas, Adolfo Fernández and Cristina Dilla. SYNOPSIS: A troubled teen is admitted to a high-security rehabilitation centre in an attempt to curb his dangerously wayward behaviour. What a week it has been for the common folk of England. A week […]
Second Opinion – Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011. Directed by Joe Johnston. Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Sebastian Stan and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: During World War II, Steve Rogers is turned into the heroic super-soldier Captain America. In a summer schedule which has been jam-packed full of sequels, […]
The Dark Knight Rises: In Defence of Christopher Nolan
With filming underway on The Dark Knight Rises it’s becoming increasingly difficult to avoid all of the leaks coming out of the production, with a new set photo or video seemingly cropping up every five minutes. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t blown away by the spy shots of Tom Hardy […]
Page and Screen – Must Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming adaptation of The Great Gatsby be set in the Roaring Twenties?
Liam Trim with the latest edition of Page and Screen… Some stories will always be set in certain times and places. It’s impossible to imagine most Dickensian tales grounded in a world without workhouses and industrial poverty, for example. Similarly Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes would feel out of place investigating crime anywhere other than […]
Swords & Aliens: Paul Inglis talks about Game of Thrones and Prometheus
Trevor Hogg chats with art director Paul Inglis about ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Prometheus’… “What’s great about the way Dan [Weiss] and David [Benioff], the show’s creators and main writers, adapted the books was that there was a concrete feel on the page, of what those environments needed to be,” states Paul Inglis who served […]
Second Opinion – Super 8 (2011)
Super 8, 2011. Written and Directed by J.J. Abrams. Starring Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Riley Griffiths, Noah Emmerich and Glynn Turman. SYNOPSIS: A group of young filmmakers witness a spectacular event that changes their lives forever. THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS… Before we started, let’s get one thing straight. There is no ‘new’ […]
DVD Review – As Blood Runs Deep (2010)
As Blood Runs Deep (a.k.a. Meskada), 2010. Directed by Josh Sternfeld. Starring Nick Stahl, Rachel Nichols, Kellan Lutz, Jonathan Tucker, Grace Gummer and Laura Benanti. SYNOPSIS: Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy’s mother, Allison Connor, […]
Review Blood: True Blood Recap 4.7 – “Cold Grey Light of Dawn”
Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood, “Cold Grey Light of Dawn”… The full moon evening that took us to the end of the last episode also opens the beginning of this one. Sookie and Eric must really have been pretty backed up because they’re […]
DVD Review – The Lost Bladesman (2011)
The Lost Bladesman (China: Guan yun chang), 2011. Written and Directed by Felix Chong, Alan Mak. Starring Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Yu Ai Lei, Hong Chen and Siu-hou Chin. SYNOPSIS: In ancient China, the legendary warrior Guan Yun Chang (Donnie Yen) is forced to fight for a rival warlord during the warring period of the […]