With his time as Governor of California drawing to a close what might the future hold for Arnold Schwarzenegger..? From humble origins in post-war Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone on to enjoy an extraordinary career and achieved unprecedented success in three vastly different professions. Rising to the summit of the bodybuilding world with seven Mr. […]
Thoughts on… Predators (2010)
Predators, 2010. Directed by Nimród Antal. Starring Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alica Braga, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Oleg Taktarov and Louis Ozawa Changchien. SYNOPSIS: A small group of humans find themselves on a hostile extraterrestrial world which acts as a game preserve for the merciless alien species known as the Predators. […]
More Thoughts on… The Social Network (2010)
The Social Network, 2010. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer and Max Minghella. SYNOPSIS: A biopic on Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of popular social networking site Facebook. “Who on earth would want to make a film about Facebook?” was my first remark upon […]
Five Essential… Bruce Willis Films
Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Bruce Willis films… By the time the 80’s were in full swing, the muscle bound action hero era was at the forefront of blockbuster movies. Stallone was in his pomp, and so to was Arnold. The mono-syllabic tough guys with square jaws, rippling 12 packs and far more baby […]
54th BFI London Film Festival: 127 Hours (2010)
127 Hours, 2010. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Clémence Poésy and Lizzy Caplan. SYNOPSIS: The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston, who found himself trapped by a boulder for five days in May 2003. Slumdog Millionaire had phenomenal success, winning eight Oscars and seven BAFTA’s to name just […]
Special Features – A conversation with producer Daniel Pleacoff
Jon Dudley interviews Daniel Pleacoff, producer of Treasure of the Black Jaguar… Tell us a little about this project. Daniel: The project originally started with Masayuki Imai who was doing a film out in L.A. and the production wasn’t going really well, it was just kind of a mess. Cameron Van Hoy, who is the […]
54th BFI London Film Festival: 2010 Award Winners
The 54th BFI London Film Festival drew to a close yesterday with the announcement of the festival’s award winners at a star-studded ceremony in London’s LSO St Luke’s. The festival jury – chaired by Patricia Clarkson and including Gabriel Byrne, Sandy Powell and Shekhar Kapur – presented Russian director Aleksei Popogrebsky with the Best Film […]
Thoughts on… Treasure of the Black Jaguar (2010)
Treasure of the Black Jaguar, 2010. Directed by Mike Bruce. Starring Cameron Van Hoy, Michael Drayer, Timothy V. Murphy and Masayuki Imai. SYNOPSIS: Two boys discover that easy money is just a mirage when their desert-based caper takes a murderous turn. Treasure of the Black Jaguar is an American independent film that received a positive […]
A Legacy of His Own: A Doug Liman Profile (Part 2)
With his latest film Fair Game released later this year, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Doug Liman in the second of a two part feature… read part one. “I’ve always been a huge action film fan and a couple of friends of mine were in marriage therapy,” explained screenwriter Simon Kingberg as to […]
54th BFI London Film Festival: West is West Q&A
Coverage of the West is West Q&A from the London Film Festival… In attendance: Ayub Khan-Din (Writer) Lesley Nicol (Anne) Ila Arun (Basheera) Aquib Khan (Sajid) Emil Marwa (Maneer) Om Puri (George) It’s been eleven years since the first film (East is East) which was very successful. It seems an extraordinary long time for a […]
