As part of the BFI’s Studio Ghibli Season, Oliver Davis revisits The Cat Returns… “But look at how they walk,” she squirmed, uncomfortably, at the cats awkwardly moving forward on their hind legs. “It’s creepy. I don’t wanna watch anymore.” And so, about 20 minutes in, we switched over. She was right, you know. The […]

With the new movie released tomorrow, Luke Owen looks at the Top 5 Godzilla movies…. For the last 60 years, one giant monster has stood tall above all others – the King of the Monsters: Godzilla. Since his first appearance in 1954, Godzilla has torn up cinema screens in Japan and around the world in […]

Luke Owen reviews the penultimate episode of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series…. We’ve reached the ninth step of this ten-episode run and… well… it just got odd. Not ‘odd’ in a good way, but ‘odd’ in that perplexing kind of way where you find yourself asking, “just how did we get here?”. Richie Gecko […]

Trevor Hogg chats with showrunner Simon Barry and his leading lady Rachel Nichols about doing some time travelling in the streets of present day Vancouver and the future of television… “TV is more of a master to serve because you have this incredible schedule of production and post-production,” observes Simon Barry who wrote the feature […]

Oliver Davis reviews the sixth episode of Game of Thrones Season Four… The Laws of Gods and Men. Directed by Alik Sakharov. Written by Bryan Cogman. Davos Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) really is one of Westeros’ nice guys. Despite his best friend, Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane), locking him away in a dungeon for months on […]

When told that she had a spooky resemblance to Clarice Starling which only added to The Silence of the Lambs (1991) vibe to a TV series where Rachel Nichols [Conan the Barbarian] portrayed a FBI profiler hunting down serial killers, the actress laughs, “That’s so funny you said that!  It happened a lot when I […]

Luke Owen reviews the eighth episode of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series… Last week’s episode was a madcap and bloody affair with plenty of decapitations, mutilations, throat slitting and a fair amount of titillation. This week’s episode, La Conquista, slows the pace down somewhat to deliver some much needed exposition to explain the history of […]

Trevor Hogg takes a look at the four-part miniseries where saving the world from all hell breaking loose is just part of job for the scorching hot Apocalypse Al… All too often, private investigator Allison Carter is the only one who stands between the rest of us and the end of the world. In her […]

Filth, 2013. Directed by Jon S. Baird. Starring James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots, Brian McCardie, Emun Elliott, Gary Lewis, John Sessions, Shauna Macdonald, and Jim Broadbent. SYNOPSIS: An egotistical and conniving Scottish police officer who sees the world through a drug-induced haze attempts to secure a promotion by undermining his fellow contenders. Determined to win back his estrange wife and daughter, […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Thomas Robinson Harper about orchestrating the stunts featured in Captain America: The Winter Soldier…. “I have a long-standing relationship with Marvel,” states Thomas Robinson Harper who was the stunt coordinator for Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).   “I did the first Iron Man [2008] and Iron Man 2 [2010], as well […]