R.I.P.D., 2013. Directed by Robert Schwentke.Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon, Stephanie Szostak, James Hong, and Marisa Miller. SYNOPSIS: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Will Smith plays a young, idealistic […]

Anghus Houvouras asks whether anyone cares about The Fifth Estate…. There was a day and age where breaches of trust perpetrated by Governments believing themselves to be above the law would have felt more like fiction than fact.  The kind of stuff you’d find in a Tom Clancy novel or the plot to the latest […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Christopher Williams, for The Telegraph, covers Kevin Spacey’s comments at The Edinburgh International Television Festival… “The actor said giving viewers more choice and control over how they consume films would mean there would be less incentive to unlawfully download them for free. … He said: ‘Why is Game […]

Clear History, 2013. Directed by Greg Mottola.Starring Larry David, Bill Hader, Philip Baker Hall, Jon Hamm, Kate Hudson, Michael Keaton, Danny McBride, Eva Mendes, Amy Ryan, J.B. Smoove and Amy Landecker.  SYNOPSIS: A disgraced former marketing executive plots revenge against his former boss, who made billions from the electric car company they started. For fans […]

Haunter, 2013.Directed by Vincenzo Natali.Starring Abigail Breslin, Sarah Manninen, David Hewlett, Stephen McHattie, Michelle Nolden, and Peter Outerbridge. SYNOPSIS: The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate. From the writer and director of Splice comes Haunter, […]

V/H/S/2, 2013. Directed by Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto and Adam Wingard.Starring Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, L.C. Holt, Simon Barrett, Mindy Robinson, Adam Wingard, Hannah Hughes, John T. Woods, Brian Udovich, Casey Adams, Jay Saunders and Bette Cassatt. SYNOPSIS: Searching for a missing student, two private investigators […]

Hatchet III, 2013. Directed by BJ McDonnell.Starring Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Derek Mears, Cody Blue Snider, and Rileah Vanderbilt. SYNOPSIS:  A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting […]

Dementamania, 2013. Directed by Kit Ryan.Starring Kal Penn, Vincent Regan, Geoff Bell, John Thomson, Holly Weston, and Robert van Twillert.  SYNOPSIS: A frustrated office worker finds himself caught between the realms of his deranged imagination and the mundane reality of his everyday existence. Given its strange title and slightly off-kilter premise (it was promised as […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Batman vs. Superman, Man of Steel, Arrow, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agent Carter, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The […]

Lovelace, 2013. Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.Starring Amanda Seyfried, James Franco, Peter Sarsgaard, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick, Juno Temple, Chris Noth, Bobby Cannavale, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, Chloe Sevigny, Debi Mazar, Eric Roberts, and Ron Pritchard.  SYNOPSIS:The story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest […]