Piers McCarthy reports on the BFI London Film Festival press conference for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie… As conference moderator Chris Hewitt pointed out, Tim Burton is a beloved adopted Londoner. It seems only fair that after embracing the U.K’s capital as his home and bringing a heap of work to the British film industry that Burton […]

Here and There (Aquí y allá), 2012. Written and Directed by Antonio Mendez Esparza.Starring Pedro De los Santos, Teresa Ramírez Aguirre, Heidi Laura Solano Espinoza, Néstor Tepetate Medina, Noel Payno Vendíz, Carolina Prado Ángel, Nicolás Parra Quiroz and Lorena Guadalupe Pantaleón Vázquez. SYNOPSIS: A man travels back to his home in Mexico after working in […]

Part one of an updated two volume series titled Cinemas of the Other, A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey explores what it is like to produce movies in two countries where government censorship is driven by politics and religious beliefs.  To give readers a firsthand account, author Gönül Dönmez-Colin has included interview […]

Martin Deer on the latest issue of Batman… Spoiler Warning: Plot points will be discussed. Suspenseful. Gripping. Terrifying. Incredible. All of the words above could be used to describe the latest issue of Batman from Scott Snyder, plus many many more if my grey cells had the sharpness of Greg Capullo’s art and my vocabulary […]

Carlton Cuse has agreed to develop a new television series for NBC based on the graphic novel series The Sixth Gun. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cuse – the co-creator of Lost – and screenwriter Ryan Condal will executive produce the television series. The Sixth Gun is billed as a supernatural western and is described […]

Save Your Legs!, 2013. Directed by Boyd Hicklin.Starring Stephen Curry, Damon Gameau, Madeleine West, Pallavi Sharda,  David Lyons, Brenton Thwaites, Brendan Cowell, Darshan Jariwala, Eddie Baroo and Ryan O’Kane. SYNOPSIS: An Australian cricket team land the chance of a lifetime. They swap their D-grade park cricket for a tour of India, representing their country. Various […]

In his latest ‘State of the Genre’ column, Martin Deer ponders the future of The Amazing Spider-Man series… Last night I read some rather disconcerting news regarding the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, which is due to begin production next year for release in 2014. This news has me a little worried about the direction […]

Taken 2, 2012. Directed by Olivier Megaton.Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and Rade Šerbedžija. SYNOPSIS: Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by a gang seeking revenge against Mills for his actions during the rescue of his daughter. Taken 2 is the worst film of the year and every […]

Sister (French: L’enfant d’en haut), 2012. Directed by Ursula Meier.Starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Gillian Anderson and Léa Seydoux. SYNOPSIS: A sad tale about a young boy who financially supports his deadbeat sister. Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) is one streetwise kid. He runs a one-man thievery scheme at a Swiss resort in the Alps, selling stolen […]

Now that director Marc Webb has officially signed on to helm a sequel to this year’s web-spinning reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, it seems that Sony are pressing full-steam ahead with casting on the follow-up. According to Variety, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) will be getting some competition for Peter Parker’s (Andrew Garfield) affections in the form […]