Foxy Brown, 1974. Directed by Jack Hill.Starring Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe and Sid Haig. SYNOPSIS: A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. “She’s brown sugar and spice but if you don’t […]

Portlandia: Seasons One and TwoCreated by and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein.SYNOPSIS:A character-based sketch show taking place in “Portlandia”, a dreamy and absurd hipster rendering of Portland, Oregon where 90’s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage. Going in to Portlandia, I knew nothing about this series. Never heard of it, […]

Before Midnight, 2013.Directed by Richard Linklater.Starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed and Athina Rachel Tsangari.SYNOPSIS: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.With Before Midnight, director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy […]

Anthony Stokes has some issues with the ending to Man of Steel.…It seems like nobody can agree these days and depending who you ask, Man of Steel is either the best movie of the summer or the biggest disappointment. There’s been some major criticism towards the ending, although some of it is just fanboys crying […]

Simon Columb attends BFI Southbank’s Rita Hayworth retrospective…In The Shawshank Redemption (titled Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in Stephen King’s Different Seasons) there is a moment whereby we see a scene from Gilda. Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) attempts to ask Red (Morgan Freeman) to bring him “Rita Hayworth” but before he can ask, Red […]

Director Roland Emmerich (White House Down) has spent a lot of time talking up the sequels to the sci-fi box office smash Independence Day over the past few months, and now that 20th Century Fox has set a July 3rd 2015 release date for the first of the two follow ups – tentatively titled ID […]

Last month William Fichtner (The Dark Knight, Drive Angry) joined the cast of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in “a lead role with iconic stature in the Turtles’ mythology,” leading many to speculate that director Jonathan Leibesman (Wrath of the Titans) and producer Michael Bay (Transformers 4) had found their Shredder for the live-action reboot. Well, […]

World War Z, 2013.Directed by Marc Forster.Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, Fana Mokoena, James Badge Dale, David Morse, Matthew Fox, Abigail Hargrove, Sterling Jerins, and Fabrizio Zacharee Guidoas.SYNOPSIS:United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening […]

Black Rock, 2012.Directed by Katie Aselton.Starring Katie Aselton, Lake Bell, Kate Bosworth, Will Bouvier, Jay Paulson, Anslem Richardson and Carl K. Aselton.SYNOPSIS:Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight […]

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