The Twilight films are a divisive franchise. Some would like to repeatedly ram a crucifix shaped stake through the heart of the teen focused series, until it disintegrates into ashes. Others wish that the vampire fuelled angst would never end. Similarly (kind of), the Cannes film festival can split cinemagoers down the middle into two […]

The Road to the Avengers comes to an end as Luke Owen reviews Marvel’s Avengers Assemble… The Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers Assemble), 2012. Written and Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow […]

Acts of Godfrey, 2012. Written and Directed by Johnny Daukes. Starring Simon Callow, Iain Robertson, Harry Enfield, Doom Mackichan and Ian Burfield. SYNOPSIS: God (Simon Callow) presents us a story (in verse), mainly following Victor (Iain Robertson) at a business seminar but bringing in others and slowly revealing how every single one of them is […]

Simon Moore reviews the fifth episode of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… Some things are so smacked-out stone-cold crazy they simply have to be real. No, not The X Factor. I still insist that’s a mass hallucination we can’t wake up from. I refer instead to the Annual Preston Bed Races. This is simply one […]

Saw, 2003. Directed by James Wan. Produced by Darren McFarlane. Written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. Starring Leigh Whannell, Paul Moder, Katrina Mathers and Dean Francis. Having written a feature length horror script after meeting while studying at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, up-and-coming filmmakers James Wan and Leigh Whannell decided to produce […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, 1982. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton. E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial is another blockbuster from Spielberg and an 80s classic that tells the story of a lonely […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… In the business world, there are winners and losers. Sometimes the winners don’t deserve to win and sometimes the losers don’t deserve to lose. That was the story of this week’s Apprentice. Lord Sugar called our teams to a sports hall which is apparently a big […]

Luke Owen continues on the road to The Avengers, revisiting Captain America: The First Avenger… Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011. Directed by Joe Johnston. Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Sebastian Stan, Stanley Tucci, Neal McDonough and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: During World War II, Steve Rogers becomes a […]

The Divide, 2011. Directed by Xavier Gens. Starring Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Ashton Holmes, Milo Ventimiglia, Courtney B. Vance and Rosanna Arquette. SYNOPSIS: Following a nuclear attack, a group of survivors find themselves grouped together in the basement of their apartment building. After his Hollywood directorial debut Hitman, Xavier Gens’ follow up movie wasn’t exactly […]

The Cabin in the Woods, 2012. Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Bradley Whitford, Richard Jenkins, Jesse Williams, Anna Hutchison and Fran Kranz. SYNOPSIS: Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind […]