D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Departed, 2006. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson and Alec Baldwin. The Departed is a crime thriller based on the Hong Kong film […]

Joss Whedon has pretty much built his career around strong female characters (see Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse et al) and now – as he prepares to turn his attention to The Avengers’ Black Widow – the director has given USA Today (via Vulture) a detailed account of how he thinks a showdown between […]

Wrath of the Titans, 2012. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Starring Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Édgar Ramírez, Rosamund Pike, Toby Kebbell, Bill Nighy and Danny Huston. SYNOPSIS: Perseus (Sam Worthington) must travel into the underworld to save his father Zeus (Liam Neeson) from the combined threat of Ares (Édgar Ramírez) and Hades (Ralph Fiennes). […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977. Directed by George Lucas. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse and James Earl Jones. Star Wars: Episode […]

Former Simpsons showrunner Mike Scully, now co-developer, producer and writer for Napoleon Dynamite, talks to Flickering Myth’s Simon Moore about the freedom of animation, small-town traditions and what fans can look forward to in future episodes… Simon Moore: Forgive the shamelessly direct opening question, but where did the idea to make an animated TV sitcom […]

Oliver Davis reviews the second episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… “That’s not the way to get a-head in life.” -Austin Powers I’m unsure what it was about Episode 1, but it left me pretty underwhelmed. Here was I, expecting to be screwed over and played with by the giant, tormenting cat HBO embodies, […]

Sometimes They Come Back, 1991. Directed by Tom McLoughlin. Starring Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Matt Nolan, Chad Nyerges, Nicholas Sadler, William Sanderson and Robert Rusler. SYNOPSIS: A teacher with a troubled past returns to his hometown with his family to start a new beginning. However, his past soon comes back to haunt him as he […]

Swinging with the Finkels, 2011. Directed by Jonathan Newman. Starring Martin Freeman, Mandy Moore, Melissa George,Jerry Stiller, Jonathan Silverman and Angus Deayton. SYNOPSIS: A London couple take up swinging in an effort to save their failing marriage. It is a big year for Martin Freeman. This could well be the defining year of his cinematic […]

The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat, 2012. Directed by Richard Symons. SYNOPSIS: Revealing interviews and archive footage are used to tell the story of Yasser Arafat, the controversial Palestinian leader. This is the first of twelve documentaries intending to show the lives of some of the world’s most influential leaders. Considering one of my last […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Get Carter, 1971. Directed by Mike Hodges. Starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, and Britt Ekland. Get Carter is a classic British gangster film that sees Jack Carter (Caine) arrive in Northern England with questions about the recent […]