Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor John Knoll… “That was a good long time ago,” recalls veteran Industrial Light & Magic Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll who was part of the team which created the landmark alien pseudo pod for filmmaker James Cameron. “It was something that was very different, new, and […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Godfather: Part II, 1974. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Talia Shire, John Cazale, Michael V. Gazzo and Lee Strasberg. After watching The Godfather you simply must grab The […]

Carnage, 2011. Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. SYNOPSIS: After their sons are involved in a fight, two sets of parents meet to discuss the situation only for the evening to descend into chaos. Two married middle class couples having a constant argument for 80 minutes […]

With Disney’s $250m-budgeted space fantasy John Carter rapidly slipping down the charts – having banked a global haul of just $184m to date – the studio have released a statement via Deadline confirming that they expect to make a major loss on the Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation: “In light of the theatrical performance of John […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Godfather, 1972. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, John Cazale, Richard Conte, Talia Shire and Diane Keaton. The Godfather is the epic crime film that chronicles […]

High School Musical 2, 2007. Directed by Kenny Ortega. Starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel and Corbin Bleu. SYNOPSIS: It’s summer vacation for the Wildcats at East High School, but with the pressures of summer jobs weighing down on them will they be able to work it out? I’ll be the first […]

A Separation, 2011. Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi. SYNOPSIS: A married couple are faced with separation when they’re unable to agree on a difficult, life changing decision. Should they leave Iran to improve the life of their adolescent daughter, or stay in […]

Resistance, 2011. Directed by Amit Gupta. Starring Tom Wlaschiha, Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Iwan Rheon, Kimberley Nixon and Stanislav Ianevski. SYNOPSIS: During World War II, a group of women living in a rural Welsh village wake up one morning to discover that all of the men have mysteriously vanished. There are times when you wonder […]

The Devils, 1971. Written and Directed by Ken Russell. Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Max Adrian, Dudley Sutton, Murray Melvin and Gemma Jones. SYNOPSIS: A promiscuous 17th century priest is accused of the demonic possession of a sexually-repressed nun. “This film is based upon historical fact. The principal characters lived and the major events depicted […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Casablanca, 1942. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Casablanca wasn’t expected to be anything and was rushed into release in order to take […]