It’s fairly common knowledge that filmmaker James Cameron spent many a year attached to a movie adaptation of Marvel’s Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but now acclaimed comic book writer Chris Claremont has revealed how close Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment were to developing an X-Men feature film, which would have been produced by Cameron and directed by his […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Dark Knight, 2008. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman. The Dark Knight is the second installment in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and sees the […]

American Beauty, 1999. Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper and Allison Janney. SYNOPSIS: A middle aged man finds himself questioning what his life has become and promptly embarks on a mid-life crisis. The world, and particularly America, is now a very different place than […]

The Thing, 2011. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen. SYNOPSIS: A group of scientists at a remote Antarctic research station stumble upon a frozen alien spacecraft and face a fight for survival after taking its inhabitant back to their base camp. […]

Kill Keith, 2011. Directed by Andy Thompson. Starring Keith Chegwin, Marc Pickering, Susannah Fielding and Tony Blackburn. SYNOPSIS: Candidates to replace the lead anchor of breakfast show Up the Crack of Dawn start dying mysterious deaths. Who could possibly be behind them? There’s a serial killer on the loose, killing candidates to host a breakfast […]

The Doom Generation, 1995. Directed by Gregg Araki. Starring James Duval, Rose McGowan and Johnathon Schaech. SYNOPSIS: Two troubled teens and an adolescent drifter embark on a sex and violence-fuelled journey across America. When future historians look back to cinema to see what people of the past were like, I really hope they don’t stumble […]

Justice (a.k.a. Seeking Justice), 2011. Directed by Roger Donaldson. Staring Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Jennifer Carpenter, Guy Pearce, IronE Singleton and Harold Perrineau. SYNOPSIS: When his wife is assaulted, a husband seeks help from a vigilante group in order to get revenge. Nicolas Cage has a tendency to star in a lot of very underwhelming […]

50/50, 2011. Directed by Jonathan Levine. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard and Anjelica Huston. SYNOPSIS: A twenty-something guy struggles to beat cancer with the help of his best friend. Inspired by the true story of writer Will Reiser’s own experience with cancer, 50/50 sees best friends Adam (JGL) and Kyle […]

Don’t Go in the House, 1980. Directed by Joseph Ellison. Starring Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet and Bill Ricci. SYNOPSIS: Donny is tormented by his past, in particular the way his mother would punish him. When she finally bites the proverbial biscuit, Donny starts to hear voices… Don’t Go in the House was originally released hassle […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Children of Men, 2006. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Pam Ferris and Danny Huston. Children of Men is set in a futuristic world not too far from our own. […]