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 […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… Mother’s Day (or Mothering Sunday, according to my traditionalist Dad) is when we celebrate the unsung heroes of society. Mothers are the underappreciated glue holding together such fundamentals of everyday life as law, order and excessive cleanliness. There is no higher calling than motherhood. Political […]

Love on a Pillow (France: Le repos de guerrier), 1962. Directed by Roger Vadim. Starring Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory and Michel Serrault. SYNOPSIS: A woman rescues a suicidal man and then develops feelings for him. Love on a Pillow introduces us to the upper-class Parisian Geneviève Le Theil (Brigitte Bardot), a seemingly feisty […]

Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Despite unconfirmed reports that Warner Bros. has debuted new footage from The Dark Knight Rises at the Russian Movie Expo, it’s been another quiet week from the Batman camp, which may have something to do with the fact that director Christopher […]

The Raid (a.k.a The Raid: Redemption), 2011. Written and Directed by Gareth Evans. Starring Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Yayan Ruhian, Doni Alamsyah, Joe Taslim and Ray Sahetapy. SYNOPSIS: A SWAT team attempts to covertly raid a tenement run by a ruthless mobster (Ray Sahetapy) that serves as a barracks for his private army of the […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Saving Private Ryan, 1998. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, Barry Pepper, Tom Sizemore, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Jeremy Davies, Ted Danson, Dennis Farina and Paul Giamatti. Saving Private Ryan is the epic war […]

I Love You, Man, 2009. Directed by John Hamburg. Starring Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Rashida Jones, Greg Levine, Jaime Pressly, Jon Favreau, J.K. Simmons and Andy Samberg. SYNOPSIS: Peter Klaven (Rudd) is due to get married, and he’s come to the realisation that since being in a relationship with his other half, Zooey (Jones), he […]