Spanish Fly, 1976. Directed by Bob Kellett.Starring Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska, Frank Thornton and Sue Lloyd. SYNOPSIS: On the Mediterranean island of Minorca, expat Sir Percy de Courcy buys 100,000 gallons of local wine, hoping to sell it at a vast profit. Unfortunately, the wine tastes foul, and when he asks his chauffeur […]

Ultraviolet, 1998. Created by Joe Ahearne.Starring Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba and Philip Quast. SYNOPSIS: A police detective is thrown into the world of vampires when hunting for his missing partner. The whole world is in a state of despair, and the people in it are under threat from distinctly un-sexy vampires in Ultraviolet. […]

On the Fiddle (a.k.a. Operation Snafu), 1961. Directed by Cyril Frankel.Starring Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway and Eric Barker.  SYNOPSIS: Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative […]

Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #5… Superman: The Movie, 1978. Directed by Richard Donner.Starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York […]

Iron Man: Rise of Technovore, 2013. Directed by Hiroshi Hamazaki.Featuring the voice talents of Matthew Mercer, Norman Reedus, Eric Bauza, Kate Higgins, James Mathis III, Clare Grant, Kari Wahlgren, JB Blanc, Troy Baker, John Eric Bentley and Tara Platt. SYNOPSIS: Iron Man is framed by a technological terrorist, and sets out to stop him and […]

Promised Land, 2012. Directed by Gus Van Sant.Starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt, Scoot McNairy, Titus Welliver, Terry Kinney and Halbrook. SYNOPSIS:A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources. Promised Land is a classic […]

Nor’easter, 2012. Written and Directed by Andrew Brotzman.Starring David Call, Richard Bekins, Liam Aiken, Haviland Morris, Rachel Brosnahan, Danny Burstein, Geary Smith and Emory Cohen. SYNOPSIS: A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest’s commitment to church doctrine […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Hayley Dixon writes for The Telegraph… “Greg Dyke said it is ‘ridiculous’ that schools are lagging behind in a world dominated by film and television. The BFI is launching a £26 million film education programme which aims to reach every child in schools across Britain in four years. […]

Paul Risker chats with Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, writer-director of Thursday Till Sunday… Recently I was privileged to have an opportunity to speak with Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor Castillo, and gain an insight into the mind of the writer-director, who made her feature debut with Thursday Till Sunday. She spoke to us about how she finds […]

A Late Quartet, 2012. Directed by Yaron Zilberman.Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Imogen Poots, and Mark Ivanir. SYNOPSIS: Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust. The beauty of A Late Quartet is in its ability to allow the audience […]