The Violent Zone, 2002. Directed by Victor Nunez. Starring Timothy Olyphant, Josh Brolin, Sarah Winter, William Forsythe and Josh Lucas. SYNOPSIS: A sheriff forms an unlikely alliance with an ex-con to bring down a local gang. Before Josh Brolin made No Country for Old Men, American Gangster, and W. and before Timothy Olyphant made Die […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Revolutionary Road, 2008. Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Richard Easton and Kathy Bates. Revolutionary Road is based upon Richard Yates’ 1961 novel of the same name and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Germain Lussier writes for /Film about the replacement of David Arnold on the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall: “To be honest, I couldn’t pick one of Arnold’s Bond scores from the other (I’m more of fan of his Roland Emmerich collaborations) and, usually, most of the Bond music news […]

Liam Trimon the critical reception for New Year’s Eve… What did you get up to on New Year’s Eve? Fireworks are standard fare on the 31st of December and I bet you at least heard a few, even if you were trying to avoid the garish explosions of tinsel in the sky. Booze is another […]

Beautiful Lies, 2010. Directed by Pierre Salvadori. Starring Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye and Sami Bouajila. SYNOPSIS: Audrey Tautou stars in this witty French comedy about love and lies. Tautou’s character Émilie Dandrieux receives a passionate love letter from a secret admirer who is also her fellow co-worker at her hair salon, she then copies the […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Due to last week’s Superhero Showdown, we’ve got a couple of weeks of catching up to do here but truth be told, it was a quiet end to 2011, especially after all of the excitement over the second trailer for […]

Margin Call, 2011. Directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci. SYNOPSIS: During the first twenty-four hours of the worldwide financial crisis, key members of one large investment bank try to stop their world from imploding. Margin Call, a film based on what happens at one international […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Carlito’s Way, 1993. Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller. Brian De Palma’s crime film Carlito’s Way is based upon two novels, one of the same name and it’s sequel After Hours, […]

The Legend of Bruce Lee, 2008. Starring Kwok-Kwan Chan, Michelle Lang, Ted E. Duran, Hazen MacIntyre, Ray Park, Mark Dacascos and Gary Daniels. SYNOPSIS: A biography of the legendary martial arts icon Bruce Lee, following him from his childhood in Hong Kong through to movie stardom and his untimely death at the age of 32. […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… True Romance, 1993. Directed by Tony Scott. Starring Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Val Kilmer, Dennis Hopper, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken, Gary Oldman and Samuel L. Jackson. True Romance centres around the relationship between comic store worker and film buff […]