Everything Must Go, 2010. Directed by Dan Rush. Starring Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Michael Peña, Laura Dern, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Rosalie Michaels, Glenn Howerton and Stephen Root. SYNOPSIS: After losing his job and his wife, an alcoholic holds a yard sale in an attempt to start over and meets a new neighbour who may be […]

The House on the Edge of the Park (Italian: La casa sperduta nel parco), 1980. Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring David Hess, Annie Belle, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Marie Claude Joseph, Gabriele Di Giulio, Christian Borromeo, Brigitte Petronio and Lorraine De Selle. SYNOPSIS: Two lowlifes invite themselves to an upscale house party; ridiculed by their snobbish […]

The Woman, 2011. Directed by Lucky Mckee. Starring Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Zach Rand, Shyla Molhusen. SYNOPSIS: A lawyer and family man captures a feral woman and chains her up in his cellar hoping to tame and civilize her, but the task proves more difficult than he anticipated. The Woman […]

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Straw Dogs, Santosh Sandhu explores the troubled history of Sam Peckinpah’s notorious thriller here in the UK… Many of the decisions the BBFC had made up to the early 1970s revolved around politics, religion and sex. Whilst then censor John Trevelyan had made the BBFC more accepting of […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning cinematographer John Seale about his collaborations with filmmaker Peter Weir… While directing episodes for Luke’s Kingdom (ABC, 1976), a miniseries chronicling the colonial hardships in the Australian Outback, filmmaker Peter Weir worked with a camera operator whom he decided to recruit for his next feature film. The creative partnership […]

Daniel Craig’s third outing as 007, rumoured to be named “Skyfall”, could be considerably thinner in the action department, according to The Express. The paper claims that director Sam Mendes wants to focus his adventure on “characterful performances” instead of the franchise’s usual action set pieces. Most strikingly of all the director, with his background […]

In the first of a two-part feature, Gary Collinson looks at 23 actors who could have found themselves uttering the iconic line, “The name’s Bond. James Bond…” Despite the fact that Daniel Craig is only just gearing up for the production of his third outing as 007 in Sam Mendes’ oft-delayed Bond 23 (a.k.a. Skyfall), […]

Hammett, 1982. Directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear and Elisha Cook, Jr. SYNOPSIS: When and old detective friend shows up at his door, pulp fiction writer Dashiell Hammett gets involved in a world of gangsters and double-crossers that he thought he had left behind. Hammett is a curiosity. […]

Mother’s Day, 2010. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Starring Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Briana Evigan, Patrick Flueger, Warren Kole, Matt O’Leary, Deborah Ann Woll, Shawn Ashmore, Frank Grillo, Lisa Marcos, Lyriq Bent, Tony Nappo, Kandyse McClure and Jessie Rusu. SYNOPSIS: Three brothers return to their childhood home to take refuge following a botched bank […]

Trespass, 2011. Directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Cam Gigandet, Ben Mendelsohn, Liana Liberato and Jordana Spiro. SYNOPSIS: A wealthy couple are held hostage in their home by a group of cold-blooded criminals. Academy Award-winner Nicolas Cage. Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman. Two of my favourite stars together in the same film; when […]