The Conspirator, 2010. Directed by Robert Redford. Starring James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long and Colm Meaney. SYNOPSIS: The lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth […]

Henry of Navarre a.k.a. Henri 4, 2010. Directed by Jo Baier. Starring Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król and Andreas Schmidt. SYNOPSIS: After the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, the Protestant Henry of Navarre must use all of his guile both to stay alive and maneuver for the throne of France. July the 4th is of course a […]

The Violent Kind, 2010. Directed by Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores. Starring Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis and Tiffany Shepis. SYNOPSIS: One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely […]

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 2011. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Malkovich, Alan Tudyk, Frances McDormand, Peter Cullen, Leonard Nimoy and Hugo Weaving. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious event from Earth’s past erupts into the present day, threatening to unleash […]

Krabat and the Legend of the Satanic Mill, 2008. Directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. Starring David Kross, Christian Redl and Daniel Brühl. SYNOPSIS: A boy goes to work at a mysterious mill and learns the black arts from a sorcerer. After a ‘30 years war’, most of Europe is devastated and the people are suffering from […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With the recent box office disappointment of Green Lantern (which currently stands on a world-wide gross of just $125m), TheWrap posted an article this past week looking at reasons why 2011’s ‘superhero summer’ has been ‘a bust’. Now, I’m not […]

Liam Trim with ten reasons to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon… The latest Transformers movie has been critically panned from virtually every corner. Danny Leigh off that BBC show with Claudia Winkleface is even calling for strike action to boycott the movie in The Guardian and thus send a message to studio execs. But […]

The Silent House, 2010. Directed by Gustavo Hernández. Starring Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi, María Salazar and Gustavo Alonso. SYNOPSIS: A young woman and her father begin work on renovating a sleepy country cottage, which hides a dark secret. Whatever happened to traditional ghost stories set in creepy old houses? Modern horror has become a competition […]

Liam Trim discusses David Cronenberg’s upcoming non-fiction adaptation, A Dangerous Method… As cinemagoers and telly watchers we are used to accomplished adaptations of fictions born on the page. Whether it’s the BBC’s latest Jane Austen costume drama or blockbusters like the Harry Potter series, we consume creations transformed from the page to the screen all […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the fourth of a six part feature… read parts one, two and three. For over a decade filmmaker George Lucas had been developing a project which was a gender reversal of the Biblical story about Moses being hidden as a baby in the bulrushes. […]