Liam Trim discusses Flaubert’s cinematic Madame Bovary… Gustave Flaubert’s mid nineteenth century novel Madame Bovary might not appear all that remarkable if you read it today. At the time its focus on the limitations of marriage, along with its abundance of controversial ingredients like frequent and shameless adultery and suicide, made it a scandalous work […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the third of a six-part feature… read parts one and two. “We both have a tradition that, when we have a film opening for which there are high expectations, we get out of town,” stated filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who vacationed with colleague George Lucas […]

Ghosted, 2011. Directed by Craig Viveiros. Starring John Lynch, David Schofield, Martin Compston, Craig Parkinson and Art Malik. SYNOPSIS: A model prisoner risk his own life and sanity to help a newcomer who has fallen under the spell of a psychotic convict. Do you think you could hack it behind bars? If you’re a Daily […]

World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2, 2011. Directed by Michael Bartlett and Kevin Gates. Starring Philip Brodie, Alix Wilton Regan, Rob Oldfield and Vicky Araico. SYNOPSIS: Britain has been inexplicably overrun by zombies and a surviving platoon of TA soldiers fight their way through hordes of the undead and groups of hostile survivors […]

Ryan Dunn, one of the stars of the MTV franchise Jackass, was killed earlier today in a car crash in West Goshen, Pennsylvania, aged just 34. According to TMZ, Dunn had posted images of himself out drinking with friends on Sunday night and died at approximately 3am when the car he was travelling in hit […]

Savage Streets, 1984. Directed by Danny Steinmann. Starring Linda Blair, John Vernon and Sal Landi. SYNOPSIS: Brenda (played by the pixie faced Linda Blair) and Heather (80’s scream queen Linnea Quigley) are two very close sisters. Brenda keeps her young deaf sister under her watchful eye at all times, until one fateful day when a […]

It’s taken pretty much for granted in modern cinema that, for a Chinese film role, you cast a Chinese actor. Just as leading men no longer black up in boot polish to play Othello, actresses long ago stopped painting their eyes slanted to look Chinese. It’s daft, it’s unconvincing, and to the actors turned away […]

Green Lantern, 2011. Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett, Tim Robbins, Temuera Morrison, Taiki Waititi, Jon Tenney, Jay O. Sanders, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Clarke Duncan and Peter Sarsgaard. SYNOPSIS: Cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) is granted cosmic super-powers to help defeat an intergalactic foe. You know […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Warner Bros. and Marvel are unlikely to have much of a showing at the San Diego Comic-Con this year (if at all), but both did make an appearance at the Licensing International Expo this past week. Highlights included the unveiling […]

The Tree of Life, 2011. Written and Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. SYNOPSIS: The film follows the life journey of the eldest son of a Midwestern family through the innocence of childhood in the 1950s to his disillusioned adult years in the modern world, seeking answers to the […]