Anghus Houvouras reviews the third issue of Marvel NOW!’s Avengers… “The New Adam is born! And on Mars, the battle between the Avengers and the Garden comes to its dramatic conclusion!“ The third issue of the re-launched Avengers series is kind of a puzzler.  Writer Jonathan Hickman has wrapped up his interplanetary threat in record […]

Lay the Favorite, 2012. Directed by Stephen Frears.Starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, Joshua Jackson, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon, John Carrol Lynch, Corbin Bersen and Frank Grillo. SYNOPSIS: An exuberant ex-private dancer Beth (Rebecca Hall) arrives in Las Vegas in search of her ultimate dream to become a cocktail waitress. Fate leads her to […]

Movie 43, 2013 Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffen Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner and Jonthan van Tulleken.Starring Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Anna Faris, Kieran Culkin, Halle Berry, Gerard Butler, Sean William Scott, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Kate […]

False Trail (Jägarna 2), 2011. Directed by Kjell Sundvall.Starring Rolf Lassgård, Peter Stormare and Annika Nordin. SYNOPSIS: When a young girl goes missing, Erik Bäckström is called in to help with the investigation. Although a sequel to the 1996 Jägarna, False Trail (known in Sweden as Jägarna 2) never feels like the second part of a movie series. Instead, […]

Holy Motors, 2012. Written and Directed by Leos Carax.Starring Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau and Michel Piccoli. SYNOPSIS: A day in the life of Monsieur Oscar (Lavant), a man travelling in his limousine to a string of ‘appointments’ where, in each, he takes on a new identity and agenda. One […]

The Vicious Brothers’ horror sequel Grave Encounters 2 arrives on DVD here in the UK on Monday, February 4th and to celebrate the release we have three copies of the film to give away to our readers courtesy of the lovely folks at Metrodome Distribution. Read on for a synopsis and details of how to […]

To Walk with Lions, 1999. Directed by Carl Schultz.Starring John Michie, Richard Harris, Kerry Fox, Ian Bannen, Hugh Quarshie, Honor Blackman and Geraldine Chaplin. SYNOPSIS: An arrogant young man (Michie) travelling through Africa crosses paths with George Adamson (Harris), a world-famous lion tamer. Adamson employs Tony and teaches him about the lions and land. Oscar-winning […]

Kirsty Capes reviews the fourth episode of Downton Abbey season 3… The Crawley girls aren’t having a good time of it at the moment. This episode Mary and Matthew are still worrying about the fact they haven’t conceived yet, and Matthew starts to wonder if it’s down to him. When Sybil goes into labour and […]

Recently the Internet was abuzz when Roman Coppola mentioned he had planned to do a comic book movie with his cousin Nicolas Cage (The Rock) portraying Doctor Strange.  I brought up the subject while talking to the writer-director about his latest movie A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012). “Nowadays it’s over […]

Lincoln, 2012 Directed by Steven Spielberg.Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hawkes, Bruce McGill and Tim Blake Nelson. SYNOPSIS: As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many […]