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, 2012Directed 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 inside his own […]

Matt Smith reviews the pilot episode of the new US TV drama The Following… All I’ve seen of Kevin Bacon recently are those fantastic, but let’s face it, nonsensical, adverts for a mobile (pronounced ‘mobbl’) phone. As much as I love the ads (though doesn’t Footloose Kevin Bacon look old!?), it was time for something […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Kirsty Puchko writes for CinemaBlend.com about eBay’s decision to stop selling Django Unchained dolls:“From autographed posters to collectible figures and vintage promo tees, eBay is typically a terrific venue for seeking out hard to find movie memorabilia. So, when The Weinstein Company pushed toymaker NECA to pull their […]

Amour, 2012.Written and Directed by Michael Haneke.Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.SYNOPSIS:An elderly couple’s bond of love is severely tested after one of them suffers a stroke.Warning – spoilers ahead… Georges and Anne are a married couple in their eighties, still happy and in love after, we assume, several decades of marriage; one […]

The Last Stand, 2013. Directed by Kim Ji-woon.Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Rodrigo Santoro, Luis Guzmán, Eduardo Noriega, Peter Stormare, Jaimie Alexander, Zach Gilford and Génesis Rodríguez. SYNOPSIS:  The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is […]

Zero Dark Thirty, 2012. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.Starring Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kinney, Mark Duplass, Stephen Dillane, Frank Grillo, Edgar Ramirez, Harold Perrineau, Jennifer Ehle, James Gandolfini, Scott Adkins and John Barrowman. SYNOPSIS: The hunt for Osama Bin Laden in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist […]

Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers 2, Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, S.H.I.EL.D., Man of Steel, Batman, Justice League, Kick-Ass 2, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Arrow, DC […]

And so, the wait is over… after reports this past week that Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams would be taking a trip to a galaxy far, far away, Disney and Lucasfilm have officially confirmed that the Abrams is set to helm Star Wars: Episode VII, the first chapter of Disney’s […]

Simon Columb reports on the BFI’s Projections: A Psychoanalysis of Polanski’s ‘Apartment’ Trilogy talk… Roman Polanski remains a fascinating filmmaker to this day. Alongside Andrej Wajda and Jerzy Skolimowski, Polanski came to the fore in the late 1950s in Poland. The BFI in London are screening all of Polanski’s films during January and February and […]