Indie filmmaker Kevin Smith debuted his latest offering Red State to a mixed reaction at Sundance on Sunday evening, but the biggest news came from the subsequent Q&A session in which the Clerks director announced that he would be adopting the unusual approach of distributing the film himself via ‘SModcast Pictures’. Smith’s plan is to […]

Crying with Laughter, 2009. Written and Directed by Justin Molotnikov. Starring Stephen McCole, Malcolm Shields, Andrew Neil, Jo Hartley, Micaiah Dring, Niall Greig Fulton and Laura Keenan. SYNOPSIS: A rising stand-up comedian finds himself taking a bad trip down memory lane after a chance meeting with an old school friend. Imagine Martin Scorsese’s The King […]

The Last Remake of Beau Geste, 1977. Directed by Marty Feldman. Starring Marty Feldman, Michael York, Ann-Margaret, Peter Ustinov, Sinéad Cusack, James Earl Jones, Burt Kwouk, Trevor Howard, Avery Schreiber, Irene Handl, Henry Gibson, Terry-Thomas, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan, Hugh Griffith and Ed McMahon. SYNOPSIS: Digby Geste (Feldman) and his ‘identical’ twin brother Beau (York) […]

Jackboots on Whitehall, 2010. Written and Directed by Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry. Featuring the voice talents of Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Rosamund Pike, Timothy Spall, Dominic West, Tom Wilkinson, Richard O’Brien, Stephen Merchant, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Pam Ferris and Brian Conley. SYNOPSIS: When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seize London […]

Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the action from the movie superhero world, which was of course dominated last time out by the first-look images of Chris Evans in Captain America: The First Avenger and Andrew Garfield in the as yet Untitled Spider-Man Reboot. We thought that Warner Bros. wouldn’t want their DC characters […]

22 Bullets (French: L’immortel), 2010. Directed by Richard Berry. Starring Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs, Gabriella Wright, Fani Kolarova, Daniel Lundh and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. SYNOPSIS: After being left for dead with 22 bullets riddled in his body, a retired mobster somehow survives and sets out to gain revenge on the only man who would […]

Concluding our Peter Weir Blogathon, Trevor Hogg explores the making of the acclaimed filmmaker’s latest epic, The Way Back… In my quest to learn more about The Way Back, a World War II prison escape and survival epic, I spoke to two cinematic artists who have an unwavering sense of loyalty and respect for their […]

The Way Back, 2010. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Dragoş Bucur, Alexandru Potocean, Sebastian Urzendowsky and Gustaf Skarsgård. SYNOPSIS: A small group of multi-national prisoners escape from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and attempt an epic journey across five hostile countries. Leaving behind the high […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at his Academy Award-nominated twelfth feature… Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd, James D’Arcy, Edward Woodall, Chris Larkin and Max Pirkis. SYNOPSIS: An embattled British Naval Captain, Jack Aubrey, seeks […]

Black Swan, 2010. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder. SYNOPSIS: A ballet dancer finds herself competing with a rival for the lead in a production of Swan Lake and must embrace her dark side in order to win the role, but at what cost? One […]