The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Next (Swedish: Luftslottet som sprängdes), 2009. Directed by Daniel Alfredson.Starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace and Lena Endre. SYNOPSIS: Awaiting trial for attemped murder, Lisbeth Salander races to prove her innocence with the aid of Millennium reporter Mikael Blomkvist. As far as film trilogies go, the Millenium films have been […]

With Tron Legacy set for release this month, Trevor Hogg explores the evolution of Disney’s cult sci-fi franchise… “The first one had a lukewarm response critically and box-office wise because it was a great year,” recalled actor Bruce Boxleitner (Snakehead Terror) who played the title character in the original Tron (1982). “You had The Thing, […]

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, 2010. Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Tilda Swinton, Liam Neeson (voice) and Simon Pegg (voice). SYNOPSIS: Reunited with newly-anointed King Caspian (Ben Barnes), Lucy (Georgie Henley), Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and cousin Eustace Clarence Scrub (Will Poulter) embark […]

Tron: Legacy, 2010. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner and Olivia Wilde. SYNOPSIS: Sam (Garrett Hedlund), hasn’t seen or heard from his father Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) since his disappearance twenty years ago. Flynn’s old friend Alan (Bruce Boxleitner) contacts Sam after he receives a page from Flynn’s number at […]

Gary Collinson selects his Essential Movie Superheroes… Although the comic-book superhero was generally overlooked by the movie industry until Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie (1978) made you believe a man could fly, Hollywood failed to capitalise on this success over the next couple of decades and a stigma soon became attached to the genre. Save […]

DJ Haza with more “Frustrated Ramblings Of An Aspiring Filmmaker”… 3D seems to be the next big thing in cinematic leaps forward, but is it really all it’s cracked up to be? Bullets seemingly fly past your head, explosions leap off the screen and the film world surrounds you in three different dimensions. Or so […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the fifth of a five-part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. Shot over a course of eighty-six days, Youth Without Youth (2007) is a cinematic adaptation of the novella by Mircea Eliade. Struck by lightning, a timid seventy year old academic […]

No Impact Man, 2009. Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. Starring Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin. SYNOPSIS: Documentary following Colin Beavan, his wife Michelle and their two year old daughter Isabella as they attempt to live environmentally friendly for a year in New York. It only took about twenty minutes into ‘No Impact Man‘ […]

Following on from the sad news of comedy legend Leslie Nielsen’s passing comes word that Irvin Kershner has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 87. The American filmmaker – best known for directing the all-time classic Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, was born Philadelphia in 1923 and after serving […]