A frustrated Jamie Baker on movie trailers and their habit of giving away just that little too much… Trailers are one of the most important advertising techniques used in the promotion of films. With the increased accessibility to view them, not only through television and cinema, but also countless other new media devices, we are […]

Carlos, 2010. Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstätten, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach, Susanne Wuest, Anna Thalbach and Julia Hummer. SYNOPSIS: A biopic of the Venezuelan revolutionary and international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Before Osama bin Laden became the world’s most wanted fugitive in the wake of the 9/11 terror […]

James Ellis on the demise of the spoof… I wanted to start this article all contrived describing to all the uninformed masses what a spoof was. Literally what the spoof dictionary definition was. I was even going to add all the silly abbreviations one finds in a dictionary, make the start of the article look […]

With his latest film Fair Game released later this year, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Doug Liman in the first of a two part feature… Being the son of a legendary attorney, who represented some of America’s largest corporations such as Warner Bros and served as the U.S. Senate’s lead counsel in the […]

The Social Network, 2010. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Brenda Song, Rooney Mara, Armie Hammer and Max Minghella. SYNOPSIS: A drama about the creation of social networking website Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. It’s 3am or a similarly ridiculous hour. The sane and the content are asleep in […]

West is West, 2010. Directed by Andy DeEmmony. Starring Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh, Emil Marwa and Jimi Mistry. SYNOPSIS: The dysfunctional Khan family continues to struggle for survival in the North of England during the 1970s. Under heavy assault from his father’s tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, 15-year-old Sajid is packed […]

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden), 2009. Directed by Daniel Alfredson. Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. SYNOPSIS: When hacker Lisbeth Sanders (Noomi Rapace) goes on the run after being accused of three murders, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) sets out to track her down and uncover the truth. […]

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, 2009. Directed by Kevin Hamedani. Starring Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, Russell Hodgkinson, Cooper Hopkins, Bill Johns, James Mesher and Cornelia Moore. SYNOPSIS: The idyllic island town of Port Gamble comes under attack by a horde of flesh-eating zombies, leaving a rag-tag band of rebel stereotypes to fight for their survival. […]

Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth will be breathing a sigh of relief this weekend with the news that the financially beleaguered MGM have finally reached a deal with New Line and Warner Bros. to cover the estimated $500m needed to bring The Hobbit to the big-screen, as reported by TheWrap last night. The […]

Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Sylvester Stallone films… From the moment he brought us Rocky, through to giving us Rambo, until his most recent gift, The Expendables, Sly Stallone has been a hero to many a red blooded male. Be it the bygone days of childhood, sneaking Stallone viewings from the video collection of […]