Kandahar Break: Fortress of War, 2009. Directed by David Whitney. Starring Shaun Dooley, Dean Andrews, Rasheed Naz and Tatmain Ul Qulb. SYNOPSIS: A British mine clearance engineer is pursued across the desert after falling foul of a corrupt police chief in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The feature debut of British writer-director David Whitney, Kandahar Break: Fortress of […]

The Strange Vice Of Mrs. Wardh, 1971. Directed by Sergio Martino. Starring George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Conchita Airoldi, Manuel Gil and Carlo Alighiero. SYNOPSIS: A restless woman becomes embroiled in a horrifying mystery that threatens to drive her to the brink of madness… or worse. Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh (1971) is a Giallo […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of The Lord of the Rings had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings were surely satisfied with Peter Jackson’s Award-winning trilogy, which remained pretty much faithful to the sacred […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the first of a five part feature… “My childhood was bad and it was good. It was chaotic; it was noisy; it was real loud. I have a big family, with three younger sisters,” stated American filmmaker Steven Spielberg whose reserved father, Arnold, […]

Centurion, 2010. Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Noel Clarke, David Morrissey and Imogen Poots. SYNOPSIS: When the legendary Ninth Legion of the Roman army are decimated by a tribe of Pictish warriors, a small band of survivors must fight for survival deep behind enemy lines. The fourth feature from […]

Gary Collinson traces the many screen incarnations of The Dark Knight in the third of a three-part feature… read parts one and two. While the Batman franchise was enjoying a prolonged spell of creativity and popularity throughout the 80s and 90s, the release of the much-maligned Batman & Robin (1997) looked to have steered the […]

Diary of a Wimpy Kid, 2010. Directed by Thor Freudenthal. Starring Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn and Chloë Grace Moretz. SYNOPSIS: Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) is about to start middle school. He doesn’t know what to expect or more importantly, how he’s going to survive it. Thankfully his mum has bought him […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of three time Academy Award-winning sound designer and film editor Walter Murch in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. On the matter of returning to the director’s chair, American filmmaker Walter Murch remarked, “I’ve thought about it and I tried for a […]

Nazi Dawn, a.k.a. Black Ops, a.k.a. Deadwater, 2008. Directed by Roel Reiné. Starring Lance Henriksen, Gary Stretch, James Russo and Katherine Randolph. SYNOPSIS: A dark and ghostly wartime secret is about to be uncovered when a battle between good and evil breaks out aboard a WWII-era battleship. Nazis are without doubt the greatest baddies to […]