The Losers, 2010. Directed by Sylvain White. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada and Jason Patric. SYNOPSIS: In the Bolivian jungle, a group of Special Ops soldiers plan an air strike on a village targeted by the US military. Finding a large amount of children in the […]

Luke Owen examines the classic horror franchise Friday the 13th in the first of a two-part feature… Friday The 13th came at the right time in American cinema. The box office success of Halloween was to kick start a slasher horror revolution that consumed the 1980s and Friday the 13th was one of the first […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the second of a five part feature… read part one here. “I was frankly in a dilemma after my work on From the Apennines to the Andes [1976] ended,” stated Japanese anime artist Hayao Miyazaki who found himself at a career crossroad. “I […]

Hollywood legend Dennis Hopper has died at his home in California earlier today from complications of prostate cancer, aged 74. Hopper – who had battled the illness for almost a year and had recently received a long-overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – enjoyed a career that spanned over half a century. He […]

Luke Owen with his thoughts on the low budget horror debut… Some people have accused me in the past of having double standards. I have criticised films such as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for having a terrible story structure, dreadful dialogue and awful acting. Yet I can sit and watch Happy Birthday to Me, […]

Former child star Gary Coleman has passed away aged 42. The actor – best known as pint-sized Arnold Jackson in the classic TV comedy series Diff’rent Strokes (1978 – 1986) – suffered a brain haemorrhage after fall at his home on Wednesday and died earlier today after his life support machine was turned off. After […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the first of a five part feature… “I was an overly self-conscious boy and I had a hard time holding my own in fights with others,” recalled renowned Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, “but my classmates eventually accepted me because I was good at […]

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans, 2009. Directed by Werner Herzog. Starring Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer. SYNOPSIS: After suffering a spinal injury in the line of work, newly-promoted Lieutenant Terence McDonagh (Nicholas Cage) spirals into drug abuse and corruption. There’s a piece of modern movie-industry jargon that I cringe whenever […]