Trevor Hogg profiles the career of three time Academy Award-winning sound designer and film editor Walter Murch in the first of a five part feature… Enthralled with the world of sound, an eleven year old boy convinced his parents to buy a tape recorder. “I would hold the microphone out the window, recording sounds of […]

Although the classic British horror studio Hammer Films is making a comeback of sorts (they currently have Let The Right One In remake Let Me In and erotic thriller The Resident both in post-production), it seems that the future of Bray Film Studios – Hammer’s home between 1951-1966 – is unfortunately looking rather bleak. The […]

The Rebound, 2009. Directed by Bart Freundlich. Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Justin Bartha. SYNOPSIS: A single mum of two moves to the city to start a new life where she falls for a guy who is not only much younger than her, but also the babysitter. Having not heard much about this film but feeling […]

DJ Haza reflects on six years of Lost with more ‘Frustrated Ramblings Of An Aspiring Filmmaker”… If, like me, you had been eagerly anticipating the long awaited final episode of Lost and all the answers that were destined to accompany it then you too would have looked like a school kid on Christmas morning. We […]

Toy Story 3, 2010. Directed by Lee Unkrich. Featuring the voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Michael Keaton, Joan Cusack and Ned Beatty. SYNOPSIS: Andy has grown up and is heading off to college, and we join his toys as they voice concerns about their future. Believing themselves destined for the dumpster, they hitch a […]

With his latest offering Inception hitting cinemas this week, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan in the third of a three part feature… read parts one and two. Finding the theme for his second film involving The Caped Crusader was not difficult for British filmmaker Christopher Nolan. “At the end of […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Michael Douglas films… The son of screen legend Kirk Douglas and actress Diana Hill, actor and producer Michael Douglas shot to fame alongside Karl Malden in the TV police drama The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1976) and received his first Academy Award as producer of Miloš Forman’s classic 1975 […]

With his latest offering Inception hitting cinemas this month, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan in the second of a three part feature… read part one here. “There’s a very limited pool of finance in the U.K.,” observed British filmmaker Christopher Nolan. “To be honest, it’s a very clubby kind of […]

Cracks, 2009. Directed by Jordan Scott. Starring Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde and Imogen Poots. SYNOPSIS: A diving team of adolescent girls at a boarding school adore their inspirational teacher, Miss G (Eva Green), whose favourite is team captain, Di (Juno Temple). But when an aristocratic new girl arrives, focuses shift, and tensions begin, […]