Lawless, 2012. Directed by John Hillcoat. Starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce. SYNOPSIS: In Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, three brothers find their bootlegging business coming under threat from corrupt officials who want a cut of their profits. The Bondurant brothers were a trio of siblings; Forrest (Tom […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Jason Statham Rampage’… The Stath broke onto the big screen scene following a Guy Ritchie double smash of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels then Snatch. The former Olympic diver, swimwear model and wheeler dealer […]

Prisoners of War – Series 1 (a.k.a. Hatufim), 2010. Created by Gideon Raff. Starring Ishai Golan, Yoram Toledano, Yaël Abecassis, Mili Avital, Assi Cohen and Adi Ezroni. SYNOPSIS: After seventeen years, three prisoners of war are returned back to their homes and families. One of the prisoners returns home in a coffin whilst the other […]

Considering the early reaction from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans towards producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman’s planned feature film reboot, it’s unlikely that too many tears were shed when Paramount announced last month that it was temporarily shutting down pre-production on Ninja Turtles and bumping the film back from a Christmas Day 2013 […]

With The Dark Knight Rises just around the corner, Martin Deer looks forward to the closing chapter of Christopher Nolan’s epic Dark Knight trilogy… In four days time the final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy comes to a close with the release of The Dark Knight Rises. This represents the end of something […]

Act of Valor, 2012. Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh. StarringAlex Veadov, Roselyn Sánchez, Nestor Serrano and Emilio Rivera. SYNOPSIS: During a mission to rescue a CIA agent a larger plot of terrorism is discovered. Act of Valour is, quite frankly, a terrible film. It tries to be incredibly powerful and poignant yet fails […]

Luke Owen takes in a Friday the 13th marathon at the Prince Charles Cinema… A little over 2 years ago, I wrote a retrospective on slasher staple Friday the 13th and its many sequels. I have always had a fondness for the series and have lost count the amount of times I’ve watched them. Those […]

Last week Katie Szyszko of Midnight Review was kind enough to write a nice review for Holy Franchise, Batman!; here’s an excerpt… Holy Franchise, Batman!… is a companion to everything the humanity knows about the screen Batman, whom I do not have to introduce (I hope). From TV series through animations to film, Gary Collinson […]

Anghus Houvouras looks forward to ‘Phase Two’ of the Marvel Cinematic Universe… After a massively successful year, Marvel Studios rolled out details on their next slate of projects on Saturday, including much anticipated sequels to Iron Man, Thor and Captain America, as well as a couple of lesser known new film properties: Ant-Man and Guardians […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Rebecca Keegan, for the Los Angeles Times, writes about the San Diego Comic-Con event itself… “Begun in 1970 as a small comic-book convention attended mainly by adult men, Comic-Con International is now a multimedia smorgasbord attracting more than 125,000 people annually — including throngs of women, toddlers, school […]