Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Oliver Gettell, for the LA Times, writes: “You’d think a tough guy like super-spy Nick Fury, the ringleader of the titular all-star superhero team in The Avengers, would have pretty thick skin. But it turns out Fury, or at least the actor who plays him, Samuel L. Jackson, […]

D.J. Haza presents the final entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Top Gun, 1986. Directed by Tony Scott. Starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside and Meg Ryan. Top Gun is possibly the coolest film ever made. It has the coolest characters – fighter […]

Gary Collinson presents an outlandish theory on The Dark Knight Rises… As I’m sure you’re already aware, a new trailer arrived online for The Dark Knight Rises this week and after months and months of speculation, we’re now starting to get some kind of idea about the story for the epic conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… If I’ve strategy learned anything from strategy this week’s Apprentice strategy, it’s that strategy having a strategy is a solid plan when strategy starting a business strategy, but strategy saying it over and over again can strategy become incredible annoying. Strategy. Yes, this week’s Apprentice […]

The Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers Assemble), 2012. Written and Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul Bettany. SYNOPSIS: When an alien being arrives and threatens the planet, a plan must […]

D.J. Haza presents the penultimate entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Nil By Mouth, 1997. Directed by Gary Oldman. Starring Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles and Laila Morse. Nil By Mouth is the dark and gritty tale of a family living on a London council estate and explores working […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor Nick Davis… “It was more by accident that I fell into that side of the industry,” states British Visual Effects Supervisor Nick Davis when discussing his career choice which he made two decades ago. “It was a great place where you can learn all aspects of […]

Léon, 1994. Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman. SYNOPSIS: A professional hitman takes under his wing a twelve year-old girl and trains her in his job. Léon may be an English speaking film set in New York City, but it has a distinctly European feel to it which can […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Crying Game, 1992. Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Brown and Tony Slattery. The Crying Game is Neil Jordan’s sensational psychological thriller about an IRA footsoldier who, after […]

Liam Trim with the latest ‘Page and Screen’… Just over a year ago, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize. Days later HBO snapped up the rights to the acclaimed novel. Egan apparently had HBO’s The Sopranos in mind at stages during the writing process and they have a reputation […]