Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… 9 weeks in. ¾ of the way through. Only 3 weeks left. By now, we must only have the strong candidates left right? I’ll pause while you stop laughing at my silly suggestion. This week saw our candidates take on the world of English sparkling […]

Trevor Hogg chats with illustrator Loston Wallace who provides a personal tour of his commissioned artworks… “I’ve been drawing since I was four years old,” states American Illustrator Loston Wallace whose fascination with comic books, cartoons, science fiction, and horror films, such as the Universal Monster classics, is reflected in his artwork. “My formal art […]

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, 2011. Directed by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. Starring Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Lake Bell, Michelle Borth, Nick Kroll, Tyler Labine, Lindsay Sloane, Lucy Punch, Will Forte and Don Johnson. SYNOPSIS: When his father announces that he’s selling his beach house, a thirty-something party animal famous for throwing lavish themed […]

The House by the Cemetery, 1981. Written and Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco and Ania Pieron. SYNOPSIS: A family move from New York to an isolated house, by a cemetery. Supernatural happenings occur. Banned as a “video nasty” in the 80s, its HD restored print is being released by Arrow Films […]

Luke Owen attends the ‘Summer Screens’ outdoor screening of the classic time-travel comedy Back to the Future… A couple of months ago a friend of mine posted up on his Facebook that he was attending an outdoor screening of one of my favourite movies of all time – Back to the Future. Intrigued, I looked […]

Oliver Davis reviews the seventh episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… A Man Without Honor. Directed by David Nutter. Written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Although not as good as last week’s episode, A Man Without Honor Honour is amongst the best of the series thus far. Nearly every other scene excels in […]

Farewell to the King, 1989. Directed by John Milius. Starring Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae and Gerry Lopez. SYNOPSIS: After escaping a Japanese firing squad during World War II, a renegade American soldier flees to Borneo where he is adopted by a local tribe and made their king. John Milius’ career in film has […]

Dark Shadows, 2012. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz and Bella Heathcote. SYNOPSIS: After being imprisoned for two centuries, a vampire finds himself set free in 1972 and discovers that his dysfunctional descendants have allowed his ancestral home […]

How I Spent My Summer Vacation (a.k.a Get the Gringo), 2012. Directed by Adrian Grunberg. Starring Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Dolores Heredia, Peter Stormare, Dean Norris and Bob Gunton. SYNOPSIS: A career criminal is sent to a tough Mexican prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy. […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Betsy Sharkey writes for the LA Times about foul language in mainstram cinema: “Now, we head into summer, the prime time for big, bruising action flicks and lots of racy comic outrage and a grand opportunity for filmmakers to cross boundaries of taste on the language front. I’m […]