Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… This weeks ‘quote’ is very short, from Edgar Wright, on Twitter… Received this in the mail. What can it mean? twitpic.com/9hnn6t — edgarwright (@edgarwright) May 5, 2012 There is no full article to read on this, despite a little coverage on /Film. Avengers Assemble has made over $200m […]

Matt Smith chats with British writer-director Kieron Hawkes about his debut feature, Piggy… Piggy, set in modern day London, follows Joe (Martin Compston) as he attempts to get revenge against those who murdered his brother. He’s helped by the titular character Piggy (Paul Anderson), in a violence-fuelled quest to avenge. I’d pretty much stumbled into […]

Piggy, 2012. Written and Directed by Kieron Hawkes. Starring Paul Anderson, Martin Compston, Josh Herdman, Neil Maskell and Louise Dylan. SYNOPSIS: Joe (Compston) struggles with the fear he feels living in modern day London. After his brother is murdered by a bunch of thugs, he comes across a mysterious stranger named Piggy (Anderson) who persuades […]

You know you’ve got a good thing going when your most recent movie shattered all box office records on its way to a global haul of almost $2.8 billion, and it’s completely natural that you’ll want to exploit this further. However, Avatar director James Cameron has decided to go one step further, telling the New […]

Our weekly round-up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Although The Avengers finally arrived on North American shores yesterday, we’ll start things off this week with the third and final trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, which hit the internet earlier on Tuesday following a viral campaign that included […]

Luke Graham dissects the latest trailer for Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man… So the third and presumably final trailer for Sony’s reboot of the Spider-Man franchise is now online… and I’m still feeling more apprehensive than amazed by what’s on show. To explain my problems with this project, let’s go through the trailer, which you can […]

Hulk, 2003. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Nick Nolte, and Josh Lucas. SYNOPSIS: An accident results in a scientist turning into a big green monster whenever he gets angry. The question I’m left pondering once the credits have rolled is – was Ang Lee the right person to direct […]

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 […]