Liam Trim on why Steve McQueen’s Shame should never be censored… Steve McQueen’s (Hunger) film about a sex addict in New York, played by Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class, Prometheus), will not be shown in Singapore. Censors there have demanded that certain scenes be cut. In particular, a graphic threesome involving Fassbender’s protagonist Brandon Sullivan […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Visual Effects Supervisors Nick Davis, Gary Brozenich, Olivier Dumont and Bryan Hirota as well as CG Supervisor Martin Chamney about their work on Wrath of the Titans… “It certainly changed the stylistic approach towards them,” states Visual Effects Supervisor Nick Davis (The Dark Knight) who collaborated with filmmaker Louis Leterrier on […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Town, 2010. Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively, Jeremy Renner, Chris Cooper and Pete Postlethwaite. The Town is a well crafted crime story adapted from the Chuck Hogan novel Prince of […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of the Dark Knight had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Having produced four Batman movies in the space of eight years, Warner Bros. found their lucrative feature film series lying in tatters following the disastrous release of the Joel Schumacher-directed sequel Batman […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Fighter, 2010. Directed by David O. Russell. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Melissa Leo. The Fighter is the amazing true story of the unsuccessful professional boxer ‘Irish’ Micky Ward (Wahlberg), his rise to become the […]

Oliver Davis reviews the fourth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… Garden of Bones. Directed by David Petrarca. Written by Vanessa Taylor. There was no time for The Wall this week, not even in the opening credits. The Westeros map has become rather crammed as of late, so much so that we skipped past […]

Outcast of the Islands, 1951. Directed by Carol Reed. Starring Robert Morley, Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson and Wendy Hiller. SYNOPSIS: Escaping scandal in Makassar, a morally compromised man finds himself on a remote Indian Ocean trading outpost, where his malign influence soon spreads to all around him. The name Joseph Conrad might not immediately ring […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Shutter Island, 2010. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley. Shutter Island is the 1950s-set psychological thriller from Martin Scorsese that will have you […]

The Cabin in the Woods, 2012. Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams, Anna Hutchison and Fran Kranz. SYNOPSIS: Five friends get much more than they bargained for during a break at a remote cabin in the woods. THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW. There are some film […]

Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Although we’ll be touch upon the likes of The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Wolverine and Daredevil in this edition of The Week in Spandex, the past week has been dominated by The Avengers, with Joss Whedon’s epic superhero […]