Swinging with the Finkels, 2011. Directed by Jonathan Newman. Starring Martin Freeman, Mandy Moore, Melissa George,Jerry Stiller, Jonathan Silverman and Angus Deayton. SYNOPSIS: A London couple take up swinging in an effort to save their failing marriage. It is a big year for Martin Freeman. This could well be the defining year of his cinematic […]

The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat, 2012. Directed by Richard Symons. SYNOPSIS: Revealing interviews and archive footage are used to tell the story of Yasser Arafat, the controversial Palestinian leader. This is the first of twelve documentaries intending to show the lives of some of the world’s most influential leaders. Considering one of my last […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Get Carter, 1971. Directed by Mike Hodges. Starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, and Britt Ekland. Get Carter is a classic British gangster film that sees Jack Carter (Caine) arrive in Northern England with questions about the recent […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Peter Sciretta writes for /Film on April 4th reagrding the new trailer for the Colin Farrell-starring Total Recall: “The trailer for Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake seems to have impressed more than disappointed — I guess that’s the positive side of having an audience with very low expectations. […]

A couple of weeks ago we heard from Randy Couture that he expected filming to commence on The Expendables 3 later in the year, despite the fact that the second installment in the star-studded action series doesn’t arrive in cinemas until August. Well, if that proves to be the case, we could be seeing another […]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, 1991. Directed by Michael Pressman. Starring Kenn Scott, Lauri Faso, Michelan Sisti, Robbie Rist, Leif Tilden, Adam Carl, Mark Caso, Brian Tochi, Ernie Reyes Jr., Paige Turco, François Chau and David McCharen. SYNOPSIS: The teenage mutant ninja turtles must face their past and fight against […]

Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With Marvel’s The Avengers arriving in cinemas in just a few short weeks, you’d expect Disney to kick the marketing campaign up a gear, but when said marketing campaign has already been in overdrive for the last couple of months, things […]

Rampart, 2011. Directed by Oren Moverman. Starring Woody Harrelson, Ice Cube, Ned Beatty, Anne Heche, Cynthia Nixon, Brie Larson, Robin Wright, Steve Buscemi and Sigourney Weaver. SYNOPSIS: In 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) – the last of a dying breed of Vietnam-vet ‘cowboy’ cops – struggles to survive amid accusations […]

Martin Deer on why the world needs the Man of Steel… This week a new, and rather fantastic, synopsis for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel was released. It gave nothing away about the story, as was to be expected, but there were a couple of things in there that really got the fan in me […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Brazil, 1985. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin and Kim Greist. Brazil is Terry Gilliam’s black comedy futuristic fantasy film is set in a dystopian world that […]