Safe House, 2012. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Sam Shephard, Brendan Gleeson and Robert Patrick. SYNOPSIS: A junior CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) gets caught up in an espionage scandal and is forced to go on the run with a high priority prisoner (Denzel Washington) after their safe house comes […]

There Be Dragons, 2011. Written and Directed by Roland Joffé. Starring Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott and Olga Kurylenko. SYNOPSIS: In the wake of the Spanish Civil War, a journalist discovers a dark and devastating connection between his estranged father and a candidate for canonization. Okay I’ll admit it, when first tasked with writing […]

Luke Owen attends the London press conference for The Muppets… When I went a press screening for The Muppets two weeks ago, I also had the pleasure of going to one of the most surreal yet amazing things I’ve ever attended. I went to a press conference with Kermit and Miss Piggy (and director James […]

Hostel: Part II, 2007. Directed by Eli Roth. Starring Lauren German, Roger Bart, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips and Richard Burgi. SYNOPSIS: Three female Americans travelling through Europe find themselves at a hostel with a violent reputation. Despite having some problems with Hostel (2005), I have to admit that overall I didn’t think it was too […]

Chronicle, 2012. Directed by Josh Trank. Starring Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell and Michael Kelly. SYNOPSIS: Three high school friends – Andrew (Dane DeHaan), Steve (Michael B. Jordan), and Matt (Alex Russell) – stumble upon a mysterious underground cavern that holds an object with the capability to reward them with telepathic power. What […]

Tom Jolliffe looks forward to the return of Michael Biehn… Growing up in the 80s with a love of cinema that would eventually flourish into full blown geekdom, I – like many film nerds of my generation – was weaned on the brilliance of 80s action cinema. For most film fanatics there’s a rite of […]

Muppets fan Luke Owen weighs in on the debate over the ‘new voices’… Yesterday, I reviewed the newest movie from Muppet Studios, The Muppets. But one point kept coming up when I was talking about the film that I wanted to address here. There has been one big problem hanging over the Muppets, not just […]

Anghus Houvouras selects his five most disappointing films of all time…  With this week’s 3D re-release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, it feels like a good time to look back at some of the biggest disappointments ever to hit cinemas. The films that we waited years for, and the ones that […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors John Bruno, Phil Tippett, Edson Williams and Bruce Woloshyn about the making of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1… “Bill [Condon] told me they were going to break it up in two parts because the book was so large,” recalls American Visual Effects Supervisor John Bruno […]

Rumours of Harrison Ford’s potential return to the character of Deckard in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming sequel/reboot/remake of seminal 80s sci-fi Blade Runner have again been flatly denied by Alcon Entertainment, Deadline reports. Alcon’s co-founder Andrew Kosove said, “What we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to […]