Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The Super Bowl takes place this Sunday and despite the fact we won’t be getting any advertising spots for The Dark Knight Rises or The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel will ensure that superhero fans have plenty to get excited over […]

Ben Gazzara, the veteran actor of the stage and screen, has passed away on Friday at the age of 81 after battling pancreatic cancer. Born in New York City in 1930, Gazzara studied acting at the Dramatic Workshop in New York before joining the celebrated Actors Studio and began his career with a number of […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Boogie Nights, 1997. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, Heather Graham and William H. Macy. Boogie Nights is the story of Dirk Diggler (Wahlberg) and how he and […]

Super, 2010. Directed by James Gunn. Starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon and Liv Tyler. SYNOPSIS: An ordinary man decides to superhero suit up and tackle crime himself. What would happen if an ordinary guy with no superpowers was to one day decide enough is enough, don a costume and fight crime? This is […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Trainspotting, 1996. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd and Kelly Macdonald. Danny Boyle’s stylish and charismatic film adapted from the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name tells the […]

Coriolanus, 2011. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain. SYNOPSIS: After being banished from the city, a military hero returns to Rome in order to extract his revenge. William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus might not be the most famous of his plays, and certainly not, in my opinion, […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett… “In those days very few people were doing visual effects and it was difficult to find work,” recalls American Visual Effects Supervisor Phil Tippett. “Ray Harryhausen [The Golden Voyage of Sinbad] would do his kind of shows, and every once and a while somebody […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Unforgiven, 1992. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett and Saul Rubinek. Unforgiven is the magnificent and dark story of William Munny (Eastwood) returning to his old ways as a gunslinger […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Usual Suspects, 1995. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin Spacey. The Usual Suspects is a stylish little neo-noir with a meager $6 million budget […]