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 […]

Perfect Sense, 2011. Directed by David Mackenzie. Starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane and Ewen Bremner. SYNOPSIS: A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic sweeps the globe. The first thing to go is our sense of smell. Then we start to cry uncontrollably. Then an insatiable hunger as […]

We were promised that he’d return and now Deadline have confirmed that Danny Trejo’s former Mexican Federale will be back, with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez signing a deal with producer Alexander Rodnyansky to develop Machete Kills – the sequel to 2010’s Grindhouse spin-off Machete and the second instalment in a planned trilogy that will presumably conclude […]

The Watermen, 2011. Written and Directed by Matt L. Lockhart. Starring Jason Mewes, Richard Riehle, Floyd Abel, Luke Guldan and Tyler Johnson. SYNOPSIS: A group of sport fishermen and their attractive lady friends go on a fishing trip, but they soon get captured by some murderous watermen and must fight for their lives. What worse […]

Hostel, 2005. Directed by Eli Roth. Starring Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson and Eythor Gudjonsson. SYNOPSIS: Three backpackers travelling through Europe find themselves staying in a hostel with a dark secret. It’s difficult to deny that Hostel is an important film within the horror genre, ushering in a wave of torture porn. David Edelstein’s 2006 article […]

Following his comeback in the Planet Terror portion of the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino collaboration Grindhouse back in 2007, cult actor Michael Biehn – star of 80’s classics The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss – now seems to have a taste for exploitation flicks. Having made his directorial debut last year with the suspense […]

Tyrannosaur, 2011. Directed by Paddy Considine. Starring Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: A man whose life is spiralling out of control is given a chance at redemption when he meets a Christian charity shop worker. The feature debut from British actor Paddy Considine (Dead Man’s Shoes, Hot Fuzz), Tyrannosaur has been earning […]

Jake Wardle selects his ten favourite movie stares… Stares, glares, gazes… whatever you want to call them, the movies are full of them, and as far as I can tell nobody’s ever compiled a list of the best. Shocking, I’m sure you’ll agree, but true. For some, even the mention of ‘film’ will bring to […]