Go to Blazes, 1962. Directed by Michael Truman. Starring Dave King, Robert Morley, Norman Rossington, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Maggie Smith and David Lodge. SYNOPSIS: Three robbers plan a heist using a fire engine as a getaway vehicle, but their scheme begins to unravel when they are mistaken for real firemen. British cinema has had […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Being John Malkovich, 1999. Directed by Spike Jonze. Starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and John Malkovich. Being John Malkovich is a black comedy-fantasy from the mind of Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. The film received […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Cinderella Man, 2005. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Bruce McGill and Paddy Considine. The beautiful story of boxing legend James J. Braddock is brought to the big screen in a fantastic […]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Goran Visnjic and Geraldine James. SYNOPSIS: A journalist teams up with a troubled computer hacker to search for a woman who has been missing for forty years. I must […]

Carnage, 2011. Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. SYNOPSIS: Two sets of parents meet after their children are involved in a fight but their increasingly childish behaviour leads to chaos. Take four solid actors, (Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Cristoph Waltz and John C. Reily) a respected […]

The Brigand of Kandahar, 1965. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont, Yvonne Romain and Katherine Woodville. SYNOPSIS: A mixed race lieutenant joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen in an offensive against the British forces in India. Afghanistan’s a tough one. Hard to know what to make of it all, whichever way […]

The Scarlet Blade, 1963. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Jack Hedley, Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, June Thorburn and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: The daughter of an anti-royalist loyal to Oliver Cromwell falls for the Scarlet Blade – a dashing Robin Hood figure leading the Royalist rebels. Civil Wars aren’t the most sensible of affairs at the […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… A Fistful of Dollars, 1964. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood. A Fistful of Dollars is the first in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western ‘Dollars’ trilogy and introduces us to the ‘Man with No Name’ (Eastwood). On his arrival […]

Shame, 2011. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. SYNOPSIS: A sex addict’s life becomes increasingly more desperate when his sister moves in. Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) is a man unable to emotionally connect, desensitised to social interaction by a habitual stream of Chinese takeaways and Internet pornography. His laptop at home […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… The Telegraph covered a very strange story when the inevitable anti-The Artist publicity machine began in full swing with Kim Novak, star of Hitchcock’s Vertigo, chiming in: “Novak took out a full-page advert in Variety magazine earlier this week, where she said: ‘The [Artist] could and should have […]