Panic Button, 2011. Directed by Chris Crow. Starring Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jack Gordon, Michael Jibson, Elen Rhys and Joshua Richards. SYNOPSIS: A group of four win a chartered flight to New York via a social networking site, but the competition is not what it seems and neither are the competition winners. The paranoia around social […]

Trevor Hogg delves into Writing with Hitchcock by Steve DeRosa to explore the collaborations of director Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter John Michael Hayes in the first of a two part feature… “A lot of people embrace the auteur theory,” observed legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. “But it’s difficult to know what someone means by it. I […]

Screenwriter-turned-director Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout) was at the Long Beach Comic Con this past weekened, where he took part in a Q&A about his plans for the upcoming Marvel sequel Iron Man 3, which will see him reunite with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang star Robert Downey Jr. for Tony Stark’s third […]

Saint (a.k.a. Sint a.k.a. Saint Nick), 2010. Written and Directed by Dick Maas. Starring Huub Stapel, Egbert Jan Weeber, Caro Lenssen, Bert Luppes, Madelief Blanken, Escha Tanihatu, Kees Boot and Ben Ramakers. SYNOPSIS: A vengeful Saint Nicholas descends on Amsterdam, unleashing a bloody wave of terror that forces an obsessive ex-cop to take the law […]

The Conversation, 1974. Written and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth MacRae, Teri Garr and Harrison Ford. SYNOPSIS: During a routine wire-tapping job, a surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when comes to suspect that the couple he is recording will […]

Maniac Cop, 1988. Directed by William Lustig. Starring Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith and Robert Z’Dar. SYNOPSIS: A killer in police uniform is dubbed the Maniac Cop after he starts taking out innocent people on the streets of New York City. The 80s had such a high output of schlocky […]

Mickey Rourke has been doing the press rounds these past few days to promote the release of his latest movie, Immortals, but ComingSoon took the opportunity to ask The Wrestler star about his thoughts on Sin City 2 – and specifically the news from Frank Miller that his and Robert Rodriguez’s screenplay for the upcoming […]

The Poet, 2003. Directed by Paul Hills. Starring Dougray Scott, Laura Harring, Jürgen Prochnow, Andrew Lee Potts and Erika Marozsán. SYNOPSIS: A contract killer in Vienna kills a young artist during a hit. After discovering the artists’ work, he promptly falls in love with his grieving sister. Ever since the outstanding Leon, contract killers in […]

The Outsiders, 1983. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Diane Lane. SYNOPSIS: Two rival teen gangs, the working class Greasers and the well-off Socs get caught up in frequent confrontation in 1960s Oklahoma. But when one of the Socs […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The Dark Knight Rises may no longer be looking to Occupy Wall Street but Christopher Nolan certainly has ambitious plans for his third and final Batman feature, with a member of the Official Dark Knight Rises Community posting an image […]