Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The big story this week is of course the release of the first trailer from Marvel Studio’s epic superhero ensemble, The Avengers, which arrived online this past Tuesday and seemed to go down a storm with the majority of […]

360, 2011. Directed by Fernando Meirelles. Starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Ben Foster, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: A look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in physical relationships. 360 is a fitting opening night movie for a prestigious international film festival such as LFF. Featuring […]

Like baking a cake, The Expendables 2 will be an amalgamation of many ingredients, coming together in (hopefully) blissful union. The first film was a slightly less complex recipe, with plenty of dashes and pinches here and there to please the action cinephiles. Like some cakes, it sank a little, but still tasted sweet enough. […]

Buried Alive, 1990. Directed by Frank Darabont. Starring Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton and Hoyt Axton. SYNOPSIS: A man is left buried alive after a failed murder attempt by his wife and her lover. Before turning his hand to bringing Stephen King’s material to the big screen with acclaimed adaptations of The Shawshank […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood in the fourth of a five part feature (read parts one, two and three)… “What I liked about this script is that it is faithful to the book, contrary to some previous versions, which had eliminated elements that in my opinion had to be preserved,” […]

A woman from Michigan has filed a lawsuit against FilmDistrict and theatre chain Emagine on the basis that the trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive was misleading. Sarah Deming objected to the movie being promoted as similar to Fast and Furious and other driving movies when in fact it “bore very little similarity to a […]

Green Lantern, 2011. Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett, Tim Robbins, Temuera Morrison, Taiki Waititi, Jay O. Sanders, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Sarsgaard and Clancy Brown. SYNOPSIS: The first human to be selected for the Green Lantern Corps, test-pilot Hal Jordon soon becomes Earth’s last hope […]

Bunraku, 2011. Directed by Guy Moshe. Starring Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Demi Moore and Gackt. SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic future where guns are banned, a mysterious drifter and a samurai team up to exact revenge on a ruthless crime lord. Bunraku is set in a world that has been ravaged by […]

Drive, 2011. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman. SYNOPSIS: When a Hollywood stuntman and in-demand getaway driver finds himself double-crossed by the mob, his only choice is to drive for his life. Much had been made of Drive before it […]

Red State, 2011. Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano, Nicholas Braun, Melissa Leo, Michael Parks, Stephen Root and John Goodman. SYNOPSIS: Three teens get more than they bargained for when they respond to an online sex advertisement, which leads them to a group of religious fundamentalists with a sinister hidden agenda. ‘Written […]