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 […]

Quatermass and the Pit (US: Five Million Years to Earth), 1967. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Starring James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover. SYNOPSIS: When a Martian spacecraft linked to the origins of humanity is discovered at a London tube station, only Professor Bernard Quatermass is capable of unravelling its mysteries. If […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The recent ‘synopsis’ from The Dark Knight Rises may have been a bit of waste of time but some interesting bits and pieces have came out of the Los Angeles shoot this past week, the most intriguing (and spoilery) […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… In previous Page and Screens I’ve referred to the book How Fiction Works by James Wood. Last night, after returning home from seeing Beginners, I immediately plucked it off the shelf. Despite all the quirkiness of Mike Mills’s indie rom com, trying so hard to […]

Apple co-founder and former Pixar Animation Studios chief executive Steve Jobs passed away yesterday after losing a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56. Born in San Francisco, California in 1955, Jobs went on to become one of the most successful entreprenuers of the digital age after forming Apple, Inc. in the mid-1970s, and was […]