The New Zealand Film Archive and the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) have announced that the first three reels (around 30 minutes) of a British silent film called The White Shadow have been discovered. The 1923 film starring Betty Compson and Clive Brook is notable because it appears to be the earliest surviving feature credited […]

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, 2011. Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Starring James Franco, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, Tyler Labine and Freida Pinto. SYNOPSIS: A cure for Alzheimer’s Disease is tested on a chimpanzee, who develops advanced mental abilities and leads a revolution against his human masters. Rise of the […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… This week’s Page and Screen doesn’t actually feature any screen as such. In fact it’s little more than a completely shameless bit of self promotion on my part. Nevertheless I’ll try to justify it by claiming that what I’m about to shamelessly advertise fits in […]

Trevor Hogg chats with art director Paul Inglis… “My parents appreciated the arts,” says British Art Director Paul Inglis who as a child was taken to the theatre and gallery exhibitions by his statistician father. “They were happy for me to take the route I did through art college. I did a master’s degree at […]

The Castle, 1997. Directed by Rob Sitch. Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Anthony Simcoe, Sophie Lee and Wayne Hope. SYNOPSIS: An eccentric family fight for their home when the government seize their property for an airport expansion. Voted Australia’s “favourite film”, The Castle is a simple, short comedy about one man’s fight to stand […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood, “I Wish I Was the Moon”… Sookie has been rather warmly welcomed back into the world of sex by her amnesiac of a housemate vampire, Eric. The episode starts off very steamy but it is interrupted by King […]

Gary Collinson reviews Batman Live from the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle… Chances are that if you’ve seen any of the publicity material from Batman Live, you’ve probably already formed a good idea of what to expect from the big-budget arena show that kicked off its world-wide run a couple of weeks back in Manchester. Yes, […]

Unstoppable, 2010. Directed by Tony Scott. Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee and Kevin Dunn. SYNOPSIS: A veteran engineer and young conductor attempt to avert a disaster by stopping an out-of-control freight train from derailing in a densely-populated area. Some directors like to hook up, again and again, with certain actors. They […]

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell , 2010. Directed by Sérgio Machado. Starring Milton Gonçalves, Mariana Ximenes and Marieta Severo. SYNOPSIS: Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take his body on one final tour of his favourite spots around Bahia in Brazil. We get superhero reboots and bombastic blockbusters every summer. But is that what […]

The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951. Directed by Charles Crichton. Starring Alec Guiness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James and Alfi Bass. SYNOPSIS: A bank clerk finds himself drawn into a gold smuggling racket. You may as well know something right now. You will have to get a new mouth after watching The Lavender Hill Mob, because the […]