Almighty Thor, 2011. Directed by Christopher Ray. Starring Patricia Velasquez, Kevin Nash, Richard Grieco, Cody Deal and Jess Allen. SYNOPSIS: When Loki attacks Asgard and bests Odin in combat, the only thing standing in the way of Armageddon is the God of Thunder, Thor. Chances are that if you’ve ever cast your eye over the […]

Cowboys & Aliens, 2011. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown and Keith Carradine. SYNOPSIS: A posse of cowboys attempt to defend Earth from extraterrestrial invaders. Cowboys and Aliens. Now there’s a high concept movie title if I ever heard one. There are cowboys. There […]

Win Win, 2011. Directed by Thomas McCarthy. Starring Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale, Alex Shaffer, Burt Young and Jeffrey Tambor. SYNOPSIS: A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach Mike Flaherty (Paul Giamatti) decides to ‘innocently’ relocate an elderly client with dementia, Leo Poplar (Burt ‘Paulie’ Young), into a nursing home to receive his guardian […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning film editor Anne V. Coates… “When I was a really small girl I was very horsey; I used to think I’d like to be a race horse trainer,” recalls British film editor Anne V. Coates whose cinematic career spans over six decades. “Once I reached about 16 and became […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood – “Run”… Sookie is dying! Sookie is dying! No, not really. Obviously they weren’t going to kill off the main character of the series. Sookie survives and the first thing she does…has an erotic dream which begins with […]

Cowboys & Aliens, 2011. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown and Keith Carradine. SYNOPSIS: When a spaceship arrives in the Wild West region of Arizona, only a posse of cowboys stand in the way an alien invasion. It’s 1873 – a lone cowboy (Daniel […]

War of Resistance, (a.k.a. Return to the Hiding Place), 2011. Directed by Peter C. Spencer. Starring John Rhys-Davies, Craig Robert Young, David Thomas Jenkins, Rachel Spencer Hewitt and Stass Klassen. SYNOPSIS: When a young resistance fighter witnesses atrocities towards the Jews, he’s drawn into a web of espionage and clandestine activities. When he meets a […]

Conan the Barbarian, 2011. Directed by Marcus Nispel. Starring Jason Momoa, Stephen Lang, Rachel Nichols, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan and Bob Sapp. SYNOPSIS: Conan the Cimmerian journeys across the continent of Hyboria on a quest to avenge the murder of his father and slaughter of his village. *** SPOILERS *** I went into Conan with […]

He might have hit pensionable age earlier this year, but 65-year-old action icon Sylvester Stallone is showing no signs of slowing down and retiring to the countryside. The Rocky star is currently filming the crime thriller Bullet to the Head with director Walter Hill and also has The Expendables 2 on his slate, while reports […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… After weeks of spoilers coming out of The Dark Knight Rises shoot, it makes a refreshing change to see some details emerging from Marvel Studios’ superhero team-up The Avengers, which kicked off in explosive fashion earlier in the week […]