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 […]

My Best Enemy (German: Mein bester Feind), 2011. Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger. Starring Moritz Bleibtreu, Georg Friedrich, Ursula Strauss, Marthe Keller and Udo Samel. SYNOPSIS: In Austria during World War Two, the son of an Jewish art gallery owner is shocked to find that the family friend has been working as a Nazi officer. After […]

British filmmaker Ridley Scott heads back to the realm of science fiction next summer with Prometheus, the ‘prequel’ to his 1979 hit Alien, and now Deadline are reporting that the three-time Academy Award nominated filmmaker will follow this up by returning to another of his former glories, the cult classic Blade Runner. The original film […]

Trevor Hogg chats with VFX Supervisors Alessandro Cioffi, Sean Faden, Richard Higham, Dave Morley, Charlie Noble and Edson Williams about the visual effects industry… There was a time when visual effects were viewed as B-movie trickery. The path to mainstream respectability began with the landmark release of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the establishment […]