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 […]

Whisky Galore!, 1949. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. Starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Scottish islanders attempt to plunder a ship’s cargo of whisky when it becomes stranded on the shore. Some films need a run-up. They need their entrance onto the DVD market trumpeted by fanfare, or at least a […]

Captain America: The First Avenger, 2011. Directed by Joe Johnston. Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Sebastian Stan and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: After volunteering for a top secret military research programme, Steve Rogers is turned into the super soldier Captain America. I’ve never really known much at […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Due to the impending deadline for Holy Franchise and a review of Batman Live that’s in the works, there’s a slight change of format with this edition of ‘The Week in Spandex’… in fact, it’s more a collection of […]

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 aliens attack the town of Absolution, a loner with no memory of his past holds the key to their defeat. Cowboys and Aliens. Cowboys and aliens. Cowboys… and aliens… […]

Limitless, 2011. Directed by Neil Burger. Starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel and Johnny Whitworth. SYNOPSIS: A writer takes an experimental mind-enhancing ‘smart drug’, attracting the attention of shadowy forces determined to use his newfound abilities for their own gain. Is it possible to be a genius in an age when […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… Warning: This article contains spoilers that may induce suicide. When I finally saw Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, just a few days after its release, I was ecstatic to find that the franchise bowed out by reclaiming its magical mojo. For me […]

Trevor Hogg chats with author Daniel H. Wilson about filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s upcoming cinematic adaptation of his novel Robopocalypse… Hollywood director Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan), upon reading a partially written manuscript about an artificial intelligence known as Archos which takes over modern technology and converts into it a lethal weapon against humanity, optioned the […]

Iron Lord (Russian: Yaroslav. Tysyachu let nazad), 2010. Directed by Dmitri Korobkin. Starring Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Svetlana Chuikina, Aleksey Kravchenko, Viktor Verzhbitskiy and Valeriy Zolotukhin. SYNOPSIS: The Russian Prince Yaroslav struggles to maintain order in his kingdoms as barbarian hordes and slave-traders carve their way from one settlement to the next, threatening his power over the […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood, “I Hate You, I Love You”… So Sookie seems to be falling for the same man, well vampire, that she used to absolutely loathe. Although Eric has become a character who has lost his “vampire balls”, he has […]