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 […]

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… […]