Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With the recent box office disappointment of Green Lantern (which currently stands on a world-wide gross of just $125m), TheWrap posted an article this past week looking at reasons why 2011’s ‘superhero summer’ has been ‘a bust’. Now, I’m not […]

Liam Trim with ten reasons to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon… The latest Transformers movie has been critically panned from virtually every corner. Danny Leigh off that BBC show with Claudia Winkleface is even calling for strike action to boycott the movie in The Guardian and thus send a message to studio execs. But […]

The Silent House, 2010. Directed by Gustavo Hernández. Starring Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi, María Salazar and Gustavo Alonso. SYNOPSIS: A young woman and her father begin work on renovating a sleepy country cottage, which hides a dark secret. Whatever happened to traditional ghost stories set in creepy old houses? Modern horror has become a competition […]

Liam Trim discusses David Cronenberg’s upcoming non-fiction adaptation, A Dangerous Method… As cinemagoers and telly watchers we are used to accomplished adaptations of fictions born on the page. Whether it’s the BBC’s latest Jane Austen costume drama or blockbusters like the Harry Potter series, we consume creations transformed from the page to the screen all […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker George Lucas in the fourth of a six part feature… read parts one, two and three. For over a decade filmmaker George Lucas had been developing a project which was a gender reversal of the Biblical story about Moses being hidden as a baby in the bulrushes. […]

Members of the classic comedy group Monty Python have lent their voices to a new 3D animated film based on the memoirs of the late Graham Chapman. A Liar’s Autobiography, published in 1980, was a deliberately fanciful account of his life and a taped reading by Chapman will be used, along with animation and added […]

Rohan Morbey selects his Five Essential Nicolas Cage Films… Nicolas Cage is unlike any other leading man in Hollywood. His films choices are anything but ‘safe’ and he doesn’t choose the same predictable, boring characters time after time. His films are undeniably hit and miss, and his last few pictures have not done his talent […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular US vampire series True Blood, ‘She’s Not There’… So Sookie is a fairy or fae or whatever you want to call her. Just don’t call her unattractive because that she is still not. She gets a chance to visit what I call “Fairyland” […]

Sliding Doors, 1998. Written and Directed by Peter Howitt. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch and Jeanne Tripplehorn. SYNOPSIS: A young woman’s life unfolds in two entirely different directions. What if? It’s a big question in all of our lives. What if I’d told her? What if we’d stayed together? What if I’d got […]

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, 2010. Directed by Hark Tsui. Starring Andy Lau, Bingbing Li, Carina Lau and Tony Leung Ka Fai. SYNOPSIS: In 7th Century China, An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu. A good detective […]