Laputa – Castle in the Sky, 1986. Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Featuring the voice talents of Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek, Mark Hamill, Cloris Leachman and Jim Cummings. SYNOPSIS: A young boy helps a girl with a mysterious crystal hunted by pirates, the army and secret agents in the search for a […]

Thor, 2011. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins, Jaimie Alexander, Joshua Dallas, Tadanobu Asano, Clark Gregg, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS:Cast out of Asgard by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) arrives […]

Budrus, 2009. Written and Directed by Julia Bacha. Starring Ayed Morrar, Iltezam Morrar, Kobi Snitz, Ahmed Awwad, Yasmine Levy and Doron Spielman. SYNOPSIS: A documentary depicting the non-violent demonstrations by resident of Budrus against the building of the Israeli West Bank barrier inside of their village. Walls aren’t always great. Take the Berlin wall for […]

The Keep, 1983. Written and Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson, Robert Prosky, Morgan Sheppard, Royston Tickner, Michael Carter and Bruce Payne. SYNOPSIS: A detachment of the German army is sent to guard a mysterious and strategically important Romanian citadel. When they start turning up dead, […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Movie to Video Game Adaptations… If you’re a fan of movies and/or video games then chances are you’ll already be more than aware that the movie tie-in is little more than a recipe for disaster. It seems that in developer-land, the phrase “Official Video Game of the Movie” provides […]

Luke Owen feasts on the ‘American Pie’ trilogy… Before I begin this week’s issue, I can already hear a lot of you alerting me to rule number one of my Talkin’ Trilogy series: 1. “It has to be a trilogy” So, the question is, is American Pie really a trilogy? I referred to Indiana Jones […]

London Boulevard, 2010. Directed by William Monahan. Starring Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Ray Winstone, Ben Chaplin, Stephen Graham and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: A man newly released from prison falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster. The trailer for London […]

Our weekly round-up of all the talking points from the world of movie superheroes including The Avengers, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, X-Men: First Class, Green Lantern, The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel and The Amazing Spider-Man… Warner Bros. may have grabbed most of the attention these past few weeks with casting announcements […]

Liam Trim provides some alternatives to the Royal Wedding in the third of a three part feature… The big day is upon us. The masculine apocalypse is now. The horsemen will round the corner towards Westminster Abbey any moment, dragging their cargo of the merry middle class and nostalgic Eton boy politicians, right into our […]

Unthinkable, 2010. Directed by Gregor Jordan. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Sheen, Brandon Routh, Carrie-Anne Moss, Stephen Root, Gil Bellows, Martin Donovan, Yara Shahidi, Sasha Roiz and Vincent Laresca. SYNOPSIS: A black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent have just two days to press a terror suspect into revealing the location of three nuclear bombs primed […]