Dobermann, 1997. Directed by Jan Kounen. Starring Vincent Cassel, Tchéky Karyo and Monica Bellucci. SYNOPSIS: Following a brutal bank robbery, the charismatic criminal Dobermann (Vincent Cassel) is pursued by the Paris police, headed up by the sadistic renegade cop Christini (Tchéky Karyo). Coming off the back of his acclaimed performances in Jean-François Richet’s two-part crime […]

The Tunnel (German: Der Tunnel), 2001. Directed by Roland Suso Richter. Starring Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Alexandra Maria Lara and Sebastian Koch. SYNOPSIS: A group of West Germans hatch an audacious plan to rescue their loves ones from the communist regime of the East by tunnelling beneath the Berlin Wall. Film fans love a good […]

Assault on the Pacific: Kamikaze a.k.a. For Those We Love, 2007. Directed by Taku Shinjo. Starring Keiko Kishi, Satoshi Tokushige, Yosuke Kubozuka and Michitaka Tsutsui. SYNOPSIS: A World War II epic about a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots and their journey through training and first missions toward the terrifying destiny of their battle with the […]

Our weekly round-up of all the talking points from the world of movie superheroes… For the fourth week in the row Warner Bros. deliver the top story of the past seven days with the long overdue confirmation that both Joseph-Gordon Levitt and Marion Cotillard are to reunite with their Inception director Christopher Nolan on next […]

BloodRayne 3 a.k.a. BloodRayne: The Third Reich, 2010. Directed by Uwe Boll. Starring Natassia Malthe, Michael Paré, Brendan Fletcher and William Belli. SYNOPSIS: A half vampire fights against Nazis in Europe during World War Two. A Nazi commandant is turned into a vampire and aims to inject Adolf Hitler with the half vampire blood to […]

Killer’s Moon, 1978. Written and Directed by Alan Birkinshaw. Starring Anthony Forrest, Tom Marshall, David Jackson, Georgina Kean, Nigel Gregory, Jane Hayden, Alison Elliot and JoAnne Good. SYNOPSIS: Four drugged-up mental patients escape from the local asylum and seek refuge in a remote Lake District hotel where a class of stranded school-girls are staying. As […]

The Grim Reaper (Italian: La commare secca), 1962. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Marisa Solinas, Allen Midgette, Giancarlo De Rosa and Alfredo Leggi. SYNOPSIS: When a prostitute is brutally murdered in a park near the Tiber River in Rome, the police track down all visitors to the park that night in the hope of catching […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisor John ‘DJ’ Des Jardin… “2001: A Space Odyssey was my inspiration in 1968 when I was seven years old; it freaked me out even at such a young age because it seemed so real,” states Warner Bros. Visual Effects Supervisor John “DJ” DesJardin whose fascination with science fiction […]

Female writing/producing duo Monica Breen and Alison Schapker are long-term collaborators of J.J. Abrams. Having worked on his TV shows Alias and Lost, they have also just renewed a deal with Warner Bros to co-executive produce Fringe for a fourth season. They are also said to be developing another series for Abrams’ Bad Robot company. […]