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 […]

Liam Trim provides some alternatives to the Royal Wedding in the second of a three part feature… My second suggestion of anti-Royal Wedding medication for the ordinary man, following the sensational spectacle of Thor, is a single strong dose of BBC drama United, shown on Sunday and now available on iPlayer. If Thor was grounded […]

Thief, 1981. Written and Directed by Michael Mann. Starring James Caan, Tuesday Weld, James Belushi, Dennis Farina, William Petersen and Robert Prosky. SYNOPSIS: A professional safecracker’s plan for going straight spirals out-of-control when he becomes indebted to a crime boss. Leaving behind the prison walls of his Emmy-winning T.V. movie The Jericho Mile, 1981 saw […]