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 […]

It’s been rumoured for a while but now its official – Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to return to his signature role as the unstoppable killing machine (now with added rust!) in a new instalment of the Terminator franchise. Deadline reports that Arnie and director Justin Lin (The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious […]

Three Kings, 1999. Written and Directed by David O. Russell. Starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis, Nora Dunn and Jamie Kennedy. SYNOPSIS: Determined to take home more than sand fleas in the aftermath of the first Gulf War, four American soldiers go off into the Iraqi desert to find millions […]

Liam Trim provides some alternatives to the Royal Wedding in the first of a three part feature… If you’re not fed up with the circus yet, you soon will be. Every clowning performer, every newsreader, commentator and gushing crowd member, will be salt rubbed into your severely wounded mood. Gossiping and gawping at two rich […]

A third outing for those Wyld Stallyns, Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan, has been rumoured for nigh on twenty years now, but things appear to be moving forward at pace as Alex Winter revealed via Twitter that he’s got his hands on a completed screenplay. Bill & Ted 3 first took a […]