Simon Moore selects his Five Essential Misfit Movies… So called because they feature (and appeal to) misfits of all ages. Why not ‘Teen Movies’? Reeks a bit of Disneyfication to me. Brings to mind the ruthless, sickeningly effective demographic hunting tactics of High School Musical or the Twilight saga. There’s no place for such non-smutty […]

I Saw The Devil (a.k.a. Akmareul boatda), 2010. Directed by Jee-woon Kim. Starring Byung-hun Lee and Min-sik Choi. SYNOPSIS: A serial killer has long evaded the best efforts of the authorities until he picks the wrong victim – the daughter of a retired police chief and fiancée to a Korean Secret Service agent. It will […]

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: The arrogant and reckless warrior Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is stripped of his powers […]

Street Wars, 2011. Directed by Keoni Waxman. Starring Steven Seagal, Kyle Cassie & Peter Graham-Gaudreau. SYNOPSIS: Elijah Kane (Steven Seagal), the head of a crack undercover police unit, leads his team in a race against time to bring to justice the cold blooded gang flooding the Seattle streets with a lethal drug. Steven Seagal has […]

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 […]