Simon Moore selects his Five Essential James Bond Films… Picture this. It’s Saturday night. The TV schedule has failed you, yet again, on a Bank Holiday weekend, no less. Then a title jumps out at you from the onscreen menu. Ah… there’s a Bond film on… It doesn’t matter what title, it doesn’t matter when […]

The Thin Red Line, 1964. Directed by Andrew Marton. Starring Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Kieron Moore, Ray Daley and Bob Kanter. SYNOPSIS: A private and his sergeant clash during the heat of battle as American G.I.’s fight the Japanese in the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. In 1998 acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick […]

Following his Academy Award nomination for Best Director on The King’s Speech, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Tom Hooper in the first of a two-part feature… “I fell in love with directing at the age of twelve, at prep school in Highgate,” stated British filmmaker Tom Hooper who as a student came […]

Bernd Eichinger, producer of The Neverending Story, Perfume and Downfall, has passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 61. The legendary producer suffered a heart attack in his home whilst eating with family and is survived by his wife and daughter. Eichinger, as well as his work on independent features, produced the first […]

Indie filmmaker Kevin Smith debuted his latest offering Red State to a mixed reaction at Sundance on Sunday evening, but the biggest news came from the subsequent Q&A session in which the Clerks director announced that he would be adopting the unusual approach of distributing the film himself via ‘SModcast Pictures’. Smith’s plan is to […]

Crying with Laughter, 2009. Written and Directed by Justin Molotnikov. Starring Stephen McCole, Malcolm Shields, Andrew Neil, Jo Hartley, Micaiah Dring, Niall Greig Fulton and Laura Keenan. SYNOPSIS: A rising stand-up comedian finds himself taking a bad trip down memory lane after a chance meeting with an old school friend. Imagine Martin Scorsese’s The King […]

The Last Remake of Beau Geste, 1977. Directed by Marty Feldman. Starring Marty Feldman, Michael York, Ann-Margaret, Peter Ustinov, Sinéad Cusack, James Earl Jones, Burt Kwouk, Trevor Howard, Avery Schreiber, Irene Handl, Henry Gibson, Terry-Thomas, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan, Hugh Griffith and Ed McMahon. SYNOPSIS: Digby Geste (Feldman) and his ‘identical’ twin brother Beau (York) […]

Jackboots on Whitehall, 2010. Written and Directed by Edward McHenry and Rory McHenry. Featuring the voice talents of Ewan McGregor, Alan Cumming, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Rosamund Pike, Timothy Spall, Dominic West, Tom Wilkinson, Richard O’Brien, Stephen Merchant, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Pam Ferris and Brian Conley. SYNOPSIS: When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seize London […]

Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the action from the movie superhero world, which was of course dominated last time out by the first-look images of Chris Evans in Captain America: The First Avenger and Andrew Garfield in the as yet Untitled Spider-Man Reboot. We thought that Warner Bros. wouldn’t want their DC characters […]

22 Bullets (French: L’immortel), 2010. Directed by Richard Berry. Starring Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs, Gabriella Wright, Fani Kolarova, Daniel Lundh and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. SYNOPSIS: After being left for dead with 22 bullets riddled in his body, a retired mobster somehow survives and sets out to gain revenge on the only man who would […]