Gary Collinson selects his Essential Movie Superheroes… Although the comic-book superhero was generally overlooked by the movie industry until Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie (1978) made you believe a man could fly, Hollywood failed to capitalise on this success over the next couple of decades and a stigma soon became attached to the genre. Save […]

DJ Haza with more “Frustrated Ramblings Of An Aspiring Filmmaker”… 3D seems to be the next big thing in cinematic leaps forward, but is it really all it’s cracked up to be? Bullets seemingly fly past your head, explosions leap off the screen and the film world surrounds you in three different dimensions. Or so […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the fifth of a five-part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. Shot over a course of eighty-six days, Youth Without Youth (2007) is a cinematic adaptation of the novella by Mircea Eliade. Struck by lightning, a timid seventy year old academic […]

No Impact Man, 2009. Directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. Starring Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin. SYNOPSIS: Documentary following Colin Beavan, his wife Michelle and their two year old daughter Isabella as they attempt to live environmentally friendly for a year in New York. It only took about twenty minutes into ‘No Impact Man‘ […]

Following on from the sad news of comedy legend Leslie Nielsen’s passing comes word that Irvin Kershner has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 87. The American filmmaker – best known for directing the all-time classic Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, was born Philadelphia in 1923 and after serving […]

Machete, 2010. Directed by Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez. Starring Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Lindsay Lohan, Jeff Fahey, Cheech Marin, Steven Seagal, Don Johnson and Tom Savini. SYNOPSIS: An ex-Federale is out for revenge after he is set up, double-crossed and left for dead by a corrupt senator. They call […]

Veteran actor Leslie Nielsen passed away yesterday November 28th in a hospital in Florida after suffering complications from a bout of pneumonia, aged 84. Born in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1926, Nielsen began his career in the entertainment industry as a radio disc jockey before gaining a scholarship at New York’s Neighborhood Playhouse. After attending the […]

Date Night, 2010. Directed by Shawn Levy. Starring Steve Carell, Tina Fey, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Common, Mark Wahlberg, Ray Liotta, Mark Ruffalo, Taraji P. Henson and William Fichtner. SYNOPSIS: A case of mistaken identity turns a married couple’s attempt at a romantic evening into an unexpected adventure. Life, for most of us, boils down […]

Deep Red a.k.a. The Hatchet Murders (Italian: Profondo Rosso), 1975. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring David Hemmings, Gabriele Lavia, Daria Nicolodi, Macha Meril, Glauco Mauri and Clara Calamai. SYNOPSIS: A music teacher investigates a series of brutal murders by a mysterious, hatchet-wielding psychopath. After making his name domestically with the “animal trilogy” of The Bird […]