Horror icon Ingrid Pitt had passed away today aged 73 after collapsing in London last week. Born Ingoushka Petrov in Poland in 1937, Pitt was imprisoned in a concentration camp during World War II and began her acting career on stage in East Germany in the 1950s. She made her screen debut with a minor […]

Jackass 3D, 2010. Directed by Jeff Tremaine. Starring Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn, Steve-O, Jason ‘Wee Man’ Acuña, Preston Lacy, Chris Pontius and Ehren McGhehey. SYNOPSIS: The Jackass crew return for the third installment of their TV show spin-off. Here’s how I expected Jackass 3D to play out: Annoying American Moron 1: You ready […]

Burke and Hare, 2010. Directed by John Landis. Starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Jessica Hynes, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Bailey, Georgia King, Tim Curry and Christopher Lee. SYNOPSIS: A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who discover a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. Edinburgh, 1828. Public hangings are […]

DJ Haza dreams of reality-free TV in more more “Frustrated Ramblings Of An Aspiring Filmmaker”… After 12 series, various celebrity versions, Big Brother’s Big Mouth, Big Brother’s Little Brother, millions of Facebook status’ and it spanning 70 countries worldwide – it’s finally over. Big Brother finally bit the dust in the UK this year and […]

The Next Three Days, 2010. Directed by Paul Haggis. Starring Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Nesson, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde, Lennie James, Aisha Hinds, Daniel Stern, RZA and Jason Beghe. SYNOPSIS: After his wife Lara is arrested for a murder she claims she didn’t commit, John Brennan (Russell Crowe) sets about trying to prove her […]

Liam Trim on recent John Landis comedy Burke and Hare and Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller Shutter Island… Burke and Hare, 2010. Directed by John Landis. Starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher and Tom Wilkinson. A week ago today I saw Burke and Hare at the cinema. Now ordinarily I wouldn’t dream of waiting an […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the third of a five-part feature… read parts one and two. “The success of The Godfather [1972] went to my head like a rush of perfume. I thought I couldn’t do anything wrong,” admitted Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola who decided to produce […]

Ricky Gervais Live IV – Science SYNOPSIS: “Set on a stage designed to look like Frankenstein’s castle laboratory, the show brings together thought provoking rants and tongue in cheek political incorrectness about subjects as diverse as religion, racism and obesity.” Science is the fourth stand-up DVD from uber-successful comedian Ricky Gervais and was recorded back […]

Monsters, 2010. Written and Directed by Gareth Edwards. Starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able. SYNOPSIS: After discovering the possibility of alien life in our solar system, NASA launches a space probe which crash lands in Mexico, creating an ‘infected zone’. Six years later a cynical photojournalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the […]

Legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis has passed away today aged 91. Born in Italy in 1919, Laurentiis served in World War II before establishing himself as a producer with Italian offerings such as Giuseppe De Santis’ 1949 classic Bitter Rice and later efforts such as Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954) – which won the […]