Despicable Me, 2010. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. Featuring the voice talents of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand and Julie Andrews. SYNOPSIS: Evil supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) finds out he’s not the number one villain anymore and has been replaced by a younger, arrogant teen named Vector (Jason Segel). Determined the return […]

With his latest film The Social Network in cinemas this month, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director David Fincher in the second of a three part feature… read part one here. After the production turmoil associated with his directorial debut Alien 3 (1992), American moviemaker David Fincher had given up on the idea of […]

A Single Man, 2009. Directed by Tom Ford. Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode. SYNOPSIS: After the death of his long-time companion, a middle-aged college professor decides to kill himself and goes about getting his affairs in order in what would otherwise be a normal day. I’ve seen A Single Man […]

Withnail & I, 1987. Directed by Bruce Robinson. Starring Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown. SYNOPSIS: Two unemployed and down-on-their-luck actors take a holiday in the countryside. Trapped inside a dank, empty cabin with an endless downpour of heavy rain, the two men form a complicated bond fuelled by booze, disaster, […]

American: The Bill Hicks Story, 2009. Directed by Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas. SYNOPSIS: Photo-animated documentary on the life of comedian’s comedian Bill Hicks. Now here’s an odd fish. A film about the life of Bill Hicks that’s roughly half as vitriolic, hardly anywhere near as controversial, and barely a fraction as funny as the […]

Cherokee Summer selects her Five Essential Anime Movies… I must confess that once (and I emphasis on the ‘once’) I was an anime nerd. A big one. I’d watch anything and everything to do with anime, read tons of manga, became obsessed with the Japanese culture, and attended yearly conventions to meet like-minded people who […]

The Real Band of Brothers (US: Brothers in Arms: True Stories of the 101st Airborne) Directed by Edward Feuerherd. SYNOPSIS: “It’s fifteen minutes past midnight on June 6th 1944. A C-47 Dakota is humming over the skies of Nazi-occupied France. Perched at the aircraft’s open door is Captain Frank Lillyman. He gives the signal and […]

The Other Guys, 2010. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Steve Coogan and Michael Keaton. SYNOPSIS: Two mis-matched New York City police detectives take on an innocuous-looking case and have to step up when it begins to unravel and reveals the city’s biggest crime yet. […]

Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Dolph Lundgren films… From duking it out with Sly Stallone, to being Master Of The Universe, to taking on intergalactic drug dealers (yes… really!) or tearing up the desert in a Ferrari, Dolph Lundgren has pretty much done it all in the action world. He’s fired an array of […]

Zodiac, 2007. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas and Dermot Mulroney. SYNOPSIS: A San Francisco cartoonist becomes obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer, a murderer with seemingly random targets who sends cryptic codes and threats to the city’s police and […]