The Disappearance of Alice Creed, 2010. Written and Directed by J Blakeson. Starring Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: Two guys kidnap Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton) and demand two million dollars from her father. However things aren’t quite what they seem and everything starts to fall apart. In essence this is a fairly […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the fourth of a five part feature… read parts one, two and three. “I certainly do not make animated films just so they will be popular with children,” stated Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. “I try to create what I wanted to see […]

The Brothers Bloom, 2008 [Only now receiving a UK cinema release]. Written and Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi. SYNOPSIS: Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (Adrien Brody) have been con-artists since children. Bloom wants to quit but Stephen persuades him to take part in one last con. […]

The Brothers Bloom, 2008. Written and Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi. SYNOPSIS: Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Brick), this film is about two brothers, Stephen (Mark Ruffalo) and Bloom (Adrien Brody), who are some of the best con men in the world. But Bloom wants […]

Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy, 1968. Directed by Roger Vadim. Starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law and Anita Pallenberg. SYNOPSIS: In the distant future a beautiful space-age heroine is tasked by the President of Earth with capturing an evil scientist who threatens universal peace. See films differently, say Volkswagen on their adverts to promote their […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the third of a five part feature… read part one and part two. “At Studio Ghibli we currently conduct what we call “product study meetings,” where we select a scenario and all read it,” stated Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in reference to the […]

The Losers, 2010. Directed by Sylvain White. Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada and Jason Patric. SYNOPSIS: In the Bolivian jungle, a group of Special Ops soldiers plan an air strike on a village targeted by the US military. Finding a large amount of children in the […]

Luke Owen examines the classic horror franchise Friday the 13th in the first of a two-part feature… Friday The 13th came at the right time in American cinema. The box office success of Halloween was to kick start a slasher horror revolution that consumed the 1980s and Friday the 13th was one of the first […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki in the second of a five part feature… read part one here. “I was frankly in a dilemma after my work on From the Apennines to the Andes [1976] ended,” stated Japanese anime artist Hayao Miyazaki who found himself at a career crossroad. “I […]

Hollywood legend Dennis Hopper has died at his home in California earlier today from complications of prostate cancer, aged 74. Hopper – who had battled the illness for almost a year and had recently received a long-overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – enjoyed a career that spanned over half a century. He […]