Hollywood legend Tony Curtis has passed away aged 85 after suffering cardiac arrest at his Nevada home late last night, as confirmed this morning by representatives of his daughter Jamie Lee Curtis. Born in New York in 1925, Curtis served in the United States Navy during WWII before studying acting at New York’s Dramatic Workshop […]

Charlie St. Cloud, 2010. Directed by Burr Steers. Starring Zac Efron, Amanda Crew, Charlie Tahan and Augustus Prew. SYNOPSIS: Hours after graduating from High School, Charlie St Cloud (Zac Efron) loses his younger brother, Sam (Charlie Tahan), in a car accident. Five years later Charlie, still grief stricken, visits the ghost of his brother every […]

With his latest film The Social Network hitting cinemas this October, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director David Fincher in the first of a three part feature… Watching a behind the scenes documentary on the making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) was a life altering experience for the six year old […]

Jon Dudley examines the box office performance of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and asks, why has it not been a box office hit? Edgar Wright’s latest film, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, was made on a budget of around £38.5m [$60m], but as of today (28th Sept. 2010) has only accumulated a […]

Sad news today as the Los Angeles Times reports that film editor and longtime Quentin Tarantino collaborator Sally Menke was found dead in the early hours of this morning, aged 56. Menke had failed to return home from a hiking session in Los Angeles on Monday during an extreme heatwave, with early rumours pointing to […]

Brokeback Mountain, 2005. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini and Randy Quaid. SYNOPSIS: An epic American love story about a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. Dubbed at the time of release ‘The Gay […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of The Man of Steel had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Absent from the screen for almost two decades, The Man of Steel finally returned to banish the ghost of 1987’s The Quest For Peace (and part III, for that matter) in […]

The Be All and End All, 2010. Directed by Bruce Webb. Starring Josh Bolt, Eugene Byrne and Liza Tarbuck. SYNOPSIS: A teenager suffering from a fatal heart condition has one last wish – to lose his virginity. The Be All and End All is the first feature film by director Bruce Webb. Webb has said […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “I admired [Stanley] Kubrick for the sheer variety of his films,” stated Steven Spielberg of the reclusive and revered American filmmaker. “Paths of Glory [1957] was the best antiwar […]