Martha Marcy May Marlene, 2011. Directed by Sean Durkin. Starring Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, and Hugh Dancy. SYNOPSIS: The damaged Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) is haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult. During the Sydney Film Festival last year I heard over and […]

Safe House, 2012. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga, Sam Shephard, Brendan Gleeson and Robert Patrick. SYNOPSIS: A junior CIA agent (Ryan Reynolds) gets caught up in an espionage scandal and is forced to go on the run with a high priority prisoner (Denzel Washington) after their safe house comes […]

Chronicle, 2012. Directed by Josh Trank. Starring Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan, Alex Russell and Michael Kelly. SYNOPSIS: Three high school friends – Andrew (Dane DeHaan), Steve (Michael B. Jordan), and Matt (Alex Russell) – stumble upon a mysterious underground cavern that holds an object with the capability to reward them with telepathic power. What […]

Commenting on the commentators with Simon Columb… Mike Gubbins writes for Moviescope about the Digital revolution [read the full article here]: “The ‘digital dividend’ was the great promise of the post-celluloid era. Lower costs in production, distribution and marketing would go with greater quality and choice of content; less spending, more income. The independent industry […]

Not content with returning to the Alien franchise for this summer’s sci-fi epic Prometheus, British filmmaker Ridley Scott is also busy making plans to revisit the Blade Runner universe and now, according to Twitch Film, star Harrison Ford has entered early negotiations to reprise his role as replicant hunter (and possible replicant) Rick Deckard. Back […]

Shame, 2011. Directed by Steve McQueen. Starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. SYNOPSIS: A sex addict’s life becomes increasingly more desperate when his sister moves in. Brandon Sullivan (Michael Fassbender) is a man unable to emotionally connect, desensitised to social interaction by a habitual stream of Chinese takeaways and Internet pornography. His laptop at home […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Eric Barba and Sean Faden about the making of David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… “David [Fincher] is great at knowing and describing what he wants,” states Digital Domain Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Barba who was rewarded with an Oscar for his reverse aging work on […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises… “Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes [The Dark Knight Rises] a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story,” says director Christopher Nolan on his plans for the third and final installment of his Batman movie […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of the Dark Knight had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Having produced four Batman movies in the space of eight years, Warner Bros. found their lucrative feature film series lying in tatters following the disastrous release of the Joel Schumacher-directed sequel Batman […]

Trevor Hogg reviews Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen by Gary Collinson… Originally, a three-part feature posted by his own film review site Flickering Myth, Gary Collinson has expanded his exploration of the various small and big screen appearances of The Dark Knight into a book. The 256-page publication is divided […]