Trevor Hogg explores the making of Michel Hazanavicius’ Best Picture contender, The Artist… “The first person I had to convince was me, and think, ‘Okay, even if everybody thinks it is undoable, I am going to try because I really want to do it’,” stated French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius who began developing The Artist (2011) […]

Red State, 2011. Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Kyle Gallner, Michael Angarano, Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman and Stephen Root. SYNOPSIS: Three boys (Michael Angarano, Kyle Gallner and Nicholas Braun) get more than they bargained when they answer a sex ad that leaves them drugged hostages of the Five Points Church, led by charismatic […]

In the second of a two-part feature (see part one here), Gary Collinson looks at 23 actors who could have found themselves uttering the iconic line, “The name’s Bond. James Bond…” (see part one here)… With Daniel Craig about to embark on his third outing as 007 alongside Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Naomie […]

After voicing his displeasure with Marvel Studios a couple of weeks back, Mickey Rourke has since elaborated on the problems he encountered on Iron Man 2 in an interview with Crave Online: “I explained to Justin Theroux, to the writer, and to Jon Favreau that I wanted to bring some other layers and colors, not […]

Our weekly round-up of all the big talking points from the world of movie superheroes… The big news is of course the release of Matthew Vaughn’s Cold War-era mutant prequel X-Men: First Class, which I have to say I found to be a little over-rated. Don’t get me wrong, it’s enjoyable, but in my opinion […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “I didn’t think of it as Hong Kong. I reacted to what Bill Monahan put together in the script; I liked the idea,” explained American filmmaker Martin Scorsese when […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the fourth of a five part feature… read parts one, two and three. “The first newspaper article Nick Pileggi showed me was about the police covering a domestic fight on a Las Vegas lawn one Sunday morning,” explained American filmmaker Martin Scorsese regarding […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the third of a five part feature… read parts one and two. When he was approached by Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who wanted to revise his signature role of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961), Martin Scorsese was […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the second of a five-part feature… read part one here. “It’s true that some films will involve me more than others,” admitted American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. “It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the […]