A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, 2012. Directed by Roman Coppola. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Patricia Arquette, Katheryn Winnick, Aubrey Plaza, Dermot Mulroney and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. SYNOPSIS: A 1970s graphic designer is thrown into psychological turmoil when his girlfriend breaks up with him. Upon discovering compromising pictures of Charles Swan III (Charlie Sheen) […]

Recently the Internet was abuzz when Roman Coppola mentioned he had planned to do a comic book movie with his cousin Nicolas Cage (The Rock) portraying Doctor Strange.  I brought up the subject while talking to the writer-director about his latest movie A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012). “Nowadays it’s over […]

Dane DeHaan (Chronicle, Lawless) is set to star in the first film from the newly relaunched marketing and distribution company Picturehouse. Metallica: Through The Never, written and directed by Nimrod Antal (Predators), will feature the rock band and focus on DeHaan as a member of their crew. He is sent on an urgent mission while […]

Trevor Hogg chats with film editor William Goldenberg about working with Ben Affleck and the challenges of assembling Argo… “Ben [Affleck] was a much more sophisticated director on Argo [2012] than he was on Gone Baby Gone [2007],” observes William Goldenberg who assembled the directorial debut as well as the third effort from the Hollywood […]

Nowhere to Go, 1958. Directed by Seth Holt.Starring George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Harry H. Corbett and Lionel Jeffries. SYNOPSIS: After breaking out of prison, a thief and conman attempts to flee the country only to end up on the run in the Welsh countryside. Don’t expect to sympathise with a man like Paul […]

360, 2011. Directed by Fernando Meirelles.Starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Ben Foster, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: An international look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in physical relationships, that ultimately intersect and interact. . 360 is a drama of ambitious scope, that skips through themes […]

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy, 2011 Directed by Rob Heydon. Starring Adam Sinclair, Kristin Kreuk, Billy Boyd, Carlo Rota, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Natalie Brown, Olivia Andrup,  Stephen McHattie, Dean McDermott and Colin Mochrie. SYNOPSIS: A drug runner discovers true love and a whole lot of trouble as he attempts to become a dealer of ecstasy pills. The movie opens with Lloyd Buist (Adam Sinclair) narrating about the […]

Lincoln, 2012 Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Tommy Lee Jones, Jackie Earle Haley, John Hawkes, Bruce McGill and Tim Blake Nelson. SYNOPSIS: President Abraham Lincoln attempts to amend the American Constitution to abolish slavery before the Civil War comes to an end. Long in development, Steven Spielberg finally brings his Abraham Lincoln […]

Trevor Hogg chats with filmmaker Rob Heydon about his feature length debut along with actors Adam Sinclair and Billy Boyd… Irvine Welsh and Rob Heydon “After seeing the film Trainspotting [1996] and The Acid House [1998] in cinemas in Canada with a Scottish writer friend, Paul McCafferty who eventually co-wrote the screenplay for Ecstasy [2011],” […]

Pitch Perfect, 2012. Directed by Jason Moore.Starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Skylar Astin, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Ester Dean, Ben Platt, and Adam DeVine. SYNOPSIS: A feisty coed joins a collegiate a cappella group and upgrades their song selection for the 21st century during the run-up to a major competition. When I saw the initial […]