Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Hollywood Remakes… Given the current Hollywood trend of shunning creativity and originality in favour of a quick cash-in based on name recognition, the remake (reboot, reimagining, rehash, or whatever you’d like to call it) has firmly cemented its place as the order of the day. Although the number of […]

In the second part of a series of articles examining the various screen incarnations of George Lucas’ Star Wars saga, we focus on the Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back… Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, 1980. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams […]

Results of the 82nd annual Academy Awards… Kathryn Bigelow made history last night as she became the first woman to receive the prestigious Best Director Oscar for her work on the 2009 Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker, beating out ex-husband James Cameron who was nominated in the same category for box office juggernaut Avatar. […]

With upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar set to end twelve years of cinema exile for James Cameron, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of the influential Hollywood filmmaker in the third of a three part feature… read part one and two. “I started thinking about the film in two stages,” explained James Cameron on how he approached […]

With upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar set to end twelve years of cinema exile for James Cameron, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of the influential Hollywood filmmaker in the second of a three part feature… read part one here. Determined to avoid the fiasco he encountered with Piranha II: The Spawning, James Cameron set about making […]

With his latest offering Inception hitting cinemas this week, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan in the third of a three part feature… read parts one and two. Finding the theme for his second film involving The Caped Crusader was not difficult for British filmmaker Christopher Nolan. “At the end of […]

Cracks, 2009. Directed by Jordan Scott. Starring Eva Green, Juno Temple, Maria Valverde and Imogen Poots. SYNOPSIS: A diving team of adolescent girls at a boarding school adore their inspirational teacher, Miss G (Eva Green), whose favourite is team captain, Di (Juno Temple). But when an aristocratic new girl arrives, focuses shift, and tensions begin, […]

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back, Gary Collinson selects his five essential movie sequels that improve on the original… These days if a film isn’t a remake, then there’s a pretty good chance it’s going to be a sequel. In fact, it seems to have become […]

Buried, 2010. Directed by Rodrigo Cortés. Starring Ryan Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds), an American contractor working in Iraq, wakes to find himself buried alive inside a wooden coffin, somewhere in the desert. With only a mobile phone and a lighter, he must work out why he has been buried and more importantly, how […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the second of a five part feature… read part one here. In an effort to gain access to their son, Ila Fae Holiday and Robert Dent kidnapped a patrolman causing them to be pursued by a massive Texan police convoy; the 1969 incident […]