The Collector, 2009. Directed by Marcus Dunstan. Starring Josh Stewart, Michael Reilly Burke, Andrea Roth, Karley Scott Collins and Juan Fernández. SYNOPSIS: An ex-con aims to repay a debt to his ex-wife by robbing his new employer’s country home only to discover a second criminal known as “The Collector” has imprisoned the family and rigged […]

Luke Owen examines the classic horror franchise Friday the 13th in the first of a two-part feature… Friday The 13th came at the right time in American cinema. The box office success of Halloween was to kick start a slasher horror revolution that consumed the 1980s and Friday the 13th was one of the first […]

Luke Owen with his thoughts on the low budget horror debut… Some people have accused me in the past of having double standards. I have criticised films such as Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for having a terrible story structure, dreadful dialogue and awful acting. Yet I can sit and watch Happy Birthday to Me, […]

Seconds Apart, 2011. Directed by Antonio Negret. Starring Orlando Jones, Edmund Entin and Gary Entin. SYNOPSIS: Damned from the moments of their births, two brothers possess a gruesome talent for telekinesis – a power they use in the most horrific ways imaginable. If cinema history has taught us anything, it’s that twins are scary as […]

Luke Owen charts the ‘High School Musical’ trilogy… No wait! Come back! Alright, so this may hardly be “one of the greatest trilogies of all time”, however I once again refer to my original post and my rules: 1. It has to be a trilogy And like it or not, this is a trilogy of […]

Luke Owen examines the classic horror franchise Friday the 13th in the second of a two-part feature… read part one here. While the first half of the Friday series was a bit hit (parts 1, 2 & 4) and miss (parts 3 & 5), the latter half was more cut and dry in the miss […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Marvel Studios are gearing up to deliver their second superhero movie of 2011 (and the fifth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) as Chris Evans steps into the role of Super Soldier Steve Rogers for Joe Johnston’s World War II-set […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Warner Bros. and Marvel are unlikely to have much of a showing at the San Diego Comic-Con this year (if at all), but both did make an appearance at the Licensing International Expo this past week. Highlights included the unveiling […]

Our weekly round-up of all the talking points from the world of movie superheroes… With Green Lantern arriving this coming week Warner Bros. have really ramped up the publicity with eight new clips from the film, in addition to a host of video interviews featuring director Martin Campbell, screenwriter Greg Berlanti, producers Geoff Johns and […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With the recent box office disappointment of Green Lantern (which currently stands on a world-wide gross of just $125m), TheWrap posted an article this past week looking at reasons why 2011’s ‘superhero summer’ has been ‘a bust’. Now, I’m not […]