Our weekly round-up of all the big talking points from the world of movie superheroes… As you’d expect with just days to go until the UK release of X-Men: First Class, the mutant marketing machine has gone into overdrive this past week and, judging by the critical reception so far, it seems as if Matthew […]

Our weekly round-up of all the talking points from the world of movie superheroes… Well, just when it was shaping up to be a quiet week in the land of cinematic superherodom what goes and happens? Warner Bros. deliver the first image of Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, that’s what! Things […]

Trevor Hogg chats with The Tree of Life visual effects supervisor Dan Glass… As part of Method Studios’ plan to expand its involvement in making visual effects for movies, Dan Glass was hired to be its Senior Creative Director; the decision paid immediate dividends for the Los Angeles-based VFX facility as Glass was presented with […]

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisors Dan Glass and Bryan Hirota about the creation of Terrence Malick’s latest, The Tree of Life… Considered by many to be an enigma because of his reclusive nature and the long gaps between his films, American director Terrence Malick returns to the big screen with The Tree of […]

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, 2009. Directed by Jack Perez (as Ace Hannah). Starring Deborah Gibson, Lorenzo Lamas, Vic Chao, Sean Lawlor and Jay Beyers. SYNOPSIS: When two enormous prehistoric creatures contend for supremacy of the sea, the California coast becomes the setting for a showdown that’s been centuries in the making. When you give […]

With a remake of the original A Nightmare in Elm Street currently in cinemas, Luke Owen looks back over the classic horror franchise… Freddy Krueger is one of the biggest horror icons in the world. Even people who have never sat down and watched a Nightmare movie know who Freddy Krueger is. He has featured […]

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 […]