1001 Grams, 2014. Directed by Bent Hamer. Starring Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Stein Winge, Hildegun Riise, Per Christian Ellefsen, Peter Hudson, Dinara Droukarova, Christian Erickson, Didier Flamand, and Magne Håvard Brekke. SYNOPSIS: A recently divorced, work-obsessed lab technician finds herself encountering a whole new world of experience when she attends an important scientific conference in Paris. […]

Big Game, 2014. Directed by Jalmari Helander. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Mehmet Kurtulus, Victor Garber, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, and Jim Broadbent. SYNOPSIS: Trapped in the wilderness after Air Force One is forced down by a terrorist attack, the President of the United States must rely on the survival skills of a 13-year-old […]

The Price We Pay (La Face cachée de l’impôt), 2014. Directed by Harold Crooks. SYNOPSIS: The  documentary explores the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens. Corporations like individuals try to avoid paying taxes […]

Anthony Hodgson on his three greatest book to movie adaptations… American Psycho Author, Bret Easton Ellis. Screenplay, Mary Harron & Guinevere Turner. Upon its original publication in 1991, American Psycho was marred by controversy, and it’s no surprise considering one of the chapters is called ‘Killing Child at Zoo’, which was sensibly not included in […]

Spoiler alert! According to the Wall Street Journal, legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki will receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in November. This will mark the second Oscar on Miyazaki’s mantle, the first of which was for his 2001 film Spirited Away, which took home […]

After a huge build up, this week sees the release of the first issue of Marvel’s four-part miniseries Death of Wolverine, which is set to kill off the fan favourite X-Man. Of course, death means very little in the world of comic books, but according to writer Charles Soule, there are currently no plans to […]

A few days ago we reported that after a long negotiation process, Joaquin Phoenix was finalizing his talks with Marvel Studios to take the lead role in the upcoming Doctor Strange film. However, new reports have surfaced suggesting that Phoenix may in fact be reluctant to sign a Marvel contract and may back out of talks altogether. […]

Night Moves, 2013. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat, Logan Miller, Kai Lennox, Katherine Waterston and James LeGros. SYNOPSIS: Three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam. A dam in the Pacific Northwest is targeted to be blown up […]

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about producer Joel Silver’s planned remake of Escape from New York. Back in March of 2013 when the movie was first announced, Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) and Jason Statham (The Expendables) were linked to the role of Snake Plissken, portrayed of course by Kurt Russell […]

Anghus Houvouras reviews the first season of BoJack Horseman… Netflix has created such an interesting paradigm. Binge watching has become everyone’s favorite buzz phrase. Releasing an entire season of a show all at once used to seem daunting (to me anyway). Television had always been a weekly medium. You watch a variety of hours or […]