Goddess, 2013. Directed by Mark Lamprell. Starring Laura Michelle Kelly, Ronan Keating, Magda Szubanski, Dustin Clare  and Hugo Johnstone-Burt. SYNOPSIS: A bored and listless mother of twin boys gets a webcam from her husband, so they can keep in touch whilst he’s at work. She starts to sing and dance on camera and becomes an […]

According to THR, George Clooney has set his sights on his next project, a drug smuggling film called Coronado High. Clooney will produce the film along with Grant Heslov (The Monuments Men) and David Klawans (Argo). Grey’s Anatomy and The West Wing writer Debora Cahn will pen the screenplay, which is an adaptation of a Atavist article by Joshua […]

Back in January Quentin Tarantino was all set to follow up Django Unchained with another Western – that is until Gawker posted a leaked version of the script for The Hateful Eight online, with Quentin then deciding to take his ball home and put the brakes on the film. A few months later at Cannes, […]

Haunter, 2013. Directed by Vincenzo Natali. Starring Abigail Breslin, Sarah Manninen, David Hewlett, Stephen McHattie, Peter DaCunha, Michelle Nolden, Eleanor Zichy and Peter Outerbridge. SYNOPSIS: The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate. In a genre […]

The Driver, 1978. Written and Directed by Walter Hill. Starring Ryan O’Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani and Ronee Blakley. SYNOPSIS: The Driver is the cat and mouse story of a professional wheelman (Ryan O’Neal) and the eccentric cop (Bruce Dern) who has become obsessed with putting his man behind bars. This was my first time […]

Vampire Academy, 2014 Directed by Mark Waters Starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry, Danila Kozlovsky, Gabriel Byrne, Dominic Sherwood, Olga Kurylenko, Sarah Hyland and Cameron Monaghan SYNOPSIS: Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, half human-half vampire, a guardian of the Moroi, peaceful, mortal vampires living discreetly within our world. Her calling is to protect the Moroi from bloodthirsty, […]

Under the Skin, 2013. Directed by Jonathan Glazer. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Jessica Mance, Krystof Hádek, Scott Dymond, and Michael Moreland. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. Events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery. Opening on an aligning of planetary activity, darkness shimmering against the […]

In the latest edition of The Dusty VHS Corner, Tom Jolliffe digs out a trio of actioners from PM Entertainment… Between 1989 and 2002, PM Entertainment was a strong force in the straight to video action arena. Founded by directors Joseph Merhi and Richard Pepin, they set about trying to deliver big thrills on low […]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, 2014. Diirected by Matt Reeves. Starring Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, Judy Greer, Enrique Murciano, Kirk Acevedo and Kodi Smit-McPhee. SYNOPSIS: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus […]

According to Deadline, the director of last year’s critically acclaimed human survival film All Is Lost is heading back to sea, and will helm a film about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig tragedy. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 men and injured 17 others. The ensuing gush of oil […]