Gary Collinson with an alternative theory on the final scene of The Dark Knight Rises… “The final scene of The Dark Knight Rises is exactly [the] scene we talked about [when Christopher Nolan and I started the trilogy with Batman Begins],” stated David S. Goyer in a recent interview with Empire Magazine (via Screen Rant). […]
Movie Review – The Avengers (2012)
The Avengers (a.k.a. Avengers Assemble), 2012. Written and Directed by Joss Whedon. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul Bettany. SYNOPSIS: When the world comes under threat, S.H.I.E.L.D. assembles a team consisting of […]
Blu-ray Review – The Thing (2011)
The Thing, 2011. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen. SYNOPSIS: A group of scientists at a remote Antarctic research station stumble upon a frozen alien spacecraft and face a fight for survival after taking its inhabitant back to their base camp. […]
DVD Review – Raid on Entebbe (1977)
Raid on Entebbe, 1977. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Yaphet Kotto, Jack Warden, Horst Buchholz, John Saxon, Sylvia Sidney, Robert Loggia and James Woods. SYNOPSIS: When a hijacked plane is diverted to Uganda’s Entebbe Airport with over a hundred Israeli passengers on board, the Israeli government authorises a top-secret […]
Wonder Women: A conversation with filmmaker Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Gary Collinson chats with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, director of the upcoming documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines… “I was reading a New York Times article that introduced Gail Simone as Wonder Woman’s first female writer EVER. Despite the fact that she was this incredible feminist symbol, she was stuck, like a lot of […]
Movie Review – John Carter (2012)
John Carter, 2012. Directed by Andrew Stanton. Starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West, Thomas Haden Church, James Purefoy and Bryan Cranston. SYNOPSIS: Civil War veteran John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is transported to the war-torn planet of Mars and becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions, […]
DVD Review – Miss Bala (2011)
Miss Bala, 2011. Directed by Gerardo Naranjo. Starring Stephanie Sigman, Noe Hernandez, Irene Azuela, Miguel Couturier, Gabriel Heads, Jose Yenque and James Russo. SYNOPSIS: An aspiring beauty queen is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel and quickly finds herself sucked into the vicious world of South American drug trafficking. Films about the South American drug […]
Movie Review – Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, 2012. Directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Starring Nicolas Cage, Violante Placido, Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba, Johnny Whitworth, Fergus Riordan and Christopher Lambert. SYNOPSIS: Hiding out in Eastern Europe, Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) is forced to take on the mantle of Ghost Rider once more to protect a young […]
Five Essential… Found Footage Films
Gary Collinson presents his five essential found footage films… Given the success of Oren Peli’s self-financed debut Paranormal Activity a few years back, it was inevitable that filmmakers would seek to capitalise on this with a string of new entries in the ‘found footage’ genre. Requiring only modest budgets, and often without star names of […]
Movie Review – Red Kingdom Rising (2012)
Red Kingdom Rising, 2012. Directed by Navin Dev. Starring Emily Stride, Silvana Maimone, David Caron and Etalia Turnbull. SYNOPSIS: A troubled young woman must come to terms with her horrific past when she is propelled through dreams into the terrifying fairy tale world of the Red Kingdom, where she encounters figures reminiscent of her memories […]
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