The Dark Knight Rises, 2012. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. SYNOPSIS: Eight years after taking the blame for Harvey Dent’s crimes, Batman has disappeared and his alter-ego Bruce Wayne now lives as a recluse. However, when Gotham comes under threat […]

Gary Collinson on the Justice League and a shared DC Cinematic Universe… It’s hardly surprising given the $1.45 billion box-office haul of The Avengers, but shared universes are all the rage at the moment. Rival movie studios have watched on with envy as Marvel Studios carefully crafted their Cinematic Universe with Iron Man, The Incredible […]

Absentia, 2011. Written and Directed by Mike Flanagan. Starring Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Dave Levine, Morgan Peter Brown, Justin Gordon, James Flanagan and Doug Jones. SYNOPSIS: A woman and her sister come to suspect that a pedestrian tunnel could be linked to a series of neighborhood disappearances, including that of her own husband seven years […]

Rear Window, 1954. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. SYNOPSIS: Confined to his apartment after suffering a broken leg, a voyeuristic magazine photographer comes to suspect that his neighbour may have murdered his wife. The first of four consecutive collaborations between Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter John Michael […]

Red Dog, 2011. Directed by Kriv Stenders. Starring Koko, Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Noah Taylor, John Batchelor, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Loene Carmen and Luke Ford. SYNOPSIS: The remarkable story of the legendary Red Dog and the small mining community of Dampier, Western Australia. Last year, as canine sensation Uggie carved a path to international superstardom in […]

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). […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]