With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the previous entry here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE II – ATTACK OF THE CLONES I think the majority of people would agree that the prequel trilogy didn’t exactly get off to the best […]

With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the previous entry here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE VI – RETURN OF THE JEDI Now I must admit, I’m not the greatest fan of Return of the Jedi, but while much of Episode […]

With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the introduction to this series here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE The 20th Century Fox fanfare fades and a hush overcomes the cinema as a title card fills the […]

Almighty Thor, 2011. Directed by Christopher Ray. Starring Patricia Velasquez, Kevin Nash, Richard Grieco, Cody Deal and Jess Allen. SYNOPSIS: When Loki attacks Asgard and bests Odin in combat, the only thing standing in the way of Armageddon is the God of Thunder, Thor. Chances are that if you’ve ever cast your eye over the […]

Gary Collinson reviews Batman Live from the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle… Chances are that if you’ve seen any of the publicity material from Batman Live, you’ve probably already formed a good idea of what to expect from the big-budget arena show that kicked off its world-wide run a couple of weeks back in Manchester. Yes, […]

Iron Lord (Russian: Yaroslav. Tysyachu let nazad), 2010. Directed by Dmitri Korobkin. Starring Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Svetlana Chuikina, Aleksey Kravchenko, Viktor Verzhbitskiy and Valeriy Zolotukhin. SYNOPSIS: The Russian Prince Yaroslav struggles to maintain order in his kingdoms as barbarian hordes and slave-traders carve their way from one settlement to the next, threatening his power over the […]

Lake Mungo, 2008. Directed by Joel Anderson. Starring Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Steve Jodrell, Tamara Donnellan and Scott Terrill. SYNOPSIS: Following the death of their daughter, a family begin to experience strange and inexplicable events around their home that lead them to suspect they are being haunted by her spirit. Australian […]

The Funhouse, 1981. Directed by Tobe Hooper. Starring Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson, Cooper Huckabee, Largo Woodruff, Miles Chapin, Wayne Doba, William Finley and Sylvia Miles. SYNOPSIS: After an evening at a travelling fun fair, two teenage couples decide to spend the night stowed away inside ‘The Funhouse’, only to find themselves stalked by a grotesque […]

Desperate Measures, 2011. Directed by Steve Looker. Starring Stephen Lord, Ricci Harnett, Maxton G. Beesley and Steven Hillman. SYNOPSIS: A drink and drug addict is kidnapped and held on a remote farmhouse where his two captors put him through a brutal regime to get him clean. Based on a screenplay by producer Chris Green (who […]

The Superman Motion Picture Anthology, 1978-2006. Directed by Richard Donner, Richard Lester, Sidney J. Furie and Bryan Singer. Starring Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp, Susannah York, Richard Pryor, Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth. SYNOPSIS: The complete big-screen adventures of the Man of Steel. With […]