Joss Whedon has pretty much built his career around strong female characters (see Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse et al) and now – as he prepares to turn his attention to The Avengers’ Black Widow – the director has given USA Today (via Vulture) a detailed account of how he thinks a showdown between […]

We’ve known for the past couple of years that Harrison Ford will be dusting off the fedora once again as director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas attempt to atone for 2008’s underwhelming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with a fifth outing for everyone’s favourite archaeologist. Although development appears to […]

Dream House, 2011. Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts and Elias Koteas. SYNOPSIS: A couple discover that a brutal crime was committed against the former residents of their idyllic new home. Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz are Hollywood’s latest power couple. Together they are more than capable of flying the […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Mark Cousins writes for Sight and Sound this month (S&S, May 2012) about the reaction the audience had towards his epic The Story of Film: An Odyssey. I particularly found the following paragraph interesting: “Slightly more problematic has been IMDb’s billing of The Story of Film as a […]

Sensation, 2010. Written and Directed by Tom Hall. Starring Domhnall Gleeson and Luanne Gordon. SYNOPSIS: Following the death of his father, a young Irishman puts his inheritance to use by hooking up with a Kiwi call girl. The opening minutes of Sensation are not a stimulating thrill ride or a feast for the senses. In […]

Luke Graham reviews Ricky Gervais’ comedy drama Derek, which aired last on Channel 4… The pilot for Ricky Gervais’ new show debuted last night. It was certainly an intriguing beast, judging from the responses on Twitter. Some were very negative, seemingly enraged that it wasn’t “funny enough,” to the more positive, appreciating it for its […]

Oliver Davis reviews the fourth episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… Garden of Bones. Directed by David Petrarca. Written by Vanessa Taylor. There was no time for The Wall this week, not even in the opening credits. The Westeros map has become rather crammed as of late, so much so that we skipped past […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… We’re a quarter of a way through the series and so far we’ve learned that shouting gets you nowhere, bullying punters gets you nowhere and people will buy any old tat so long as it has a Union Jack on it. But by the end […]

Oliver Davis reviews the second episode of Game of Thrones Season Two… “That’s not the way to get a-head in life.” -Austin Powers I’m unsure what it was about Episode 1, but it left me pretty underwhelmed. Here was I, expecting to be screwed over and played with by the giant, tormenting cat HBO embodies, […]

The Price of Kings: Yasser Arafat, 2012. Directed by Richard Symons. SYNOPSIS: Revealing interviews and archive footage are used to tell the story of Yasser Arafat, the controversial Palestinian leader. This is the first of twelve documentaries intending to show the lives of some of the world’s most influential leaders. Considering one of my last […]