An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, 2012. Written and Directed by Terence Nance. Starring Terence Nance, Namik Minter and Talibah Lateefah Newman. SYNOPSIS: A man is stood up by a mystery woman, prompting an analysis of platonic and romantic love. Before there was An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, there was a shorter film entitled How Would […]

For Ellen, 2012. Written and Directed by So Yong Kim. Starring Paul Dano, Jon Heder and Shaylena Mandigo. SYNOPSIS: A struggling musician attempts to get joint custody of his six year old daughter. The film opens at a crossroads. A literal crossroads. Joby Taylor (Paul Dano), the lead singer of a fictional rock band, looks […]

Simon Moore reviews the season finale of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… It’d be fair to say Napoleon Dynamite has come a long way since our re-introduction to his lanky, bear-slippered, underpantsed self in that first title sequence six weeks ago. Our boy has developed some skills, romanced his fair share of ladies, even dallied […]

Luke Owen on last night’s episode of The Apprentice 2012… The second week of The Apprentice is a lot like the second day in the office of your new job. Faces sort of look familiar but you can only remember a handful of names and on top of that, there are some faces that you […]

It’s fairly common knowledge that filmmaker James Cameron spent many a year attached to a movie adaptation of Marvel’s Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but now acclaimed comic book writer Chris Claremont has revealed how close Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment were to developing an X-Men feature film, which would have been produced by Cameron and directed by his […]

Luke Owen discusses last night’s opening episode of The Apprentice 2012… It’s that time again. Over the next 12 weeks, 16 “top business people” will be shouting over each other, making silly business decisions and saying utterly stupid things in order to become Lord Sugar’s brand new Apprentice business partner. It’s always hard to judge […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… Mother’s Day (or Mothering Sunday, according to my traditionalist Dad) is when we celebrate the unsung heroes of society. Mothers are the underappreciated glue holding together such fundamentals of everyday life as law, order and excessive cleanliness. There is no higher calling than motherhood. Political […]

Taking inspiration from the Oscar-nominated Moneyball, here’s a look at this evening’s 84th Annual Academy Awards, taking into account various statistical evidence. Sound boring? Well, yeah. There isn’t much below to dispute that. i.e. this was written after a large Indian takeaway. 1. Prosthetics Increase Prospects. Nicole Kidman won Best Actress with a thinned nose […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Writer and podcaster for Slash Film, Dave Chen – on his personal blog www.davechen.net – writes about the racist and ethnic stereotypes in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, upon the re-release of the film in 3D, in response to a podcaster who stated that, “I […]

Well, we first broke the news way back in December and now Idris Elba (The Wire, Thor, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance) has finally confirmed that he’s set to play former South African leader Nelson Mandela in a biopic based upon Mandela’s 1995 autobiographical book Long Walk to Freedom, with cameras set to roll on […]