Justice (a.k.a. Seeking Justice), 2011. Directed by Roger Donaldson. Staring Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Jennifer Carpenter, Guy Pearce, IronE Singleton and Harold Perrineau. SYNOPSIS: When his wife is assaulted, a husband seeks help from a vigilante group in order to get revenge. Nicolas Cage has a tendency to star in a lot of very underwhelming […]

What’s Your Number?, 2011. Directed by Mark Mylod. Starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans. SYNOPSIS: After losing her job, a young woman decides to track down all of her past relationships to see if one might have been her true love. Anna Faris is known for being funny but her movies tend not to reflect […]

Fright Night, 2011. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, David Tennant, Toni Collette, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Imogen Poots and Dave Franco. SYNOPSIS: A high school student comes to suspect that his next-door neighbor is a vampire. Fright Night follows Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), a down-to-earth high schooler who’s just trying to fit in […]

Back in May of 2010 it was revealed that Transformers director Michael Bay was looking to bring another classic children’s property to the big screen, landing the feature film rights to those heroes in a half-shell, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, via his production company Platinum Dunes. Now comes word from Variety that Bay and […]

Final Destination 5, 2011. Directed by Steven Quale. Starring Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, David Koechnerand Tony Todd. SYNOPSIS: A group of co-workers face a race against time to escape Death’s sinister agenda after they survive a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. For the last 11 years we’ve watched people get sliced, decapitated, […]

While Stephen Sommers’ G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra left a lot of moviegoers cold with its release back in 2009, if the trailer for director Jon M. Chu’s follow-up, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, is anything to go by, it looks as if fans could be shouting ‘Yo Joe!’ from the rooftops when the sequel arrives […]

Warrior, 2011. Directed by Gavin O’Connor. Starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Morrison and Nick Nolte. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers find themselves on a collision course in the biggest ‘winner takes all’ Mixed Martial Arts event in history. It would seem that about every year or so we get an inspirational sports movie. Some usually do […]

Chronicle, 2012. Directed by Josh Trank. Starring Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan and Alex Russell. SYNOPSIS: Three teens develop super powers after stumbling upon a mysterious cave, but they soon come to learn the downside of their amazing gift. What initially put me off Chronicle was the video camera footage. The whole film is shown […]

Carnage, 2011. Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. SYNOPSIS: Two sets of parents meet after their children are involved in a fight but their increasingly childish behaviour leads to chaos. Take four solid actors, (Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Cristoph Waltz and John C. Reily) a respected […]

Simon Moore selects his Five Essential Hollywood Remakes… Remakes are easy targets. Anyone who wants to make Tim Burton cry, for instance, need only whisper ‘Planet of the Apes’ in his pale, elfin ear. Even seeing Conan the Barbarian rehashed with an Easter Island statue in the title role gets film buffs nostalgic for Arnie’s […]