Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: Never one to take a fair, even-handed approach to those untrustworthy thieving gypsy types (my entire experience based of course upon Guy Ritchie films […]

Another Earth, 2011. Directed by Mike Cahill. Starring Brit Marling and William Mapother. SYNOPSIS: One night people start to spot what to all intents and purposes it looks to be a carbon copy of Earth. Aspiring Physicist Rhoda Williams (played by co-writer Brit Marling) hears this on the radio whilst driving home drunk from a […]

To most, John Madden will always be the director of such period classics as Mrs Brown and Shakespeare in Love. Oscar-nominated for Best Director on the latter, he steered the film to a staggering 13 Academy Award nominations and seven wins, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Gwyneth Paltrow and Best Actress in a Supporting […]

Anghus Houvouras selects his five most disappointing films of all time…  With this week’s 3D re-release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, it feels like a good time to look back at some of the biggest disappointments ever to hit cinemas. The films that we waited years for, and the ones that […]

Perfect Sense, 2011. Directed by David Mackenzie. Starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane and Ewen Bremner. SYNOPSIS: A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic sweeps the globe. The first thing to go is our sense of smell. Then we start to cry uncontrollably. Then an insatiable hunger as […]

Variety have announced that Lionsgate Entertainment has started development on a low-budget remake of American Psycho, the screen adaptation of author Bret Easton Ellis controversial 1991 novel, which first graced the screen courtesy of director Mary Harron just eleven years ago. According to the report, the project is yet to receive the official green light, […]

More than ten of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s novels and short stories have been adapted into films, including Blade Runner, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. Now another of his stories, Now Wait for Last Year, has been optioned by Lila 9th and Electric Shepherd Productions, with Ted Kupper adapting. Published in 1966, the […]

Arrow star Stephen Amell has taken to Twitter to release the first official images of his character Oliver Queen alongside the Black Canary, played by cast newcomer Caity Lotz, who we caught a glimpse of during the season two premiere. Sadly, no fishnets… Black Canary is expected to make her first appearance proper in the […]

American author Tom Clancy has passed away aged 66 after a brief illness, it has been announced today. Best known for creating the character of CIA analyst Jack Ryan, Clancy enjoyed a hugely successful career, penning 17 New York Times Bestsellers, and was the co-founder of Red Storm Entertainment, the video game company behind bestselling […]

We’re still waiting on word from Harrison Ford about whether he’s open to reprising the role of Han Solo for Star Wars: Episode VII, but the space pirate isn’t the only character from Ford’s back catalogue who could potentially return to the screen some thirty-odd years after his last appearance. Since it was announced in […]