The Innocents, 1961. Directed by Jack Claton. Starring Deborah Kerr, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens and Megs Jenkins. SYNOPSIS: A woman is employed to care for two children in a country mansion, but things aren’t quite as they seem. The ghost story is a peculiar breed of horror – it can be clumsily utilised to provide […]

Twice Round the Daffodils, 1962. Directed by Gerald Thomas. Starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. SYNOPSIS: A group of four male patients arrive at a sanatorium to be treated for tuberculosis. As they adjust to their new home, each one of them starts […]

TMNT, 2007. Directed by Kevin Munroe. Featuring the voice talents of James Arnold Taylor, Nolan North, Mitchell Whitfield, Mikey Kelley, Mako, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Chris Evans. SYNOPSIS: The four turtles are back in this animated adventure that sees them pitted against vicious beasties and each other. It’s been over a decade since the turtles […]

Bong of the Dead, 2011. Written and Directed by Thomas Newman. Starring Simone Bailly, Mark Wynn and Jy Harris. SYNOPSIS: The world is in disarray as zombies have taken over, but stoner buddies Tommy and Edwin have figured out a way of benefiting from the apocalypse. I was umm-ing and ahh-ing about when I’d finally […]

Battleship, 2012. Directed by Peter Berg. Starring Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, Liam Neeson, Brooklyn Decker and Tadanobu Asano. SYNOPSIS: A fleet of battleships attempt to thwart the destructive goals of an amarda of extra-terrestrial origin. Despite the amount of negative press surrounding this movie in the run-up to its release, I actually found myself […]

Outcast of the Islands, 1951. Directed by Carol Reed. Starring Robert Morley, Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson and Wendy Hiller. SYNOPSIS: Escaping scandal in Makassar, a morally compromised man finds himself on a remote Indian Ocean trading outpost, where his malign influence soon spreads to all around him. The name Joseph Conrad might not immediately ring […]

The Cabin in the Woods, 2012. Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Jesse Williams, Anna Hutchison and Fran Kranz. SYNOPSIS: Five friends get much more than they bargained for during a break at a remote cabin in the woods. THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW. There are some film […]

28 Weeks Later, 2007. Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Starring Robert Carlyle, Catherine McCormack, Imogen Poots, Mackintosh Muggleton, Rose Byrne and Jeremy Renner. SYNOPSIS: Six months after the rage virus crippled England, an American military team enters the country to help re-establish the population. I’ve already addressed the terminology controversy in my review for 28 […]

Luke Owen attends the London press conference for The Muppets… When I went a press screening for The Muppets two weeks ago, I also had the pleasure of going to one of the most surreal yet amazing things I’ve ever attended. I went to a press conference with Kermit and Miss Piggy (and director James […]

Muppets fan Luke Owen weighs in on the debate over the ‘new voices’… Yesterday, I reviewed the newest movie from Muppet Studios, The Muppets. But one point kept coming up when I was talking about the film that I wanted to address here. There has been one big problem hanging over the Muppets, not just […]