M, Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, 1931. Directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre and Otto Wernicke. SYNOPSIS: In early 1930s Berlin a child killer is on the loose. The police and the local gangsters both independently vow to track him down. Despite being quite a prolific director, Fritz Lang is a name associated primarily […]

The Searchers, 1956. Directed by John Ford. Starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond and Natalie Wood. SYNOPSIS: Returning to his brother’s family three years after the end of the civil war, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) is a bitter and resentful war veteran. Soon after his return, a Comanche attack his leaves his […]

The Outsiders, 1983. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Diane Lane. SYNOPSIS: Two rival teen gangs, the working class Greasers and the well-off Socs get caught up in frequent confrontation in 1960s Oklahoma. But when one of the Socs […]

Hammett, 1982. Directed by Wim Wenders. Starring Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear and Elisha Cook, Jr. SYNOPSIS: When and old detective friend shows up at his door, pulp fiction writer Dashiell Hammett gets involved in a world of gangsters and double-crossers that he thought he had left behind. Hammett is a curiosity. […]

A woman from Michigan has filed a lawsuit against FilmDistrict and theatre chain Emagine on the basis that the trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive was misleading. Sarah Deming objected to the movie being promoted as similar to Fast and Furious and other driving movies when in fact it “bore very little similarity to a […]

According to a report from Variety, Warner Bros. are looking to push on with their plans for a cinematic revival of the classic TV anthology series The Twilight Zone, with the studio said to be mulling over a shortlist of three potential A-list directors in Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises), Michael Bay (Transformers: Dark […]

Earlier this week TorrentFreak revealed the ten most pirated movies of 2011 through file-sharing software BitTorrent – a list that was topped by the most recent installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five, which suffered a total of 9,260,000 illegal downloads since its release in April. The list throws up a few […]

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November 2011… There was little surprise at the UK box office this past weekend as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 pulled in another £4.6m in receipts, with the fourth entry in the hugely popular vampire romance […]

The Legend of Bruce Lee, 2008. Starring Kwok-Kwan Chan, Michelle Lang, Ted E. Duran, Hazen MacIntyre, Ray Park, Mark Dacascos and Gary Daniels. SYNOPSIS: A biography of the legendary martial arts icon Bruce Lee, following him from his childhood in Hong Kong through to movie stardom and his untimely death at the age of 32. […]

Following on from his interview last week, Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Gary Daniels films… When a plethora of martial art specialists were foist upon audiences in the late 80s and early 90s, there were a few who managed to find an audience and maintain lengthy careers in the video realm. One such star […]