D.J. Haza selects the top ten movie moustaches… This month is Movember… the month when gentleman grow a range of moustaches in order to raise money for men’s health charities, raise awareness for men’s health issues such as testicular cancer and also have a bit of fun. As I am myself growing a tash and […]

Le Havre, 2011. Written and Directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Starring André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. SYNOPSIS: In the quiet city of Le Havre, optimistic old man Marcel and his misfit friends unite to protect young African immigrant Idrissa from deportation. The sleepy Normandy city of the title is the backdrop to […]

Caprice, 1967. Directed by Frank Tashlin. Starring Doris Day and Richard Harris. SYNOPSIS: A female spy (Doris Day) working for a cosmetics company gets caught up in a complex plot to discover the formula to a new hairspray. Teaming up with a fellow spy (Richard Harris) they discover an underworld involving more than just beauty […]

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 […]