28 Days Later…, 2002. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Cillian Murphy, Noah Huntley, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns and Christopher Eccleston. SYNOPSIS: A virus sweeps across Britain, turning the population into raging creatures. Four weeks later, a man in a coma awakes to find the country in a dire state. Before discussing 28 Days […]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1990. Directed by Steve Barron. Starring Josh Pais, Michelan Sisti, Robbie Rist, Leif Tilden, Corey Feldman, David Forman, Brian Tochi, Kevin Clash, Judith Hoag, David McCharen and Elias Koteas. SYNOPSIS: Four teenage mutant ninja turtles must face a villainous foe in order to protect their master and save New York City. […]

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life, 2011. Written and Directed by Werner Herzog. SYNOPSIS: Werner Herzog interviews various people from a small town in Texas involved in a triple homicide. The repercussions of the murders itself are explored from different points of view. Werner Herzog’s latest documentary is a tale […]

The Hunger Games, 2012. Directed by Gary Ross. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland and Woody Harrelson. SYNOPSIS: Teenager Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is forced to compete in The Hunger Games, a nationally televised event in which ‘Tributes’ must fight with one another until a sole […]

American Beauty, 1999. Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper and Allison Janney. SYNOPSIS: A middle aged man finds himself questioning what his life has become and promptly embarks on a mid-life crisis. The world, and particularly America, is now a very different place than […]

Kill Keith, 2011. Directed by Andy Thompson. Starring Keith Chegwin, Marc Pickering, Susannah Fielding and Tony Blackburn. SYNOPSIS: Candidates to replace the lead anchor of breakfast show Up the Crack of Dawn start dying mysterious deaths. Who could possibly be behind them? There’s a serial killer on the loose, killing candidates to host a breakfast […]

The Doom Generation, 1995. Directed by Gregg Araki. Starring James Duval, Rose McGowan and Johnathon Schaech. SYNOPSIS: Two troubled teens and an adolescent drifter embark on a sex and violence-fuelled journey across America. When future historians look back to cinema to see what people of the past were like, I really hope they don’t stumble […]

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, 2008. Directed by Peter Sollett. Starring Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Ari Graynor and Alexis Dziena. SYNOPSIS: During one night in New York City searching for a band, both Nick and Norah discover so much more. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is at times painfully hip, naively romantic, and ultimately utterly […]

Simon Moore selects his ten most convincing movie couples… Chances are you’ve been recommended at least thirty ‘most romantic’ films by now, very likely accompanied by pictures of couples kissing in torrential rain, or laughing in sunlit streets, flashing their pearly whites and smooth complexions at one another. Just out of focus, you might see […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Fight Club, 1999. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf and Jared Leto. So in writing this article I am immediately breaking rules one and two of Fight Club, but here it […]