Chris Hemsworth is certainly going to have his hands full this November in Thor: The Dark World, with the God of Thunder going up against his evil stepbrother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), along with two new villains in Christopher Eccleston’s (Doctor Who, G.I Joe: Retaliation) Malekith the Accursed and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s (Lost, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) dual […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… This feature often asks whether some novels really are completely impossible to adapt for the screen. Usually diehard fans of much loved books being made into films are concerned primarily with one thing; the characters. They worry that the actors won’t fit their mental images […]

Liam Trim discusses the cinematic adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day in the third of a three-part feature (read parts one and two)… Anne Hathaway’s performance in One Day may be flawed and ultimately a letdown, for cinemagoers and fans of the book alike, but she has one huge advantage over co-star Jim Sturgess; people […]

Liam Trim discusses the cinematic adaptation of David Nicholls’ One Day in the first of a three part feature… Novels can be described as “cinematic” for different reasons. The prose might have a lush, vivid attention to detail that would translate into award winning visuals on screen. There might be a twisty, zippy, unpredictable plot […]

The Lost Bladesman (China: Guan yun chang), 2011. Written and Directed by Felix Chong, Alan Mak. Starring Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Yu Ai Lei, Hong Chen and Siu-hou Chin. SYNOPSIS: In ancient China, the legendary warrior Guan Yun Chang (Donnie Yen) is forced to fight for a rival warlord during the warring period of the […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… This week’s Page and Screen doesn’t actually feature any screen as such. In fact it’s little more than a completely shameless bit of self promotion on my part. Nevertheless I’ll try to justify it by claiming that what I’m about to shamelessly advertise fits in […]

Cowboys & Aliens, 2011. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Clancy Brown and Keith Carradine. SYNOPSIS: When a spaceship arrives in the Wild West region of Arizona, only a posse of cowboys stand in the way an alien invasion. It’s 1873 – a lone cowboy (Daniel […]

This might come as a surprise to some of our younger readers out there, but Chevy Chase used to be really funny. The former Saturday Night Live star enjoyed a run of successful comedies in the 1980s, starring in films such as Caddyshack, ¡Three Amigos!, the Vacation series and Fletch before his career nosedived during […]

The Lavender Hill Mob, 1951. Directed by Charles Crichton. Starring Alec Guiness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James and Alfi Bass. SYNOPSIS: A bank clerk finds himself drawn into a gold smuggling racket. You may as well know something right now. You will have to get a new mouth after watching The Lavender Hill Mob, because the […]

After the announcement at San Diego a couple months back, there was a lot (and we mean a lot) of speculation from “reputable sources” about who might take on the role of The Dark Knight for Zack Snyder’s Batman vs. Superman. As we all now know it will be Ben Affleck putting on the cowl, but […]