Roger Holland on the ‘ultimate everyman’, John Cusack… This article contains a fair few spoilers. If you haven’t seen Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity, shame on you. Also you may want to stop reading. Following her break-up with Lloyd Dobler, Diane Court lies in bed unable to sleep. Faintly at first, the […]

With talk of Michael Fassbender as a potential future Bond, Liam Trim oversees a battle between the X-Men: First Class star and 007 himself, Daniel Craig… Okay so I know technically Michael Fassbender isn’t a Bond but there was no way I was calling this anything else. If you’ve seen the new X-Men film you’ll […]

The Halfway House, 1944. Directed by Basil Dearden. Starring Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns and Sally Ann Howes. SYNOPSIS: A group of strangers take shelter at a remote Welsh Inn during a storm where they are soon brought together by a series of unsettling events. If you are yet to enter the competition here at Flickering […]

Director of the outstanding Snowtown – Justin Kurzel – took some time out of his well deserved Cannes-paign to talk with Blake Howard about the experience of his masterpiece… BH: Snowtown feels like a scientific experiment, it creates/portrays the conditions that a serial killing troupe can exist. How much did the setting and local cast affect […]

Jean Claude Van Damme: Behind Closed Doors, 2011. Directed by Jared White. Starring Jean Claude Van Damme. Narrated by Jason Flemyng. SYNOPSIS: A reality show giving unprecedented access into the life of action star Jean Claude Van Damme. In the mid-80’s, a young, and buffedly (yes, I just invented that word!) goofy looking young Belgian, […]

Luke Owen feasts on the ‘American Pie’ trilogy… Before I begin this week’s issue, I can already hear a lot of you alerting me to rule number one of my Talkin’ Trilogy series: 1. “It has to be a trilogy” So, the question is, is American Pie really a trilogy? I referred to Indiana Jones […]

Liam Trim provides some alternatives to the Royal Wedding in the second of a three part feature… My second suggestion of anti-Royal Wedding medication for the ordinary man, following the sensational spectacle of Thor, is a single strong dose of BBC drama United, shown on Sunday and now available on iPlayer. If Thor was grounded […]

My Soul to Take, 2010. Written and Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Max Thieriot, John Magaro and Denzel Whitaker. SYNOPSIS: Sixteen years after his murderous rampage, the Riverton Ripper has seemingly returned to Riverton, with the seven children born the day he died in his sights. But does one of the seven hold the key […]

It’s been rumoured for a while but now its official – Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to return to his signature role as the unstoppable killing machine (now with added rust!) in a new instalment of the Terminator franchise. Deadline reports that Arnie and director Justin Lin (The Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious […]

Trevor Hogg continues his Peter Weir retrospective with a look at the director’s eleventh feature… The Truman Show, 1998. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Brian Delate, Holland Taylor and Paul Giamatti. SYNOPSIS: Truman Burbank’s perfect world is thrown into turmoil when he unwittingly discovers that […]