Gary Collinson selects his Essential Movie Superheroes… Although the comic-book superhero was generally overlooked by the movie industry until Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie (1978) made you believe a man could fly, Hollywood failed to capitalise on this success over the next couple of decades and a stigma soon became attached to the genre. Save […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the fifth of a five-part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. Shot over a course of eighty-six days, Youth Without Youth (2007) is a cinematic adaptation of the novella by Mircea Eliade. Struck by lightning, a timid seventy year old academic […]

Deep Red a.k.a. The Hatchet Murders (Italian: Profondo Rosso), 1975. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring David Hemmings, Gabriele Lavia, Daria Nicolodi, Macha Meril, Glauco Mauri and Clara Calamai. SYNOPSIS: A music teacher investigates a series of brutal murders by a mysterious, hatchet-wielding psychopath. After making his name domestically with the “animal trilogy” of The Bird […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the fourth of a five-part feature… read parts one, two and three. “[Preston Tucker] developed plans for a car way ahead of its time in terms of engineering; yet the auto industry at large stubbornly resisted his innovative ideas,” remarked moviemaker Francis Ford […]

Ricky Gervais Live IV – Science SYNOPSIS: “Set on a stage designed to look like Frankenstein’s castle laboratory, the show brings together thought provoking rants and tongue in cheek political incorrectness about subjects as diverse as religion, racism and obesity.” Science is the fourth stand-up DVD from uber-successful comedian Ricky Gervais and was recorded back […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the third of a five-part feature… read parts one and two. “The success of The Godfather [1972] went to my head like a rush of perfume. I thought I couldn’t do anything wrong,” admitted Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola who decided to produce […]

Monsters, 2010. Written and Directed by Gareth Edwards. Starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able. SYNOPSIS: After discovering the possibility of alien life in our solar system, NASA launches a space probe which crash lands in Mexico, creating an ‘infected zone’. Six years later a cynical photojournalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the second of a five-part feature… read part one here. “There had been a movie a year or so before The Godfather [1972] based on the novel called the The Brotherhood [1968], starring Kirk Douglas [Paths of Glory],” remembered American director Francis Ford […]

Trevor Hogg reviews The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back… Carrying on the tradition he established with the original Star Wars, and the Indiana Jones franchise, author J.W. Rinzler delves once again into the Lucasfilm archives to assemble a detailed history on “one of the milestones of cinema”. Dividing his research over eleven […]

With his time as Governor of California drawing to a close what might the future hold for Arnold Schwarzenegger..? From humble origins in post-war Austria, Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone on to enjoy an extraordinary career and achieved unprecedented success in three vastly different professions. Rising to the summit of the bodybuilding world with seven Mr. […]