Following the recent passing of director Irvin Kershner, Trevor Hogg explores the development of Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back… “For many fans and cinephiles, Empire is the best of the Star Wars movies, dark and enigmatic – the film noir of the saga,” writes author J.W. Rinzler in the introduction of […]

Family Guy: It’s a Trap! Directed by Peter Shin. Featuring the voice talents of Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis Mike Henry, Patrick Warburton and Dee Bradley Baker. SYNOPSIS: Return of the Jedi gets the Family Guy treatment as Han Solo (Peter), Chewbacca (Brian), Princess Leia (Lois) and Luke Skywalker (Chris) continue their […]

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 […]