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. […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola in the first of a five-part feature… “I used to have synchronized movies,” recalled filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola of his industrious childhood. “Most of them I cut together from home movies my family had shot.” Charging admission for the neighbourhood screenings, the cinematic venture […]

A Nightmare on Elm Street, 2010. Directed by Samuel Bayer. Starring Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker, Kellan Lutz, Connie Britton and Clancy Brown. SYNOPSIS: A disfigured killer with a razor-glove invades the dreams of a group of teenagers. For those few people unfamiliar with the concept of A Nightmare […]

With his latest film Fair Game released later this year, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Doug Liman in the second of a two part feature… read part one. “I’ve always been a huge action film fan and a couple of friends of mine were in marriage therapy,” explained screenwriter Simon Kingberg as to […]

Carlos, 2010. Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstätten, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach, Susanne Wuest, Anna Thalbach and Julia Hummer. SYNOPSIS: A biopic of the Venezuelan revolutionary and international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Before Osama bin Laden became the world’s most wanted fugitive in the wake of the 9/11 terror […]

With his latest film Fair Game released later this year, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director Doug Liman in the first of a two part feature… Being the son of a legendary attorney, who represented some of America’s largest corporations such as Warner Bros and served as the U.S. Senate’s lead counsel in the […]

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, 2009. Directed by Kevin Hamedani. Starring Janette Armand, Doug Fahl, Russell Hodgkinson, Cooper Hopkins, Bill Johns, James Mesher and Cornelia Moore. SYNOPSIS: The idyllic island town of Port Gamble comes under attack by a horde of flesh-eating zombies, leaving a rag-tag band of rebel stereotypes to fight for their survival. […]

London River, 2009. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. Starring Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyaté. SYNOPSIS: Two strangers journey to London in search of their children who are missing in the aftermath of the July 7th terror attacks. Forgive my sexism here, but seeing as I’m not a middle-aged-to-elderly female it’s pretty safe to say that a […]

With his latest film The Social Network in cinemas this month, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of director David Fincher in the second of a three part feature… read part one here. After the production turmoil associated with his directorial debut Alien 3 (1992), American moviemaker David Fincher had given up on the idea of […]