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 […]

The Real Band of Brothers (US: Brothers in Arms: True Stories of the 101st Airborne) Directed by Edward Feuerherd. SYNOPSIS: “It’s fifteen minutes past midnight on June 6th 1944. A C-47 Dakota is humming over the skies of Nazi-occupied France. Perched at the aircraft’s open door is Captain Frank Lillyman. He gives the signal and […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of The Man of Steel had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Absent from the screen for almost two decades, The Man of Steel finally returned to banish the ghost of 1987’s The Quest For Peace (and part III, for that matter) in […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “I admired [Stanley] Kubrick for the sheer variety of his films,” stated Steven Spielberg of the reclusive and revered American filmmaker. “Paths of Glory [1957] was the best antiwar […]

Largo Winch, 2008. Directed by Jérôme Salle. Starring Tomer Sisley, Mélanie Thierry, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic and Steven Waddington. SYNOPSIS: When a wealthy business tycoon is found dead his adopted son and heir suspects foul play and sets out to protect his father’s estate and avenge his death. Prior to viewing this film I’d […]

Kandahar Break: Fortress of War, 2009. Directed by David Whitney. Starring Shaun Dooley, Dean Andrews, Rasheed Naz and Tatmain Ul Qulb. SYNOPSIS: A British mine clearance engineer is pursued across the desert after falling foul of a corrupt police chief in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The feature debut of British writer-director David Whitney, Kandahar Break: Fortress of […]

Gary Collinson ponders the fate of The Lord of the Rings had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings were surely satisfied with Peter Jackson’s Award-winning trilogy, which remained pretty much faithful to the sacred […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary British filmmaker Carol Reed in the first of a two-part feature… Following in the footsteps of his father Sir Herbert Beerholm Tree, who founded the Royal School of Dramatic Arts, Carol Reed decided to pursue a career in the theatre. “I wasn’t a very good actor,” reflected the […]

The Tree of Life, 2011. Written and Directed by Terrence Malick. Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain. SYNOPSIS: The film follows the life journey of the eldest son of a Midwestern family through the innocence of childhood in the 1950s to his disillusioned adult years in the modern world, seeking answers to the […]