Street Wars, 2011. Directed by Keoni Waxman. Starring Steven Seagal, Kyle Cassie & Peter Graham-Gaudreau. SYNOPSIS: Elijah Kane (Steven Seagal), the head of a crack undercover police unit, leads his team in a race against time to bring to justice the cold blooded gang flooding the Seattle streets with a lethal drug. Steven Seagal has […]

Liam Trim takes in a double-bill of ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Super 8’… It’s been a while since I went to the cinema. But it feels much longer than it actually is. That’s because it’s summer blockbuster season and every week a new big gun toting production swaggers into town. Stay […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of Page and Screen… Some stories will always be set in certain times and places. It’s impossible to imagine most Dickensian tales grounded in a world without workhouses and industrial poverty, for example. Similarly Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes would feel out of place investigating crime anywhere other than […]

The Tunnel (German: Der Tunnel), 2001. Directed by Roland Suso Richter. Starring Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Alexandra Maria Lara and Sebastian Koch. SYNOPSIS: A group of West Germans hatch an audacious plan to rescue their loves ones from the communist regime of the East by tunnelling beneath the Berlin Wall. Film fans love a good […]

Assault on the Pacific: Kamikaze a.k.a. For Those We Love, 2007. Directed by Taku Shinjo. Starring Keiko Kishi, Satoshi Tokushige, Yosuke Kubozuka and Michitaka Tsutsui. SYNOPSIS: A World War II epic about a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots and their journey through training and first missions toward the terrifying destiny of their battle with the […]

The Grim Reaper (Italian: La commare secca), 1962. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Marisa Solinas, Allen Midgette, Giancarlo De Rosa and Alfredo Leggi. SYNOPSIS: When a prostitute is brutally murdered in a park near the Tiber River in Rome, the police track down all visitors to the park that night in the hope of catching […]

The Door, 2009. Directed by Anno Saul . Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, Valeria Eisenbart and Heike Makatsch.  SYNOPSIS: Plagued with guilt over the death of his daughter, an artist discovers a door that allows him to travel back in time to the day of her death and alter history. We all make mistakes. We all […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… Warning: This article contains spoilers that may induce suicide. When I finally saw Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, just a few days after its release, I was ecstatic to find that the franchise bowed out by reclaiming its magical mojo. For me […]

Source Code, 2011. Directed by Duncan Jones . Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright and Russell Peters.  SYNOPSIS: A soldier finds himself living and reliving a harrowing train bombing as part of an experimental government program to find out who is responsible for the attack. Source Code is being compared to almost every […]

Liam Trim on Inside Job and the ongoing News International phone-hacking scandal… I just watched Inside Job. It was one of those films I felt I had to see, rather than desperately wanting to. I am glad I did watch it though. I am still reeling from the impact of its message. I was expecting […]