Luke Owen reports on a special Halloween screening of An American Werewolf in London courtesy of Volkswagen’s “See Film Differently”… Last Sunday, on Halloween, I was invited to the first instalment of Volkswagen’s ‘See Film Differently’ programme – a project that aims to “turns the camera on the locations” by screening films in the places […]

Luke Owen reviews the first episode of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror… “In Serling’s day, the atom bomb, civil rights, McCarthyism, psychiatry and the space race were of primary concern. Today he’d be writing about terrorism, the economy, the media, privacy and our relationship with technology.” – Charlie Brooker on Black Mirror Last Sunday […]

Luke Owen charts the evolution of the Jurassic Park trilogy… Jurassic Park is a franchise that holds a special place in my heart having almost grown up with it. The first film is held up as one of Spielberg’s best but its sequels however did not fare as well. The second and third instalments were […]

With a fourth installment about to hit cinemas, Luke Owen dissects Wes Craven’s ‘Scream’ trilogy… This coming Friday sees the release of the newest instalment of the Scream franchise, a good 15 years since the first one. Which means, as residents of Great Britain, we only have 4 more days to refer to Scream as […]

An American Werewolf in London, 1981. Directed by John Landis. Starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter. SYNOPSIS: After being attacked on the moors by a lycanthrope, an American student finds himself afflicted by the curse of the werewolf. [Note – this review is from the Halloween screening held at London Zoo as part […]

Jon Dudley interviews Daniel Pleacoff, producer of Treasure of the Black Jaguar… Tell us a little about this project. Daniel: The project originally started with Masayuki Imai who was doing a film out in L.A. and the production wasn’t going really well, it was just kind of a mess. Cameron Van Hoy, who is the […]

Treasure of the Black Jaguar, 2010. Directed by Mike Bruce. Starring Cameron Van Hoy, Michael Drayer, Timothy V. Murphy and Masayuki Imai. SYNOPSIS: Two boys discover that easy money is just a mirage when their desert-based caper takes a murderous turn. Treasure of the Black Jaguar is an American independent film that received a positive […]

Coverage of the West is West Q&A from the London Film Festival… In attendance: Ayub Khan-Din (Writer) Lesley Nicol (Anne) Ila Arun (Basheera) Aquib Khan (Sajid) Emil Marwa (Maneer) Om Puri (George) It’s been eleven years since the first film (East is East) which was very successful. It seems an extraordinary long time for a […]

DJ Haza reveals his guilty pleasures in more “Frustrated Ramblings Of An Aspiring Filmmaker”… We all have our guilty pleasures when it comes to film and television. That one film or television show that you know deep down is absolute tripe and you shouldn’t be watching it. But you do. It may be something that […]

Exorcismus (Spain: La posesión de Emma Evans), 2010. Directed by Manuel Carballo. Starring Sophie Vavasseur, Doug Bradley, Stephen Billington, Tommy Bastow and Jo-Anne Stockham. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl’s life changes when starts having frightening fits, which her parents attribute to psychological problems. However, she senses that something much darker is hiding inside her and waiting […]