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 […]

Inside Job, 2010. Directed by Charles Ferguson. Narrated by Matt Damon. SYNOPSIS: A documentary exposing the shocking truth behind the global economic crisis of 2008. Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, the documentary that is now on everybody’s lips courtesy of an Oscar win, has captured the attention of almost everyone that always had that inkling that […]

Source Code, 2011. Directed by Duncan Jones . Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga.  SYNOPSIS: Captain Colter Stevens, a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, wakes up in the body of a man he doesn’t recognise on a commuter train to Chicago. Before he can comprehend anything, a bomb goes off, killing him and everyone on […]

Coverage of the Q&A for The King’s Speech from the London Film Festival… In attendance: Tom Hooper (Director) Colin Firth (Prince Albert/King George) Geoffrey Rush (Lionel) Helena Bonham Carter (Elizabeth I). Did you have concerns with representing characters in this film, the main concern being that some of the people are still alive? Tom: Yeah. […]

Tron: Legacy, 2010. Directed by Joseph Kosinski. Starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Bruce Boxleitner and Olivia Wilde. SYNOPSIS: Sam (Garrett Hedlund), hasn’t seen or heard from his father Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) since his disappearance twenty years ago. Flynn’s old friend Alan (Bruce Boxleitner) contacts Sam after he receives a page from Flynn’s number at […]

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 […]