Liam Trim on the viral marketing campaigns of The Dark Knight Rises and Super 8…Last week the hype for Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, moved into top gear with the launch of a clever and mysterious publicity campaign. On Thursday the 19th of May the official website became active, only to […]

Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Dolph Lundgren films… From duking it out with Sly Stallone, to being Master Of The Universe, to taking on intergalactic drug dealers (yes… really!) or tearing up the desert in a Ferrari, Dolph Lundgren has pretty much done it all in the action world. He’s fired an array of […]

Zodiac, 2007. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas and Dermot Mulroney. SYNOPSIS: A San Francisco cartoonist becomes obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer, a murderer with seemingly random targets who sends cryptic codes and threats to the city’s police and […]

Drive Angry 3D, 2011. Directed by Patrick Lussier. Starring Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner, Billy Burke, David More, Todd Farmer and Christa Campbell. SYNOPSIS: Milton (Nicolas Cage) breaks out of hell to rescue his baby granddaughter who has been abducted by the cult who also killed his daughter. However Satan’s assistant – The Accountant […]

Never Let Me Go, 2010. Directed by Mark Romanek. Starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Sally Hawkins, Charlotte Rampling, Nathalie Richard, Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough. SYNOPSIS: After spending their childhood in a seemingly idyllic English boarding school, three young adults must come to terms with the sinister truth behind their existence. The way […]

Candyman: The David Klein Story, 2010. Directed by Costa Botes. SYNOPSIS: A biopic charting the rise and fall of the inventor of Jelly Belly jelly beans. Covering the rise and fall of Jelly Belly inventor David Klein, Candyman is a true underdog story with a not-so-happy ending. In all, Candyman is an enjoyable view regardless […]

Operation: Endgame a.k.a. Rogues Gallery, 2010. Directed by Fouad Mikati. Starring Joe Anderson, Rob Corddry, Ellen Barkin, Odette Yustman, Maggie Q, Zach Galifianakis, Adam Scott, Brandon T. Jackson, Emilie de Ravin, Bob Odenkirk, Ving Rhames and Jeffrey Tambor. SYNOPSIS: In a secret underground facility a rogue agent kills the boss of an elite government spy […]

I Am Number Four, 2011. Directed by D.J. Caruso. Starring Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Kevin Durand, Callan McAuliffe and Jake Abel. SYNOPSIS: An extraordinary young man masks his true identity, passing himself off as a typical student to elude a deadly enemy intent on his destruction. Three like him have already […]

How to Train Your Dragon, 2010. Directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders. Starring Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill, Craig Ferguson, T. J. Miller, Kristen Wiig and David Tennant. SYNOPSIS: A young Viking aims to follow in his tribe’s tradition of slaying a dragon but finds himself befriending the creature […]

Blue Valentine, 2010. Directed by Derek Cianfrance. Starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. SYNOPSIS: The story of love found and love lost told through past and present moments in time. During the 26th Annual Sundance Film Festival, many films were introduced to the world. Many films that went on to do well among public audiences. […]