The Killer Inside Me, 2010. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson and Bill Pullman. SYNOPSIS: An unassuming small town sheriff leads a double life as a psychotic serial killer. British director Michael Winterbottom’s latest project The Trip, a “semi-real” comedy starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as loose versions of […]

Africa United, 2010. Directed by Debs Gardner-Paterson. Starring Eriya Ndayambaje, Roger Nsengiyumva and Sanyu Joanita Kintu. SYNOPSIS: Three Rwandan children set out on an extraordinary journey across seven countries to achieve their ultimate dream of taking part in the 2010 Football World Cup opening ceremony. Africa United has been dubbed this year’s Slumdog Millionaire and […]

Harry Brown, 2009. Directed by Daniel Barber. Starring Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Ben Drew, Charlie Creed-Miles, David Bradley, Jack O’Connell and Liam Cunningham. SYNOPSIS: A retired Royal Marine takes matters into his own hands when his friend is murdered by a gang of young hoodlums. It’s difficult to precisely pinpoint the moment I fully embraced […]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, 2010. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon. SYNOPSIS: After emerging from prison disgraced corporate raider Gordon Gecko partners with a young Wall Street broker and sets out to alert the financial community to the impending economic […]

Tom Jolliffe discusses the ins and outs, ups and downs, past, present and future of Ivan Drago… One of the Reagan era children, from the taut, muscular womb of 80’s action cinema, Dolph Lundgren never quite hit the big league. In the shadow of Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis were Van Damme, Seagal, and Norris. Then […]

A Single Man, 2009. Directed by Tom Ford. Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult and Matthew Goode. SYNOPSIS: After the death of his long-time companion, a middle-aged college professor decides to kill himself and goes about getting his affairs in order in what would otherwise be a normal day. I’ve seen A Single Man […]

The Evil Dead, 1981. Directed by Sam Raimi. Starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich and Theresa Tilly. SYNOPSIS: Five students journey to an isolated cabin where they find The Book of the Dead and unwittingly release an evil force from within the woods. The first outing in the deliciously campy Evil Dead […]

Gary Collinson traces the many screen incarnations of The Dark Knight in the third of a three-part feature… read parts one and two. While the Batman franchise was enjoying a prolonged spell of creativity and popularity throughout the 80s and 90s, the release of the much-maligned Batman & Robin (1997) looked to have steered the […]

Gary Collinson traces the many screen incarnations of The Dark Knight in the second of a three-part feature… read part one here. Just as Superman’s comic-book debut had led to the creation of Batman almost forty years earlier, the success of Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie (1978) helped plant the seed that would ultimately bring […]

Burke and Hare, 2010. Directed by John Landis. Starring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Jessica Hynes, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Bailey, Georgia King, Tim Curry and Christopher Lee. SYNOPSIS: A black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who discover a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school. Edinburgh, 1828. Public hangings are […]