Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Michael Douglas films… The son of screen legend Kirk Douglas and actress Diana Hill, actor and producer Michael Douglas shot to fame alongside Karl Malden in the TV police drama The Streets of San Francisco (1972-1976) and received his first Academy Award as producer of Miloš Forman’s classic 1975 […]

Gary Collinson traces the many screen incarnations of The Dark Knight in the first of a three-part feature… With Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Superman debuting in Action Comics #1 in 1938 to unprecedented success, publisher DC Comics tasked 18-year-old Bob Kane with creating a new character to extend their line of superheroes. Inspired by […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars – The Complete Season One Ultimate Collector’s Edition, 2009. Executive Produced by George Lucas. Featuring the voice talents of Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Matthew Wood and Anthony Daniels. SYNOPSIS: As the Clone Wars rage across the galaxy the Jedi lead the Grand Army of […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Boxing Movies… Screen interpretations of the sweet science can be traced back to the silent era, with movies such as Buster Keaton’s Battling Butler (1926) and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Ring (1927) paving the way for the film noir offerings of the Forties and Fifties. After a dry period the […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Films of Steven Spielberg… With his twenty-four features amassing a global box office take of around $8.5 billion, two-time Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg is one of but a select few who can genuinely lay claim to being the greatest filmmaker of all time. A founding father of the […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Films of Tony Scott… British director Tony Scott’s introduction to the world of film came at 16 when he starred as the lead in Boy and Bicycle (1965), the debut short from older brother Ridley. Tony soon found that his true calling lay behind the camera and, after joining […]

The One That Got Away, 1957. Directed by Roy Ward Baker. Starring Hardy Krüger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe and Terence Alexander. SYNOPSIS: During the Battle of Britain a Luftwaffe plane is hit and plunges down into the British countryside. Although the pilot is captured, he is extremely confident and focussed on his plan: to escape […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Video Nasties… In the early 1980s the rise in popularity of the VHS cassette was met with concerns from some quarters (namely morality crusaders such as Mary Whitehouse, religious groups and media organisations looking to stir a moral panic) about the content of the unregulated home video market in […]

Sin Nombre, 2009. Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Starring Édgar Flores, Paulina Gaitán, Kristyan Ferrer and Tenoch Huerta. SYNOPSIS: A Honduran girl and a Mexican gang-banger undertake a perilous trek towards a new life across the border in the United States. The feature debut of American cinematographer Cary Joji Fukunaga, Sin Nombre presents a bleak […]