Rohan Morbey selects his Five Essential Tom Cruise Films… In a career spanning over 25 years, Tom Cruise has been one of the top grossing stars at the global box office throughout the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, with his films topping $2.8 billion in worldwide ticket sales. He became the first actor in history to […]

Santosh Sandhu discusses the French New Wave… French cinema in the post war years consisted mainly of genre movies with high production values. It was often studio bound and formulaic. The Gaullist regime came to power in the late 1950s and wanted to promote a home grown industry to compete against the dominance of Hollywood. […]

Dominic O’Brien selects his Five Essential Guilty Pleasure Childhood Movies of the 80s… Oh how I love 80s filmmaking. Honestly no other decade within film (at least to my knowledge) contains more cult film features that span from kids films, through to long forgotten action and horror films. One such sub-genre which seems to have […]

Simon Moore selects his Five Essential Misfit Movies… So called because they feature (and appeal to) misfits of all ages. Why not ‘Teen Movies’? Reeks a bit of Disneyfication to me. Brings to mind the ruthless, sickeningly effective demographic hunting tactics of High School Musical or the Twilight saga. There’s no place for such non-smutty […]

The Night of the Iguana, 1964. Directed by John Huston. Starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon. SYNOPSIS: A tense drama revolving around a defrocked American minister and the three highly-emotional women who enter his life when he heads for Mexico, seeking a new start as a tour operator. After being defrocked from […]

Saw, 2003. Directed by James Wan. Produced by Darren McFarlane. Written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell. Starring Leigh Whannell, Paul Moder, Katrina Mathers and Dean Francis. Having written a feature length horror script after meeting while studying at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, up-and-coming filmmakers James Wan and Leigh Whannell decided to produce […]

Simon Moore selects his Five Essential James Bond Films… Picture this. It’s Saturday night. The TV schedule has failed you, yet again, on a Bank Holiday weekend, no less. Then a title jumps out at you from the onscreen menu. Ah… there’s a Bond film on… It doesn’t matter what title, it doesn’t matter when […]

Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Bruce Willis films… By the time the 80’s were in full swing, the muscle bound action hero era was at the forefront of blockbuster movies. Stallone was in his pomp, and so to was Arnold. The mono-syllabic tough guys with square jaws, rippling 12 packs and far more baby […]

Tom Jolliffe selects his Five Essential Sylvester Stallone films… From the moment he brought us Rocky, through to giving us Rambo, until his most recent gift, The Expendables, Sly Stallone has been a hero to many a red blooded male. Be it the bygone days of childhood, sneaking Stallone viewings from the video collection of […]

Cherokee Summer selects her Five Essential Natalie Portman Films… With ear-deafening reviews flooding out of the festival circuit, praising Natalie Portman’s performance in Darren Aronofsky’s (The Wrestler) trippy, psychological thriller Black Swan (arriving on UK shores for its UK premiere at The London Film Festival in a few weeks), we take a look at Natalie […]