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 […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential John Candy films… Canadian funnyman John Candy was one of the biggest – both literally and figuratively – comic stars of the 1980s, working alongside a host of respected directors and acting talent. Honing his skills on The Second City Toronto comedy circuit, Candy gained widespread attention as a […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Films directed by Clint Eastwood… Despite a mantlepiece that boasts four Oscar statuettes (Best Director and Best Picture for both Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby) and an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood remains synonymous with his on-screen persona while his talents as a filmmaker are […]

Gary Collinson selects his Five Essential Stephen King adaptations… Acclaimed writer Stephen King is one of the best-selling authors of all time and his stories have served as inspiration for countless theatrical features, TV movies and miniseries. While his words may well be his power, adaptations of said words often leave much to be desired. […]