Scum, 1979. Directed by Alan Clarke. Starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth and Phil Daniels. SYNOPSIS: When Carlin (Ray Winstone) is sent to a Borstal young offenders institute carrying a hard man reputation he is pushed to the limit by wild inmates and cruel officers to uphold it. In this brutal concrete jungle it’s […]

Charlie’s Angels star loses battle with cancer… Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominated actress Farrah Fawcett has died after a three year battle with cancer, aged 62. The star became a pop culture icon and sex symbol through her role as Jill Munroe in the classic 70’s television show Charlie’s Angels, and her death comes […]

Family Guy creator announces plans for a theatrical outing for the Griffin family… Seth MacFarlane, the creator of hit animated comedy shows Family Guy, American Dad, and upcoming spinoff The Cleveland Show, has been talking to Wired Magazine about his interest in bringing Peter Griffin and company to the big screen. MacFarlane, who was attending […]

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 […]