According to Deadline, director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel) is looking to get back behind the camera after his recent acting excursion in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, entering negotiations with Warner Bros.’ to direct the upcoming Dracula re-imagining Harker, which is set to star Russell Crowe (Les Miserables, Man of Steel) as Bram Stoker’s legendary […]

Anghus Houvouras dissects The Amazing Spider-Man’s ‘broken promise’… Spider-Man fans seem deeply divided on the ending to The Amazing Spider-Man, specifically the final moments dealing with the future of Gwen Stacy’s relationship with Peter Parker. Here’s some obsessive analysis over one of the fundamental differences between Sam Raimi’s take on the character, and Marc Webb’s […]

Legendary British comedian, actor and writer Eric Sykes has died aged 89 after a short illness. Born in Oldham in 1923, Sykes went to become one of the country’s best-loved comic talents through his radio, film, television and stage work, enjoying a career that spanned seven decades and saw him collaborate with a host British […]

From the moment it was announced that Inception stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard were to reunite with director Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight Rises, there’s been a tonne of speculation over the identity of their characters, ‘John Blake’ and ‘Miranda Tate’. Actually, that’s not quite true… there’s been a tonne of speculation over […]

D.J. Haza presents the penultimate entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Nil By Mouth, 1997. Directed by Gary Oldman. Starring Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles and Laila Morse. Nil By Mouth is the dark and gritty tale of a family living on a London council estate and explores working […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Crying Game, 1992. Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Jim Broadbent, Ralph Brown and Tony Slattery. The Crying Game is Neil Jordan’s sensational psychological thriller about an IRA footsoldier who, after […]

One of the big surprises coming out of the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas this past week was the reaction towards 10 minutes of footage from director Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – or more specifically, the look of the footage, which Jackson has chosen to shoot at […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Inception, 2010. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard and Michael Caine. Inception is Christopher Nolan’s complex and thrilling story of thought extraction and inception through dream […]

Kudos to 20th Century Fox for the strong $50 million opening for Prometheus, which given the mysterious nature of the source material and an ‘R’ rating was no easy task. Box office prognosticators were all over the map with the numbers. Some were claiming the possibilities of the film crossing $66 million for the weekend […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Ben Child writes for The Guardian on Wednesday, June 6th 2012: “The film would unite Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman on the big screen for the first time, and comes after Joss Whedon’s comic book tale overtook the final Harry Potter movie to become the third highest-grossing film […]