The second season of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones ended this week and one of its stars has just signed up to appear in a new film called Greenland Time at Sigma / Zentropa. Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow, will star opposite Vera Farmiga (Source Code, The Departed) in the psychological thriller […]

Luke Owen with five ways that Warner Bros. can get the Justice League movie right… As reported earlier today by the Batman of Flickering Myth, Gary Collinson, Warner Bros. are pushing forward with their Justice League movie that has been rumoured for quite some time now. In fact, back in 2007, WB came close to […]

Liam Trim on why Steve McQueen’s Shame should never be censored… Steve McQueen’s (Hunger) film about a sex addict in New York, played by Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class, Prometheus), will not be shown in Singapore. Censors there have demanded that certain scenes be cut. In particular, a graphic threesome involving Fassbender’s protagonist Brandon Sullivan […]

Phone Booth, 2002. Directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker and Katie Holmes. SYNOPSIS: A man receives a call in a phone booth and realises that he is being watched. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a fast-talking publicist who has made a living out of lying. Stu seemingly has it all […]

Jake Wardle selects his ten favourite movie stares… Stares, glares, gazes… whatever you want to call them, the movies are full of them, and as far as I can tell nobody’s ever compiled a list of the best. Shocking, I’m sure you’ll agree, but true. For some, even the mention of ‘film’ will bring to […]

Justice (a.k.a. Seeking Justice), 2011. Directed by Roger Donaldson. Staring Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Jennifer Carpenter, Guy Pearce, IronE Singleton, Xander Berkeley and Harold Perrineau. SYNOPSIS: A husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him get revenge when his wife is assaulted. Season Of The Witch. A new low. Drive Angry. Pitiful. […]

The acclaimed illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie passed away on Saturday at his home in Berkeley, California, aged 82. A name that will be instantly familiar to Star Wars fans, McQuarrie was one of the most influential figures in science fiction and fantasy art and his visionary illustrations were key to defining […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Town, 2010. Directed by Ben Affleck. Starring Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Blake Lively, Jeremy Renner, Chris Cooper and Pete Postlethwaite. The Town is a well crafted crime story adapted from the Chuck Hogan novel Prince of […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Terminator, 1984. Directed by James Cameron. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen. The Terminator is a classic Hollywood action film about a cyborg assassin (Schwarzenegger) sent on a mission that sees him travel back […]

Luke Owen continues on the road to The Avengers, revisiting The Incredible Hulk… The Incredible Hulk, 2008. Directed by Louis Leterrier. Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt and Tim Blake Nelson. SYNOPSIS: Following an experiment that causes him to turn into the giant green-skinned Hulk, Dr. Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) lives in […]