Martin Deer on why the world needs the Man of Steel… This week a new, and rather fantastic, synopsis for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel was released. It gave nothing away about the story, as was to be expected, but there were a couple of things in there that really got the fan in me […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Brazil, 1985. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin and Kim Greist. Brazil is Terry Gilliam’s black comedy futuristic fantasy film is set in a dystopian world that […]

The Adam Sandler comedy Jack and Jill enjoyed a clean sweep at last night’s 32nd annual Golden Raspberry Awards – better known as the Razzies – picking up a record-breaking ten gongs and winning in every single category as Hollywood ‘celebrated’ the very worst in cinematic achievement from 2011. Only one other film managed to […]

House of the Rising Sun, 2011. Directed by Brian A Miller. Starring Dave ‘Batista’ Bautista, Amy Smart, Dominic Purcell, Craig Fairbrass and Danny Trejo. SYNOPSIS: Ray, now a bouncer but once a dirty cop, finds himself ensnared in the politics of a local crime syndicate. He must find who was behind the robbery of one […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… There’s Something About Mary, 1998. Directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. Starring Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller, Matt Dillon, Chris Elliott and Lee Evans. There’s Something About Mary is an absolutely hilarious tale of Ted’s (Stiller) attempts to win […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Charles Gant, on Thursday 29th March, writes for The Guardian: “MGM, disclosed to its investors that box-office for Fincher’s [The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] film was “below our expectations and we booked a modest loss”. The result follows a damp squib return for Let Me In, the […]

After bringing the Autobots and Decepticons to the screen with his big-budget Transformers trilogy, Michael Bay seems determined to replicate this success with further live-action adaptations of classic children’s properties. As we know, Bay is currently working on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot alongside a fourth Transformers movie, and now comes word that his […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Children of Men, 2006. Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Claire-Hope Ashitey, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Pam Ferris and Danny Huston. Children of Men is set in a futuristic world not too far from our own. […]

Filmmaker Kevin Smith may be calling time on his directing career after his next outing, the two-part hockey drama Hit Somebody, but that doesn’t mean we’ve heard the last from the various characters of the View Askewniverse, with Smith taking to Twitter to tease the return of Dante Hicks and Randall Graves for new episodes […]

Matt Smith takes part in a roundtable discussion with acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog about his latest documentary Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life… So. My first ever Q&A. And it’s with a cinematic great. Greeeaaat. No pressure then. So I pack my bags, head off to London with my questions […]