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 […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Germain Lussier, for /Film on 23rd March 2012, revealed a little Django Unchained information for the Tarantino fans among us… “Here’s what Shamberg said when I asked when we may see some footage from Django Unchained: ‘I’ve seen some stuff and it’s amazing. We’re still shooting and my […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C’era una volta il West), 1968. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale. Sergio Leone’s epic Spaghetti Western is widely regarded as a masterpiece. […]

Simon Moore reviews the first episode of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… You saw the film. You raised a quizzical brow at his moonboots. You scrolled past the endless dance scene rip-offs on YouTube. Now Napoleon Dynamite has his own animated TV sitcom. Replacing the spiteful and unfunny Allen Gregory in Channel 4’s late Tuesday […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Casablanca, 1942. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Casablanca wasn’t expected to be anything and was rushed into release in order to take […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Once Upon a Time in America, 1984. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, William Forsythe, James Hayden, Tuesday Weld, Treat Williams, Joe Pesci, Burt Young and Jennifer Connelly. Once Upon a Time in […]