There Be Dragons, 2011. Written and Directed by Roland Joffé. Starring Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott and Olga Kurylenko. SYNOPSIS: In the wake of the Spanish Civil War, a journalist discovers a dark and devastating connection between his estranged father and a candidate for canonization. Okay I’ll admit it, when first tasked with writing […]

Following his comeback in the Planet Terror portion of the Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino collaboration Grindhouse back in 2007, cult actor Michael Biehn – star of 80’s classics The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss – now seems to have a taste for exploitation flicks. Having made his directorial debut last year with the suspense […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Angie Han writes for Slash Film about a new (Beatles-inspired?) double-film project that Joel Edgerton and Jessica Chastain have recently become involved in called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers: “I’m a sucker for movies about failing relationships to begin with, […]

Ben Gazzara, the veteran actor of the stage and screen, has passed away on Friday at the age of 81 after battling pancreatic cancer. Born in New York City in 1930, Gazzara studied acting at the Dramatic Workshop in New York before joining the celebrated Actors Studio and began his career with a number of […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Boogie Nights, 1997. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, Heather Graham and William H. Macy. Boogie Nights is the story of Dirk Diggler (Wahlberg) and how he and […]

Super, 2010. Directed by James Gunn. Starring Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon and Liv Tyler. SYNOPSIS: An ordinary man decides to superhero suit up and tackle crime himself. What would happen if an ordinary guy with no superpowers was to one day decide enough is enough, don a costume and fight crime? This is […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Trainspotting, 1996. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd and Kelly Macdonald. Danny Boyle’s stylish and charismatic film adapted from the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name tells the […]

Luke Owen takes in a Friday the 13th marathon at the Prince Charles Cinema… A little over 2 years ago, I wrote a retrospective on slasher staple Friday the 13th and its many sequels. I have always had a fondness for the series and have lost count the amount of times I’ve watched them. Those […]

Coriolanus, 2011. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain. SYNOPSIS: After being banished from the city, a military hero returns to Rome in order to extract his revenge. William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus might not be the most famous of his plays, and certainly not, in my opinion, […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Usual Suspects, 1995. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin Spacey. The Usual Suspects is a stylish little neo-noir with a meager $6 million budget […]