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 […]

Deadline are reporting that Fox have closed a deal with Matthew Vaughn to return to the director’s chair for a sequel to last year’s superhero prequel X-Men: First Class, with X-Men veteran Bryan Singer also back in a producing capacity and Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, X-Men: The Last Stand, Sherlock Holmes) handling scriptwriting […]

Rolling Thunder, 1977. Directed by John Flynn. Starring William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Haynes. SYNOPSIS: A Vietnam veteran seeks revenge after the murder of his wife and child. Part revenge tale, part human drama, part commentary on the Vietnam war, and part study on the human psyche, Rolling Thunder is a great example […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… On Friday 27th January, John Dugdale commented on the movie industry’s heavy reliance on literature; writing for The Guardian, he mentions the Best Picture nominees not based on books, noting: “Diehard believers in cinema’s creative autonomy will no doubt point in the Oscars list not only to The […]

The Long Riders, 1980. Directed by Walter Hill. Starring James Keach, Stacy Keach, David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Christopher Guest, Nicholas Guest, James Remar and Savannah Smith Boucher. SYNOPSIS: The story of the legendary bank raids of the James-Younger Gang. Last year saw the end of Bin Laden and Gaddafi, […]