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, […]

Cash (a.k.a. Ca$h), 2008. Directed by Éric Besnard. Starring Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno and Valeria Golino. SYNOPSIS: A master thief attempts to pull off the biggest robbery in history. The current awards season (2011/12) has been most kind for Jean Durjardin, following his star making performance in The Artist. It’s a wonderful film and a […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Bad Boys, 1995. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Joe Pantoliano and Theresa Randle. Bad Boys is the directorial debut of Michael Bay and since the majority of his films have the same shots […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… This weeks ‘quote’ is very short, from Edgar Wright, on Twitter… Received this in the mail. What can it mean? twitpic.com/9hnn6t — edgarwright (@edgarwright) May 5, 2012 There is no full article to read on this, despite a little coverage on /Film. Avengers Assemble has made over $200m […]

J. Edgar, 2011. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench and Naomi Watts. SYNOPSIS: The story of J. Edgar Hoover, who was the founder and head of the FBI for almost fifty years. The man with everyone else’s secrets must make sure his own aren’t revealed, otherwise everything he has worked […]

Go to Blazes, 1962. Directed by Michael Truman. Starring Dave King, Robert Morley, Norman Rossington, Daniel Massey, Dennis Price, Maggie Smith and David Lodge. SYNOPSIS: Three robbers plan a heist using a fire engine as a getaway vehicle, but their scheme begins to unravel when they are mistaken for real firemen. British cinema has had […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Being John Malkovich, 1999. Directed by Spike Jonze. Starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener and John Malkovich. Being John Malkovich is a black comedy-fantasy from the mind of Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. The film received […]

Simon Moore reviews the fifth episode of the Napoleon Dynamite animated series… Some things are so smacked-out stone-cold crazy they simply have to be real. No, not The X Factor. I still insist that’s a mass hallucination we can’t wake up from. I refer instead to the Annual Preston Bed Races. This is simply one […]

The Brigand of Kandahar, 1965. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont, Yvonne Romain and Katherine Woodville. SYNOPSIS: A mixed race lieutenant joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen in an offensive against the British forces in India. Afghanistan’s a tough one. Hard to know what to make of it all, whichever way […]