Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Germain Lussier writes for /Film about the replacement of David Arnold on the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall: “To be honest, I couldn’t pick one of Arnold’s Bond scores from the other (I’m more of fan of his Roland Emmerich collaborations) and, usually, most of the Bond music news […]

Beautiful Lies, 2010. Directed by Pierre Salvadori. Starring Audrey Tautou, Nathalie Baye and Sami Bouajila. SYNOPSIS: Audrey Tautou stars in this witty French comedy about love and lies. Tautou’s character Émilie Dandrieux receives a passionate love letter from a secret admirer who is also her fellow co-worker at her hair salon, she then copies the […]

Margin Call, 2011. Directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci. SYNOPSIS: During the first twenty-four hours of the worldwide financial crisis, key members of one large investment bank try to stop their world from imploding. Margin Call, a film based on what happens at one international […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Carlito’s Way, 1993. Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn and Penelope Ann Miller. Brian De Palma’s crime film Carlito’s Way is based upon two novels, one of the same name and it’s sequel After Hours, […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Heat, 1995. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Dennis Haysbert, William Fichtner, Natalie Portman, Danny Trejo and Jeremy Piven. Heat is […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… He Got Game, 1998. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Jim Brown and John Turturro. He Got Game is a sports film with a difference! The story follows Jesus Shuttlesworth (Allen), the […]

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, 2011. Directed by Bill Condon. Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Nikki Reed, Kellan Lutz, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Julia Jones, Billy Burke, Maggie Grace and Michael Sheen. SYNOPSIS: The newly-wed Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen find themselves contending with a […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… In America, 2002. Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton and Djimon Hounsou. In America is the beautiful story of an Irish family who enter America on a tourist visa, but plan to settle and make New […]

Flamboyant British filmmaker Ken Russell has passed away in his sleep on Sunday evening, aged 84. Born in Southampton in 1927, Russell started his career in the industry as a photographer and independent documentary filmmaker after spells in the Merchant Navy and Royal Air Force. His attention turned to the small screen in 1959 when […]

Magic Trip, 2011. Directed by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood. SYNOPSIS: A documentary following famed author Ken Kesey and ‘The Merry Band of Pranksters’ on their acid-fuelled cross-country road trip across America to the 1964 New York World’s Fair. This documentary of novelist Ken Kesey (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) and his band of […]