(500) Days of Summer, 2009. Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel and Chloë Grace Moretz. SYNOPSIS: A young man falls for a woman who is skeptical about the existence of love. Director Marc Webb’s feature film debut (500) Days of Summer is a romantic comedy – but before you go running to […]

Tom Jolliffe presents a selection of the action genre’s greatest douchebags… Cinema has created many wonderful characters over the years. We’ve had classic heroes, and the most heinous of villains. Heroes and villains are particularly paramount in the action genre. There’s also another type of character: The Douchebag. These would be the whiny, sniveling, low […]

300 producer Mark Canton’s testosterone-fest The Tomb has found its bad guy, JoBlo are reporting, and it’s none other than Christ himself, Jim Caviezel. He’ll be providing the foil to the fearsome Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sylvester Stallone combo, who are playing against type as Ray Breslin and Church, hard-men inmates attempting to escape from a […]

Demons Never Die, 2011. Directed by Arjun Rose. Starring Robert Sheehan, Ashley Walters and Tulisa Contostavlos. SYNOPSIS: A group of troubled teens make a suicide pact after a classmate takes her own life. But all is not what it seems. The best way to describe Demons Never Die is to call it an ‘urban horror’. […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Jane Mulkerrins interviewed Dustin Hoffman for The Telegraph, regarding his new television series, Luck… “This transfer of some of film’s greatest talents to the small screen – Martin Scorsese directing HBO’s Boardwalk Empire; the likes of Al Pacino, Julianne Moore, and now Hoffman taking on TV roles – […]

The Muppets, 2011. Directed by James Bobin. Starring Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones.Featuring the voice talents of Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz, Peter Linz, David Rudman, Bill Barretta, Matt Vogel and Tyler Bunch. SYNOPSIS: The Muppets reunite to save the old Muppet Theater from an evil oil tycoon. For sheer […]

Xtro, 1983. Directed by Harry Bromley Davenport. Starring Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam d’Abo and Simon Nash. SYNOPSIS: A father is abducted by aliens and returns to Earth three years later to try and reconnect with his family. The release and subsequent success of Alien (1979) seemingly opened the door to mind-altering tales […]

Steven Spielberg (War Horse, Schindler’s List) is close to signing on to direct a Braveheart-esque version of the story of Moses for Warner Bros. The film, which has a working title of Gods and Kings, will include him forming an army, freeing the Hebrew slaves, wandering in the wilderness, receiving the Ten Commandments and parting […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Hurt Locker, 2009. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse and Guy Pearce. The Hurt Locker is the gritty tale of a three-man bomb disposal team […]

Carnage, 2011. Directed by Roman Polanski. Starring Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. SYNOPSIS: Two sets of parents meet to discuss the matter of one child assaulting another. Things steadily go from bad to worse. Everything about Carnage is quite simple, both the plusses and minuses. I know it’s early in […]