D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Enduring Love, 2004. Directed by Roger Michell. Starring Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Bill Nighy and Susan Lynch. Enduring Love is based upon the Ian McEwan novel and follows the story of how two strangers become entangled in […]

Love on a Pillow (France: Le repos de guerrier), 1962. Directed by Roger Vadim. Starring Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Jean-Marc Bory and Michel Serrault. SYNOPSIS: A woman rescues a suicidal man and then develops feelings for him. Love on a Pillow introduces us to the upper-class Parisian Geneviève Le Theil (Brigitte Bardot), a seemingly feisty […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Dark Knight, 2008. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman. The Dark Knight is the second installment in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and sees the […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Vanessa Thorpe, for The Guardian, writes today (Sunday, March 4th) about a change to what cinemas show: “Tomorrow, the Royal Opera House will release its new feature film, Madam Butterfly 3D, and the team behind the production argue it is not just a cheaper option for opera fans, […]

The Deadly Spawn, 1983. Directed by Douglas McKeown. Starring Tom DeFranco, Charles George Hildebrandt, Ethel Michelson and John Schmerling. SYNOPSIS: A crashed meteorite brings hostile alien life to Earth. The Deadly Spawn is upfront about its inspirations, taking lead from and citing monster movies from the 1950s such as The Thing from Another World (1951), […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Pulp Fiction, 1994. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis. Pulp Fiction is the dazzling, highly-stylised and […]

(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’. […]