Mirror Mirror: The Untold Adventures of Snow White, 2012. Directed by Tarsem Singh. Starring Lily Collins, Julia Roberts and Armie Hammer. SYNOPSIS: An evil queen has taken control of the Kingdom away from Snow White, its rightful heir. She must enlist the help of seven bandit dwarves and a dashing prince to win it back. […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… A Beautiful Mind, 2001. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer and Josh Lucas. A Beautiful Mind is the stunning story of John Nash (Crowe), a Nobel Laureate in Economics, who […]

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 […]