The Conversation, 1974. Written and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth MacRae, Teri Garr and Harrison Ford. SYNOPSIS: During a routine wire-tapping job, a surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when comes to suspect that the couple he is recording will […]

360, 2011. Directed by Fernando Meirelles. Starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, Lucia Siposová, Ben Foster, Vladimir Vdovichenkov and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: A look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in physical relationships. 360 is a fitting opening night movie for a prestigious international film festival such as LFF. Featuring […]

Like baking a cake, The Expendables 2 will be an amalgamation of many ingredients, coming together in (hopefully) blissful union. The first film was a slightly less complex recipe, with plenty of dashes and pinches here and there to please the action cinephiles. Like some cakes, it sank a little, but still tasted sweet enough. […]

The Bang Bang Club, 2010. Directed by Steven Silver. Starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Ashley Mulheron. SYNOPSIS: Four combat photographers in the early 1990s capture the atrocities of apartheid in South Africa on camera whilst risking their lives to get the all-important shots to show the world […]

Sean Guard calls for quiet in the multiplexes… I’m sure it’s all happened to us. You finally find some spare time to take in a movie. You check your local listings, find someone to go with, arrive at the theater, empty half of your savings account for two tickets, locate the theater playing your film, […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… A Fistful of Dollars, 1964. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood. A Fistful of Dollars is the first in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western ‘Dollars’ trilogy and introduces us to the ‘Man with No Name’ (Eastwood). On his arrival […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Unforgiven, 1992. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett and Saul Rubinek. Unforgiven is the magnificent and dark story of William Munny (Eastwood) returning to his old ways as a gunslinger […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the season four finale of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood – “And When I Die”… My fellow fans of one of the better HBO original series, I write to you this time with a shocked and rather saddened demeanor. If you’ve been following my re-caps of the […]

The Academy Award-winning actor and screen veteran Cliff Robertson passed away yesterday from natural causes at Stony Brook University Medical Center, just one day after celebrating his 88th birthday. Beginning his acting career in the 1950s, Robertson made a number of film and television appearances such as Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers (1953-1954), Picnic […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood – “Soul of Fire”… All of the several major story-lines in this epic season have dwindled down into about only two. The first one being the battle, more like war, between the vampires and the witches. Led by […]