Members of the classic comedy group Monty Python have lent their voices to a new 3D animated film based on the memoirs of the late Graham Chapman. A Liar’s Autobiography, published in 1980, was a deliberately fanciful account of his life and a taped reading by Chapman will be used, along with animation and added […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular US vampire series True Blood, ‘She’s Not There’… So Sookie is a fairy or fae or whatever you want to call her. Just don’t call her unattractive because that she is still not. She gets a chance to visit what I call “Fairyland” […]

The Emmy Award-winning actor Peter Falk has passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 83. Although no cause of death has been released, the screen veteran, who was best known for his portrayal as the TV detective Columbo, had been battling dementia and Alzheimer’s disease for some time. Born in New York […]

D.J. Haza presents the final entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Top Gun, 1986. Directed by Tony Scott. Starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside and Meg Ryan. Top Gun is possibly the coolest film ever made. It has the coolest characters – fighter […]

After making his animated debut last year with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg is set to follow up the historical drama double bill of War Horse and Lincoln by returning to the sci-fi genre for an adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s technological thriller Robopocalypse. According to Deadline, […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood, ‘If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin?’… Another good episode. Seems season four is going for the record of most great episodes in a row. I know many True Blood fans feel that all of the episodes […]

We were promised that he’d return and now Deadline have confirmed that Danny Trejo’s former Mexican Federale will be back, with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez signing a deal with producer Alexander Rodnyansky to develop Machete Kills – the sequel to 2010’s Grindhouse spin-off Machete and the second instalment in a planned trilogy that will presumably conclude […]

Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular US vampire series True Blood, “I’m Alive and On Fire”… This week’s episode continues to have Eric being a “nice” guy but also somewhat delusional after draining and killing Sookie’s fairy-godmother. She enlists the help of Alcide to find him after he runs […]

Jon Dudley compares Hollywood to the British film industry… “…the American hegemony over cinema in Britain has frequently been blamed for preventing the development of an authentically indigenous cinema” – Tom Ryall American films have dominated global cinema for many decades now. Such is the high number of Hollywood productions being shown in cinemas across […]

It has been announced that Ian McKellen (X-Men, Lord of the Rings), Judi Dench (Casino Royale), Mark Williams (Harry Potter) and Gillian Anderson (The X Files) are all attached to star in a zombie comedy set in the 18th century. The Curse of the Buxom Strumpet is about the inhabitants of a small seaside town […]