D.J. Haza presents the fiftieth entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Black Hawk Down, 2001. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Josh Hartnett, Eric Bana, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Sam Shepard, Ewen Bremner, Gabriel Casseus, Hugh Dancy, Ioan Gruffudd, Jason Isaacs, Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy and Matthew Marsden. Black […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Miller’s Crossing, 1990. Written and Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito and Steve Buscemi. Miller’s Crossing is the prohibition-era gangster film from the Coen brothers that […]

As of this morning James Cameron is a mere $6 million away from smashing his own twelve year record at the peak of the all-time global box-office chart, with 3D motion capture epic Avatar set to overtake Titanic’s mighty haul of $1.842 billion. It truly is testament to the man’s film-making genius that Cameron has […]

Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning British actress Jean Simmons has passed away yesterday Friday 22nd January aged 80. Born in London in 1929, Simmons made her screen debut alongside Margaret Lockwood in Give Us The Moon (1944) before working with legendary directors David Lean (Great Expectations, 1946) and Laurence Olivier (Hamlet, 1948). Her work […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Forrest Gump, 1994. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field and Haley Joel Osment. Forrest Gump is the multi Oscar-winning epic comedy-drama romance based on Winston Groom’s novel of the same […]

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, 2006. Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman. SYNOPSIS: The 1980 classic is reedited to its original director’s vision. Having heard of this film’s very existence when it was released in 2006, I found myself longing to own a copy of it. A fan […]

Jon Dudley explores the notion of national cinema… Although cinema is a worldwide spectacle that can be enjoyed by billions of people, there seems to be a way to define a films origins and values, and who or where it represents. It would be all too easy to walk into any cinema and identify the […]

Actress passes away aged 32… Brittany Murphy has died of natural causes in Los Angeles yesterday, Sunday 20th December. The 32 year old actress reportedly went into cardiac arrest at her home and was taken to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre near Beverly Hills where she was pronounced dead on arrival. She is survived by her […]

Alien writer passes away aged 63… Hollywood screenwriter Dan O’Bannon has died yesterday 17th December in Los Angeles after a short illness. A former USC graduate alongside director John Carpenter, the pair collaborated on Carpenter’s 1974 debut Dark Star (with O’Bannon co-writing, editing, working on the visual effects and production design, and appearing on screen) […]

The Dam Busters actor dies aged 90… Dublin-born actor Richard Todd has died peacefully in his sleep yesterday 3rd December after battling with cancer. The star began his career on stage in the late 1930’s before serving as an officer in World War II as part of the British 6th Airborne Division, becoming one of […]