Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Xan Brooks writes for The Guardian on 19th January about the audience members who demanded a refund (!!!) after realising that The Artist was a silent film: “Stories like this are reliable broadsheet catnip, because they make us feel so superior to those cultural illiterates who don’t read […]
Movie Review – Moneyball (2011)
Moneyball, 2011.Directed by Bennett Miller. Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright.SYNOPSIS: Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) atempts to put together a successful baseball team by employing computer generated analysis to draft his players.Can you really make a movie about all the stuff that goes on behind the […]
Movie Review – Haywire (2011)
Haywire, 2011. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum, Bill Paxton, Antonio Banderas, Michael Angarano and Michael Douglas. SYNOPSIS: After being double-crossed on her last mission, a female black ops soldier seeks revenge. Steven Soderbergh is many things. He is one of the most pioneering directors of digital filmmaking […]
The Week in Spandex – The Dark Knight Rises, Beware the Batman, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Ghost Rider and more…
Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… As the comedian W.C. Fields once said, “Never work with children or animals,” and The Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan will have found some truth in that this past week as young actress Joey King revealed what probably […]
Movie Review – Abduction (2011)
Abduction, 2011. Directed by John Singleton. Starring Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello, Michael Nyqvist, and Alfred Molina. SYNOPSIS: A youth discovers that the people who raised him aren’t his real parents, a revalation that leaves him running for his life. Abduction is the one of the worst movies I’ve ever […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #50 – Black Hawk Down (2001)
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 […]
Thoughts on… M (1931)
M, Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, 1931. Directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre and Otto Wernicke. SYNOPSIS: In early 1930s Berlin a child killer is on the loose. The police and the local gangsters both independently vow to track him down. Despite being quite a prolific director, Fritz Lang is a name associated primarily […]
Movie Review – J. Edgar (2011)
J. Edgar, 2011. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Judi Dench and Naomi Watts. SYNOPSIS: The story of J. Edgar Hoover, who was the founder and head of the FBI for almost fifty years. The man with everyone else’s secrets must make sure his own aren’t revealed, otherwise everything he has worked […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #49 – 127 Hours (2010)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… 127 Hours, 2010. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring James Franco. Danny Boyle followed up his multi Oscar winning box office smash Slumdog Millionaire with a film that continued his indie roots. I’m sure many offers came flooding in for […]
George Lucas retires from blockbusters as his Star Wars 3D pension fund gets set to mature
In an interview with The New York Times Magazine, Star Wars and Indiana Jones creator George Lucas has announced that he has decided to quit big-budget Hollywood blockbusters in favour of smaller, more experimental projects similar to those he was involved in before the arrival of his epic space fantasy back in 1977. According to […]
