R.I.P.D., 2013. Directed by Robert Schwentke.Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jeff Bridges, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Bacon, Stephanie Szostak, James Hong, and Marisa Miller. SYNOPSIS: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Will Smith plays a young, idealistic […]
Special Features – Does anyone care about The Fifth Estate?
Anghus Houvouras asks whether anyone cares about The Fifth Estate…. There was a day and age where breaches of trust perpetrated by Governments believing themselves to be above the law would have felt more like fiction than fact. The kind of stuff you’d find in a Tom Clancy novel or the plot to the latest […]
Breaking Bad to watch Game of Thrones
Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Christopher Williams, for The Telegraph, covers Kevin Spacey’s comments at The Edinburgh International Television Festival… “The actor said giving viewers more choice and control over how they consume films would mean there would be less incentive to unlawfully download them for free. … He said: ‘Why is Game […]
Movie Review – Clear History (2013)
Clear History, 2013. Directed by Greg Mottola.Starring Larry David, Bill Hader, Philip Baker Hall, Jon Hamm, Kate Hudson, Michael Keaton, Danny McBride, Eva Mendes, Amy Ryan, J.B. Smoove and Amy Landecker. SYNOPSIS: A disgraced former marketing executive plots revenge against his former boss, who made billions from the electric car company they started. For fans […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 Review – Haunter (2013)
Haunter, 2013.Directed by Vincenzo Natali.Starring Abigail Breslin, Sarah Manninen, David Hewlett, Stephen McHattie, Michelle Nolden, and Peter Outerbridge. SYNOPSIS: The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate. From the writer and director of Splice comes Haunter, […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 Review – V/H/S/2 (2013)
V/H/S/2, 2013. Directed by Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto and Adam Wingard.Starring Lawrence Michael Levine, Kelsy Abbott, L.C. Holt, Simon Barrett, Mindy Robinson, Adam Wingard, Hannah Hughes, John T. Woods, Brian Udovich, Casey Adams, Jay Saunders and Bette Cassatt. SYNOPSIS: Searching for a missing student, two private investigators […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 Review – Hatchet III (2013)
Hatchet III, 2013. Directed by BJ McDonnell.Starring Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Derek Mears, Cody Blue Snider, and Rileah Vanderbilt. SYNOPSIS: A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 Review – Dementamania (2013)
Dementamania, 2013. Directed by Kit Ryan.Starring Kal Penn, Vincent Regan, Geoff Bell, John Thomson, Holly Weston, and Robert van Twillert. SYNOPSIS: A frustrated office worker finds himself caught between the realms of his deranged imagination and the mundane reality of his everyday existence. Given its strange title and slightly off-kilter premise (it was promised as […]
The Week in Spandex – Batfleck vs. Superman, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow, Phase Three and more
Our weekly round up of the latest stories from the world of screen superheroes, including Batman vs. Superman, Man of Steel, Arrow, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agent Carter, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The […]
Second Opinion – Elysium (2013)
Elysium, 2013. Directed by Neill Blomkamp.Starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, and William Fichtner. SYNOPSIS: Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that […]