When Ben Affleck was announced as playing The Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the Internet virtually exploded, with opinions ranging from those who felt that it’s the worst thing to happen to the character since bat nipples, to those who simply said that Affleck was “the bomb in Phantoms.” […]

Wolf Creek 2, 2013. Directed by Greg Mclean. Starring John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn, Philippe Klaus, Shane Connor, Ben Gerrard, Gerard Kennedy and Annie Byron. SYNOPSIS: Pig-hunter Mick Taylor is back! Still terrorising the unsuspecting Outback visitors that cross his path. Can his latest prey escape? Some of you will be very pleased to […]

Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013. Written and Directed by Jim Jarmusch. Starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Jeffrey Wright. SYNOPSIS: A depressed musician reunites with his lover, though their romance – which has already endured several centuries – is disrupted by the arrival of uncontrollable younger sister. Christopher Marlowe, […]

The Two Faces of January, 2014. Directed by Hossein Amini. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective. Imbibing the feel and tone of Hitchcockian […]

Thomas Roach with five Marvel characters who should get their own Netflix TV series…. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is expanding fast with not just films being released each year but now shows on television. Next year we are set for two movies – Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man – but also we will be […]

Chalk this one up squarely as a rumour – especially considering its source is the UK tabloid The Sun – but it seems that Daniel Craig (Skyfall) may have shot a secret cameo appearance in Star Wars: Episode VII. Craig reportedly begged director J.J. Abrams for a role in the hotly-anticipated sequel, saying that he’d […]

Phoenix, 2014. Directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, and Imogen Kogge. SYNOPSIS: A concentration-camp survivor searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. A car reaches a checkpoint guarded by American soldiers one of whom demands that the passenger remove the bandages wrapped around her face; upon […]

A Second Chance (En chance til), 2014. Directed by Susanne Bier. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Maria Bonnevie, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Lykke May Andersen. SYNOPSIS: A veteran police officer with a wife and new baby makes a fateful decision when he is brought back into contact with a pair of junkie parents. A middle class couple […]

Beats of the Antonov, 2014. Directed by Hajooj Kuka. SYNOPSIS: Sudanese farmers, herders and rebels of the Blue Nile and Nuba Mountain regions defiantly celebrate their heritage and tend their lands in the face of a government bombing campaign. Amongst the civil war which has ravaged Sudan since 2011, the civilian population keep their spirits alive […]

Elephant Song (La chanson de l’éléphant), 2014. Directed by Charles Binamé. Starring Bruce Greenwood, Xavier Dolan, Catherine Keener, Carrie-Anne Moss, Guy Nadon, and Colm Feore. SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague. A young boy seeks out his mother who is a […]