The Patrol, 2013. Written and Directed by Tom Petch. Starring Owain Arthur, Nicholas Beveney, Daniel Fraser, Alex McNally, Oliver Mott, Ben Righton and Nav Sidhu. SYNOPSIS: When a Special Forces Operation prompts a Taliban counter attack in Helmand Province, the unit’s three-day patrol hits double figures. Faced with low ammunition, injury and rising tensions under […]
Movie Review – Leave The World Behind (2014)
Leave The World Behind, 2014. Directed by Christian Larson. Starring Axel Hedfors, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello. SYNOPSIS: A documentary from Christian Larson following Swedish House Mafia on ‘One Last Tour’ before the band split up as they had previously announced. Like John Travolta, I got chills and they’re multiplying. It was not the sight of Olivia […]
Simon Kinberg promises a “realistic, gritty and grounded” tone for The Fantastic Four
Writer-producer Simon Kinberg was at WonderCon in Anaheim yesterday to talk about the upcoming mutant superhero sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past, but with Fox’s reboot The Fantastic Four due to kick off production this month, he also offered up a few words about the studio and director Josh Trank’s (Chronicle) plans for Marvel’s First […]
Brosnan Can Be Proud of His 007
Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… This week had a free-for-all on Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond after he, himself, revealed it wasn’t “good enough”. Horatio Harrod conducted the interview for The Telegraph… “His feelings towards the role are equivocal. “I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean,” […]
Marc Webb discusses a major spoiler from The Amazing Spider-Man 2
If you’re yet to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and really don’t want to be spoiled, then you ought to stop reading and turn back now. Seriously. Major spoilers follow. You have been warned… Well, after a couple of years of rampant speculation, and a marketing campaign that pretty much gave it away anyway, Sony […]
Quentin Tarantino rewriting The Hateful Eight
Back in January, a depressed Quentin Tarantino announced that he’d decided to shelve his next project The Hateful Eight after the script for the Western leaked online. Well, it seems he may not have given up on the project after all, with the director revealing last night at a live script read in Los Angeles […]
Interview: Tom Petch, writer-director of The Patrol
Villordsutch chats to Tom Petch, writer-director of The Patrol… Tom Petch is both writer and director of The Patrol (Soda Pictures), which follows a physically and mentally exhausted British Patrol in Afghanistan as both ammunition and morale run dangerously low. Tom himself spent 8 years within the British armed forces and later the Special Forces, […]
Movie Review – Afternoon Delight (2013)
Afternoon Delight, 2013. Directed by Jill Soloway. Starring Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor and Jane Lynch. SYNOPSIS: Bored and listless housewife Rachel visits a lap-dancing club to help spice up her marriage and connects with a stripper that she invites into her home as a live-in nanny, with surprising consequences. Go on, you can […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe overtakes James Bond to become second-highest grossing franchise of all time
With the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Marvel Studios’ Cinematic Universe has already become the highest-grossing franchise of all time in North America, and with the Phase Two sequel now pushing its worldwide total beyond $586 million, the MCU has surpassed the global haul of James Bond franchise ($6.198 billion) to become the […]
Terrahawks returning with Big Finish
Today Anderson Entertainment (founded by the late great Gerry Anderson MBE) announced that Terrahawks, Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr’s 1983 cult TV series, would be making its return with production company and publisher Big Finish for eight brand new audio episodes. Big Finish is best known for their audio adaptations of cult hits like Doctor Who and Blake’s […]