The crowdfunding website Kickstarter made headlines recently thanks to a record-breaking campaign to raise financing for a movie version of the television series Veronica Mars, which has seemingly alerted Hollywood producers to this new – and potentially lucrative – source of funding. One filmmaker who has flirted with the idea of crowdfunding is Kevin Smith, […]

Oliver Davis reviews the second episode of Game of Thrones Season Three…. Dark Wings, Dark Words.Directed by Daniel Minahan. Written by Vanessa Taylor. BranThis week’s Game of Thrones opened with Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright). He’s hit puberty since season two, and bears all the typical signs. His voice is deeper, his features a tad more pronounced, […]

Dead End Drive-In, 1986. Directed by Brian Trenchard-SmithStarring Ned Manning, Natalie McCurry, Peter Whitford, Wilbur Wild and Dave Gibson. SYNOPSIS: In an apocalyptic future where crimes rates have spiralled out of control and the economy has permanently collapsed, those in charge have found a perfect solution to the rise of lawlessness… Lock away the undesirables, […]

Zaytoun, 2012. Directed by Eran Riklis.Starring Stephen Forff, Alice Taglioni, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman and Abdallah El Akal. SYNOPSIS: Set in 1982, an Israeli fighter pilot, Yoni, gets shot down over Lebanon and subsequently kidnapped by a group of refugee Palestinians. After making his escape, Yoni attempts to make his way back home, and along […]

Not only will Hugh Jackman be bearing his claws as Wolverine again this summer for the sixth time, but we’ll also be seeing him in a seventh outing next year in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Jackman was speaking to Entertainment Weekly when the subject of playing Logan again came up. It seems […]

The Echo, 2008. Directed by Yam Laranas. Starring Jesse Bradford, Kevin Durand and Amelia Warner. SYNOPSIS: Bobby Walker (Jesse Bradford) is fresh out of prison and living in his dead mother’s apartment as a condition of his parole. Plagued by eerie echoes of the dead trapped in the building, Bobby’s terror mounts as he begins […]

Mayday, 2013. Created by Ben Court and Caroline Ip.Starring Peter Firth, Peter McDonald, Leila Mimmack, Aidan Gillen, Sophie Okenedo, Lesley Manville, Max Fowler, Tom Fisher and Sam Spruell. SYNOPSIS: As a small community celebrates May Day, 14-year-old May Queen Hattie disappears. The BBC’s recent five-part thriller Mayday, shown on consecutive nights over one week last […]

Scanners: The Complete Collection DVD Box Set Scanners, 1981. Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane and Charles Shamata. Scanners, for those who have not seen it – which was me – is a horror film which plays like a thriller, making for an interesting angle. The film wasn’t […]

Throughout April, we’re counting down to the release of Marvel’s Iron Man 3 with our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s #19… Superman II, 1980. Directed by Richard Lester.Starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Jack O’Halloran, Sarah Douglas, Valerie Perrine, Susannah York, Jackie Cooper, Marc […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the season 3 finale of The Walking Dead… Season 2 of The Walking Dead was saved by its finale, and the expectations for the third season are expectedly high. Major spoilers follow… We know the anger swelling up inside the Governor and our first shot of “Welcome to the Tombs” is his […]