Sean Guard asks you to choose your side… The grand New Year is nearly upon us, (Yay, Joy, Rapture, etc.), so everyone is of course resolutioning this and promising that once the clock strokes the ball-dropping tone of midnight. For those of us in tune with our favorite shows, I’m sure there are plenty that […]
The ten most pirated movies of 2011
Earlier this week TorrentFreak revealed the ten most pirated movies of 2011 through file-sharing software BitTorrent – a list that was topped by the most recent installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five, which suffered a total of 9,260,000 illegal downloads since its release in April. The list throws up a few […]
Movie Review – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, 2011. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Joely Richardson, Goran Visnjic and Geraldine James. SYNOPSIS: A magazine journalist and a troubled computer hacker team up to search for a woman who has been missing for forty years. Ah, […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #34 – Black Swan (2010)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Black Swan, 2010. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel and Barbara Hershey. Black Swan is another dark tale from director Darren Aronofsky and again deals with obsession and self-destruction. This time out Aronofsky has […]
Working with Clint: Michael Owens talks about Clint Eastwood
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-nominated visual effects supervisor Michael Owens about his collaborations with Clint Eastwood… “Space Cowboys [2000] was my first experience with Clint [Eastwood]. We got along great and it worked out very well,’ recalls Michael Owens who has become the visual effects supervisor of choice for the Hollywood legend. “Clint let […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #33 – Raging Bull (1980)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Raging Bull, 1980. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty. Raging Bull is one of the greatest films of all time and is an absolute classic in film history. Scorsese’s biographical masterpiece follows […]
Movie Review – Puss in Boots (2011)
Puss in Boots, 2011. Directed by Chris Miller. Featuring the voice talents of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris, Constance Marie and Guillermo del Toro. SYNOPSIS: The heroic Puss in Boots is pitted against the outlaws Jack and Jill, who have discoved an ancient power that threatens the world. As […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #32 – The Business (2005)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Business, 2005. Directed by Nick Love. Starring Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan. The Business is a slick gangster flick from Nick Love that tells the story of a young lad, Frankie (Dyer), who flees the UK and ends […]
The biggest cinematic turkeys of 2011
Despite Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides all breaking the $1 billion mark at the global box office, 2011 hasn’t exactly been the best of years for Hollywood studios. According to a report from The New York Times, box office […]
Blu-ray Review – Kill List (2011)
Kill List, 2011. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring, Emma Fryer and Harry Simpson. SYNOPSIS: A hitman takes on a new contract, leading him deep into the heart of darkness. Following its world premiere at SXSW earlier this year, British filmmaker Ben Wheatley’s (Down Terrace) second feature, Kill List, has […]
