Skyfall, 2012. Directed by Sam Mendes.Starring Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Albert Finney, Bérénice Marlohe, Rory Kinnear, Helen McCrory, Ola Rapace and Ben Wishaw. SYNOPSIS: After a botched mission in Turkey, James Bond (Craig) is assumed dead. Meanwhile, back in London, M (Dench) struggles with a terrorist hacker who brings […]

The Hunt (Denmark: Jagten), 2012. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg.Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Alexandra Rapaport, Lars Ranthe, Thomas Bo Larsen, Anne Louise Hassing, Susse Wold and Ole Dupont. SYNOPSIS: A kindergarten teacher is accused of sexually abusing a young girl. His world completely falls apart as he struggles to prove himself innocent. The Hunt, starring Mads Mikkelsen, […]

Robot & Frank , 2012. Directed by Jake Schreier.Starring Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard, James Marsden and Liv Tyler. SYNOPSIS: An ex-jewel thief is given a robot butler as a gift by his son and soon returns to his criminal ways as the two companions try their luck as a heist team. A few […]

Antiviral, 2012. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg.Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell, Douglas Smith, Joe Pingue and Nicholas Campbell. SYNOPSIS: In a celebrity obsessed future, a company sells viruses that have been harvested from celebrities. However, when an employee becomes infected with a lethal disease, he faces a race against the clock in order […]

Room 237, 2012. Directed by Rodney Ascher. SYNOPSIS: A documentary examining the enduring legacy of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and the weird and wonderful theories related to the film’s subtexts that have arisen since its release. Famously, Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror classic The Shining did not enjoy a terrific reception upon its release back in […]

Despite mixed reviews, there’s little doubt that Ridley Scott’s hotly-anticipated return to the sci-fi genre delivered the goods in terms of box office for 20th Century Fox, with the divisive Prometheus banking over $400 million world-wide. With those sort of returns, you can rest assured that the studio will be keen for Scott to push […]

Piers McCarthy reports on the BFI London Film Festival press conference for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie… As conference moderator Chris Hewitt pointed out, Tim Burton is a beloved adopted Londoner. It seems only fair that after embracing the U.K’s capital as his home and bringing a heap of work to the British film industry that Burton […]

Here and There (Aquí y allá), 2012. Written and Directed by Antonio Mendez Esparza.Starring Pedro De los Santos, Teresa Ramírez Aguirre, Heidi Laura Solano Espinoza, Néstor Tepetate Medina, Noel Payno Vendíz, Carolina Prado Ángel, Nicolás Parra Quiroz and Lorena Guadalupe Pantaleón Vázquez. SYNOPSIS: A man travels back to his home in Mexico after working in […]

Part one of an updated two volume series titled Cinemas of the Other, A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey explores what it is like to produce movies in two countries where government censorship is driven by politics and religious beliefs.  To give readers a firsthand account, author Gönül Dönmez-Colin has included interview […]

Martin Deer on the latest issue of Batman… Spoiler Warning: Plot points will be discussed. Suspenseful. Gripping. Terrifying. Incredible. All of the words above could be used to describe the latest issue of Batman from Scott Snyder, plus many many more if my grey cells had the sharpness of Greg Capullo’s art and my vocabulary […]