Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… In previous Page and Screens I’ve referred to the book How Fiction Works by James Wood. Last night, after returning home from seeing Beginners, I immediately plucked it off the shelf. Despite all the quirkiness of Mike Mills’s indie rom com, trying so hard to […]

Apple co-founder and former Pixar Animation Studios chief executive Steve Jobs passed away yesterday after losing a long battle with pancreatic cancer, aged 56. Born in San Francisco, California in 1955, Jobs went on to become one of the most successful entreprenuers of the digital age after forming Apple, Inc. in the mid-1970s, and was […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood in the third of a five-part feature (read parts one and two)… “You’ve got to keep stretching out and trying other stuff,” observed actor and director Clint Eastwood. “I could have chosen a lot of scripts that were different than Bronco Billy [1980], that were […]

It’s been rumoured for quite some time that Warner Bros. were cooking up a new small-screen animated Batman series to debut sometime after the arrival of Christopher Nolan’s final theatrical effort, The Dark Knight Rises, and now WB Animation exec Sam Register has officially revealed details of the project during his keynote speech at the […]

The Bang Bang Club, 2010. Directed by Steven Silver. Starring Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Frank Rautenbach, Neels Van Jaarsveld and Ashley Mulheron. SYNOPSIS: Four combat photographers in the early 1990s capture the atrocities of apartheid in South Africa on camera whilst risking their lives to get the all-important shots to show the world […]

Rio Breaks, 2009. Directed by Justin Mitchell. SYNOPSIS: Two best friends look to escape the poverty and violence of the slums of Rio de Janeiro by taking to the waves with dreams of becoming professional surfers. First of all, I should probably confess that I have very little knowledge about surfing and my familiarity with […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Marvel Studios stepped up the publicity campaign for next year’s superhero team-up as The Avengers took over Entertainment Weekly, giving us our first proper look at Joss Whedon’s versions of Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain […]

According to a report from Variety, Warner Bros. are looking to push on with their plans for a cinematic revival of the classic TV anthology series The Twilight Zone, with the studio said to be mulling over a shortlist of three potential A-list directors in Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises), Michael Bay (Transformers: Dark […]

Bronson, 2008. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Matt King, James Lance, Amanda Burton and Jonathan Phillips. SYNOPSIS: An artistic biopic of Michael Peterson, a.k.a. Charles Bronson, the man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a Post Office, but over 30 years on remains behind bars for […]

The Dead List, (a.k.a. Ultimate Heist, a.k.a. Inside Ring), 2009. Directed by Laurent Tuel. Starring Jean Reno, Gaspard Ulliel, Sami Bouajila and Vahina Giocante. SYNOPSIS: The son of a gangster looks to escape the family business as rival mobsters and federal agents close in on his father’s empire. Jean Reno will forever be known for […]