With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the previous entry here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE Although the Battle of Yavin doesn’t quite match up to the ground-based warfare of The Empire Strikes Back (see here), […]
Memorable Star Wars Moments #3 – The Battle of Hoth
With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the previous entry here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE V – THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Despite having all the fancy CG tools in the world at his disposal for the Prequel Trilogy, George Lucas […]
Review Blood: True Blood Recap 4.11 – “Soul of Fire”
Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the latest episode of the popular U.S. vampire series True Blood – “Soul of Fire”… All of the several major story-lines in this epic season have dwindled down into about only two. The first one being the battle, more like war, between the vampires and the witches. Led by […]
Tony Kaye finally set to follow up American History X as Detachment secures distribution
After falling out with just about everyone in Hollywood off the back of star Edward Norton’s re-editing of American History X, director Tony Kaye has found it mighty difficult to follow up his acclaimed feature film debut. However, it looks as if the British filmmaker is finally set for a breakthrough with the announcement today […]
Memorable Star Wars Moments #4 – “I was once a Jedi Knight the same as your father”
With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the previous entry here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE “The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds […]
Movie Review – Points of Interest (2011)
Points of Interest, 2011. Directed by Anthony Lopez and Jon Salimes. SYNOPSIS: In the summer of 2010, a group of filmmakers accompanied the bands Juniper Tar and Strand of Oaks on a 10-day tour of the American East Coast. This film is the result of what happened; as best they remember it. How do I […]
DVD Review – 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
8 Million Ways to Die, 1986. Directed by Hal Ashby. Starring Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Randy Brooks and Andy García. SYNOPSIS: An alcoholic Los Angeles narcotics cop, Matt Scudder, takes part in a drug bust that results in his fatal shooting of a small-time dealer. Scudder ends up in a drunk ward, suffering […]
Image Conscious: A conversation with visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend
Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisor Christopher Townsend… “I come very much from a design background,” states Visual Effects Supervisor Christopher Townsend who studied Graphic Design at Coventry University. “I learnt a lot about composition and how to place things in relation to each other so as to make a decent looking image.” The […]
Beetlejuice rises from the grave with a sequel
Writer Seth Grahame-Smith and producer David Katzenberg’s company KatzSmith Productions has signed a two-year first-look deal at Warner Bros. One of their first projects is expected to be a sequel to Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s supernatural comedy from 1988, which starred Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. The planned film is intended to […]
Memorable Star Wars Moments #5 – “You’re being put into carbon freeze…”
With Star Wars: The Complete Saga arriving on Blu-ray this month, Gary Collinson counts down his most memorable Star Wars moments (check out the previous entry here)… STAR WARS: EPISODE V – THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK And so, we reach the first entry from The Empire Strikes Back – the crowning achievement in George Lucas’ […]
