Source Code, 2011. Directed by Duncan Jones . Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga.  SYNOPSIS: Captain Colter Stevens, a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan, wakes up in the body of a man he doesn’t recognise on a commuter train to Chicago. Before he can comprehend anything, a bomb goes off, killing him and everyone on […]

13 Assassins (Jûsan-nin no shikaku), 2010. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada and Yuseke Iseya. SYNOPSIS: The sadistic Lord Naritsugu, brother of the Shogun and therefore above the law, commits a string of atrocities across feudal Japan. The samurai Shinzaemon Shimada is hired to assassinate him, hiring a team of samurai assassins […]

Rubber, 2010. Directed by Quentin Dupieux. Starring Stephen Spinella, Roxanne Mesquida, Jack Plotnick and Wings Hauser. SYNOPSIS: In the California desert, a group of spectators watch through binoculars as a tyre come to life and starts to go on a killing spree. It does help if a film makes sense. Some of the biggest film […]

Michael Fassbender has signed up to star in a biopic about the life of punk legend Terri Hooley, the founder of a record store in Belfast called ‘Good Vibrations’. The store later evolved into a music label, which kick-started the careers of a number of Irish punk bands. The German-born actor, who grew up in […]

Sean Guard on the first season of Frank Darabont’s acclaimed zombie series The Walking Dead… Last year’s Halloween frenzy was a pretty decent one in my opinion. I love horror flicks, I mean I love them. There isn’t quite anything like being scared. Suspense building up inside of you, heart pounding so hard it feels […]

Trevor Hogg talks with Sucker Punch and The Tree of Life visual effects supervisor Bryan Hirota… One of the recent additions to the staff of Pixomondo is veteran visual effects supervisor Bryan Hirota; he has worked on over 50 films starting with Demolition Man (1993) as a computer graphics designer. “My Mother has a Masters […]

My Soul to Take, 2010. Written and Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Max Thieriot, John Magaro and Denzel Whitaker. SYNOPSIS: Sixteen years after his murderous rampage, the Riverton Ripper has seemingly returned to Riverton, with the seven children born the day he died in his sights. But does one of the seven hold the key […]

Barbarossa: Siege Lord a.k.a. Sword of War, 2009. Directed by Renzo Martinelli. Starring Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan and F. Murray Abraham. SYNOPSIS: In Northern Italy, the Germanic Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (Rutger Hauer) plans to capture the regions of the South and Centre to recreate the empire, leading to deadly clashes between the people of the […]

Edge of the Empire, 2010. Written and Directed by Nirattisai Kaljareuk. Starring Arnut Rapanit, Lalisa Sontirod and Than Thanakorn. SYNOPSIS: In 757, the Qin dynasty unleashes its army to impose the emperor’s will upon the free tribes in the Cheung Dao Valley, China, forcing the six Tai tribes (the legendary ancestors of the Thai people) […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest talking points from the world of movie superheroes… We’ve known for a while that Christopher Nolan will bring his Batman tenure to an end next year with the release of The Dark Knight Rises, but it now appears that the director is set to remain involved with the […]