Blooded, 2011. Directed by Edward Boase. Starring Nick Ashton, Oliver Boot, Tracy Ifeachor, Joseph Kloska, Jay Taylor and Cicely Tennant. SYNOPSIS: In October 2005, five young people were kidnapped in the Highlands of Scotland. Stripped and abandoned in the the wilderness, they were forced into a deadly game where the hunters became the hunted… You […]
R.I.P. Farley Granger (1925-2011)
American actor Farley Granger has died of natural causes on Sunday, March 27th, aged 85. Born in San Jose, California, Granger began his cinematic career as a contract player for producer Samuel Goldwyn, making his debut in the 1943 war film The North Star (dir. Lewis Milestone). He reunited with the director the following year […]
Movie Review – Sucker Punch (2011)
Sucker Punch, 2011. Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Oscar Isaac, Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm and Scott Glenn. SYNOPSIS: Locked away against her will, a young girl’s vivid imagination provides a thrilling escape from her dark reality. With Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder is for the first […]
DVD Review – The Unforgiving (2010)
The Unforgiving, 2010. Written and Directed by Alastair Orr. Starring Ryan Macquet, Craig Hawks, Claire Opperman and Michael Thompson. SYNOPSIS: Two survivors are the only link to a spate of killings that has plagued a desolate highway on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Taking its cue from various torture porn fare like Saw and Hostel, The […]
DVD Review – Fists of Rage (2006)
Fists of Rage a.k.a. Honor, 2006. Directed by David Worth. Starring Jason Barry, Russell Wong, Roddy Piper and Linda Park. SYNOPSIS: Two street warriors come to understand that not every battle is fought for money or power. Familiarity can be a good thing. An old pair of trainers that fit smoothly and snugly to your […]
Special Features – True Blood: Try a sip, you might like it
Sean Guard sinks his teeth into the popular US vampire series True Blood… Unless you happen to be dead yourself, you should know about the undead craze that is blanketing our planet. By undead I by no means am speaking of anything that slid out of the creative mind of one George A. Romero. I […]
The Week in Spandex – Captain America trailer, Dark Knight Rises casting confusion and X-Men: First Class character bios
Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… It seems like an age ago that we got our first look at Marvel’s upcoming Captain America: The First Avenger with the all-too-brief 30 second Super Bowl spot back at the beginning of February. Well, after weeks and weeks of […]
Could Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘international TV series’ be True Lies?
Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger is out of office and officially set to embark on his ‘acting’ comeback, details are starting to emerge on potential projects for the former California Governor. The Austrian Oak spoke briefly about his next steps at the Arnold Classic a few weeks back and stated that while he’d received offers to […]
DVD Review – Demon Empire (2006)
Demon Empire, 2006. Directed by Dong-oh Jo & Dong-oh Cho. Starring Woo-sung Jung, Jun-ho Heo, Tae-hee Kim, Kwang-il Kim, Jeong-hak Park, Sang-wook Park and Ha-jun Yu. SYNOPSIS: A demon slayer finds himself in the place between our world and Heaven where, reunited with his lost love, he attempts to stop the leader of an unholy […]
Understanding Scorsese: A Martin Scorsese Profile (Part 4)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the fourth of a five part feature… read parts one, two and three. “The first newspaper article Nick Pileggi showed me was about the police covering a domestic fight on a Las Vegas lawn one Sunday morning,” explained American filmmaker Martin Scorsese regarding […]
