Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the third of a five part feature… read parts one and two. When he was approached by Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who wanted to revise his signature role of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961), Martin Scorsese was […]
Disney pull the plug on Robert Zemeckis’ Yellow Submarine remake
Following on from the dismal US opening of the Robert Zemeckis-produced motion-capture animation Mars Needs Moms (which banked just $6.9m in its opening weekend from a reported budget of $150m), THR have announced that The Walt Disney Company have called time on Zemeckis’ planned remake of the bonkers Beatles animation Yellow Submarine. According to sources […]
DVD Review – Across the Forest: Tales from Transylvania (2009)
Across the Forest: Tales from Transylvania, 2009. Directed by Justin Blair and Matthew Vincent. SYNOPSIS: Two American filmmakers journey to the mountains of Transylvania, where ancient beliefs in the supernatural can still be found. “I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were […]
The Week in Spandex – X-Men: First Class, The Dark Knight Rises, The Punisher and The Governator
Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest stories from the world of movie superheroes… The marketing campaign for Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming superhero prequel X-Men: First Class continues to deliver a rollercoaster of a ride, with opinion seemingly see-sawing from one week to the next. First up we had the disappointment of the initial character reveals […]
Neil Gaiman to write Journey to the West film series
Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman, whose works Coraline and Stardust have been turned into films in recent years, has signed on to write the scripts for an epic $300 million series of 3D feature films adapted from the ancient Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. The classic 16th century fantasy follows the misadventures of the […]
Movie Review – Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
Battle: Los Angeles, 2011. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ramon Rodriguez, Cory Hardrict, Michael Peña, Ne-Yo, Nzinga Blake and Will Rothhaar. SYNOPSIS: Los Angeles becomes a battleground as a platoon of U.S. Marines make a desperate last stand against invading extra-terrestrial forces. Independence Day, Cloverfield, The Day the Earth […]
Movie Review – The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
The Adjustment Bureau, 2011. Directed by George Nolfi. Starring Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly and Terence Stamp. SYNOPSIS: An ambitious politician falls in love with an enchanting ballerina but mysterious forces are determined to keep them apart and the agents of fate – the Adjustment Bureau – forbid him to […]
Jameson Cult Film Club – Monsters (2010)
Jameson Cult Film Club screening of Monsters (2010) at The Royal College of Surgeons, London, 3rd March, 2011. Written and Directed by Gareth Edwards. Starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able. SYNOPSIS: A NASA space probe containing alien spores crashes in Mexico, turning the northern part of the country into a quarantined area known as ‘The […]
Understanding Scorsese: A Martin Scorsese Profile (Part 2)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the second of a five-part feature… read part one here. “It’s true that some films will involve me more than others,” admitted American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. “It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the […]
DVD Review – Damned by Dawn (2009)
Damned by Dawn, 2009. Directed by Brett Anstey. Starring Renee Willner, Bridget Neval, Dawn Klinberg, Taryn Eva, Danny Alder, Mark Taylor and Peter Stratford. SYNOPSIS: In a remote country farmhouse a family interrupt the grieving rituals of a banshee, who then summons an army of the undead to unleash her fury. Australian horror has enjoyed […]
