Following his Academy Award nomination for Best Director on The King’s Speech, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Tom Hooper in the second of a two part feature… read part one here. Expecting to do a film about Katharine Graham, the legendary publisher of The Washington Post, British director Tom Hooper found his […]
DVD Review – Black Dynamite (2009)
Black Dynamite, 2009. Directed by Scott Sanders. Starring Michael Jai White, Salli Richardson, Arsenio Hall, Kevin Chapman and Tommy Davidson. SYNOPSIS: After his brother is killed, the gun-toting, nunchuck-wielding, ladies man and soul brother Black Dynamite sets out for revenge against ‘The Man’. On November 4th 2008, history was made. After months of campaigning, picketing, […]
DVD Review – Brotherhood (2010)
Brotherhood, 2010. Directed by Will Canon. Starring Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster, Lou Taylor Pucci, Arlen Escarpeta, Jesse Steccato and Jennifer Sipes. SYNOPSIS: When an initiation prank goes horribly wrong the members of a college fraternity desperately try to suppress the truth and take ever more desperate steps to cover their tracks, forcing one pledge to […]
R.I.P. John Barry (1933-2011)
Academy Award winning composer John Barry has passed away after suffering a fatal heart attack, aged 77. Born in York in 1933, Barry began performing as a musician during his National Service and formed The John Barry Seven before going on to work for the BBC on the likes of Juke Box Jury and Drumbeat. […]
Zack Snyder to make you believe Henry Cavill can fly in Superman: Man of Steel
Rising British actor Henry Cavill has been cast as Superman in Zack Snyder’s upcoming reboot Man of Steel, with the director releasing a statement today to confirm the news. Cavill is best known for his work on the television period drama The Tudors, while his feature credits include The Count of Monte Cristo (2002, dir. […]
Movie Review – Life in a Day (2011)
Life in a Day, 2011. Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Produced by Ridley Scott. SYNOPSIS: A documentary compiled from thousands of hours of footage by YouTube users that tells the story of a single day on earth. Life in a Day is the result of director Kevin MacDonald’s plea to the YouTube community to record one […]
The Week in Spandex – Forget The Dark Knight Rises, Spider-Man and The Avengers… it’s the return of Ghost Rider!
Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Over the past few weeks we’ve enjoyed plenty of juicy superhero headlines, from the first reveal of Chris Evans in costume as Captain America: The First Avenger, Andrew Garfield in the Untitled Spider-Man Reboot and the cast of Matthew Vaughn’s […]
Five Essential… James Bond Films
Simon Moore selects his Five Essential James Bond Films… Picture this. It’s Saturday night. The TV schedule has failed you, yet again, on a Bank Holiday weekend, no less. Then a title jumps out at you from the onscreen menu. Ah… there’s a Bond film on… It doesn’t matter what title, it doesn’t matter when […]
DVD Review – The Thin Red Line (1964)
The Thin Red Line, 1964. Directed by Andrew Marton. Starring Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Kieron Moore, Ray Daley and Bob Kanter. SYNOPSIS: A private and his sergeant clash during the heat of battle as American G.I.’s fight the Japanese in the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. In 1998 acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick […]
Ascension: A Tom Hooper Profile (Part 1)
Following his Academy Award nomination for Best Director on The King’s Speech, Trevor Hogg profiles the career of British filmmaker Tom Hooper in the first of a two-part feature… “I fell in love with directing at the age of twelve, at prep school in Highgate,” stated British filmmaker Tom Hooper who as a student came […]
