Suspension of Disbelief, 2012. Directed by Mike Figgis.Starring Sebastian Kock, Lotte Verbeek, Emilia Fox, Rebecca Night, Eoin Macken, Lachlan Nieboer, Frances de la Tour, Julian Sands, and Kenneth Cranham. SYNOPSIS: Suspension of Disbelief is the story of Martin, a talented screenwriter and novelist currently going through a difficult patch in his career. But after the […]
DVD Review – Breakout (2011)
Breakout aka Ticket Out, 2011. Directed by Doug Lodato.Starring Ray Liotta, Alexandra Breckenridge, Colin Ford, Ciara Bond, Billy Burke, Scott Michael Campbell, Joel David Moore, and Christopher B. Duncan. SYNOPSIS: A mother takes her children and flees an abusive ex-husband. Also known as Ticket Out, Breakout is one of an array of straight to video […]
TIFF Movie Review – The Double (2013)
The Double, 2013. Directed by Richard Ayoade. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Rade Serbedzija, Cathy Moriarty, Noah Taylor, Gemma Chan and James Fox. SYNOPSIS: A timid man meets his charismatic and confident physical double who starts taking over his life. While sitting in a subway car Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) is told to move by passenger despite the rest of the seats […]
TIFF Movie Review – Mystery Road (2013)
Mystery Road, 2013. Directed by Ivan Sen. Starring Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, Tony Barry, David Field, Damian Walshe-Howling, and Tasma Walton. SYNOPSIS:A detective returns to his outback hometown to investigate the brutal murder of a teenage girl. As the sun fades away on a desolate road a truck comes to a halt with the driver conducting an inspection […]
Charlie Hunnam talks Fifty Shades of Grey
Last week Universal Pictures announced that it finally found its two leads in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s (Nowhere Boy) adaptation of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey in Charlie Hunnam (Pacific Rim) and Dakota Johnson (The Social Network), and now the British actor has spoken about taking on the role of Christian Grey during the season six […]
Movie Review – 42 (2013)
42, 2013. Directed by Brian Helgeland.Starring Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Christopher Meloni, John C. McGinley, Alan Tudyk, T. R. Knight, Lucas Black, Andre Holland, and Nicole Beharie. SYNOPSIS: The life story of Jackie Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey. The greatest testament to 42 […]
First Star Wars: Episode VII title rumour arrives
Well, it had to happen sooner or later… over the past few months we’ve been bombarded with reports about potential additions to the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII, and now we have our first potential title for the first instalment of Disney’s eagerly-anticipated Star Wars sequel trilogy. According to a report on Talkbacker (via […]
Katey Sagal thinks Futurama could return once again
Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s cult animated series Futurama came to an end for the third time this past week as Comedy Central broadcast the finale of the show’s seventh (and so far final) season, but according to Katey Sagal, we might not have seen the last of Fry, Leela, Bender and co. just […]
Money to be Made from Diana Memories
Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb…. Katy Brand writes for The Telegraph on the power of Princess Diana in 2013: “This week, the director of ‘Diana’ told my fellow Telegraph Wonder Women columnist Cathy Newman that he felt the Princess was a “sort of genius…like a film star”. She certainly had an extraordinary, unsettling […]
Movie Review – Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, 2013. Directed by David Lowery.Starring Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine, and Nate Parker. SYNOPSIS: The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met. “I shot someone. I think I […]
