Absentia, 2011. Written and Directed by Mike Flanagan. Starring Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Dave Levine, Morgan Peter Brown, Justin Gordon, James Flanagan and Doug Jones. SYNOPSIS: A woman and her sister come to suspect that a pedestrian tunnel could be linked to a series of neighborhood disappearances, including that of her own husband seven years […]
Five Reasons Peter Parker is a Bit of a D***
The Amazing Spider-Man (don’t forget the hyphen) came out a couple of weeks ago now and, like Prometheus, people are going a bit marmite over it. Here’s a few brief reviews from both sides of the crusty, yellow-capped pot to get you in the dialectic mood. They’re from the YouTube comments section to TASM’s trailer, […]
DVD Review – Exit Humanity (2011)
Exit Humanity, 2011. Written and Directed by John Geddes. Starring Mark Gibson, Dee Wallace and Bill Moseley. SYNOPSIS: The story of Edward Young, a man who must fight to survive in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak during the American Civil War. Exit Humanity takes a tried and tested genre, the zombie movie, and attempts […]
Movie Review – The Hunter (2011)
The Hunter, 2011. Directed by Daniel Nettheim. Starring Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgana Davies, Frances O’Connor, Sullivan Stapleton, Callan Mulvey, Jacek Koman and Dan Wyllie. SYNOPSIS: A mercenary American hunter is hired by a shadowy biotech organisation to travel to Tasmania and investigate sightings of the Tasmanian tiger, a species previously thought extinct. The Hunter […]
R.I.P. Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012)
Academy Award-winning American film and television actor Ernest Borgnine has passed away from renal failure in Los Angeles, California, aged 89. The son of Italian immigrants, Borgnine was born in Hamden, Connecticut in 1917 and served in the United States Navy during World War II, after which he decided to pursue a career on the […]
Gloomy Dark Knight and Shiny Avengers
Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Andrew Pulver writes for The Guardian about the ongoing battle between The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers… “Steven Gaydos, executive editor of movie industry bible Variety, says that the gloomy introspection we associate with Christopher Nolan’s superhero series may be in danger of passing its sell-by date. […]
London Film and Comic Con 2012 – Dredd Panel Highlights
Gary Collinson rounds up today’s Dredd panel from the London Film and Comic Con 2012, which included brand new footage, along with talk of sequels and Dark Judges… After a ‘preview’ on Friday evening, the first day proper of this year’s London Film and Comic Con drew to a close on Saturday with a world […]
The Week in Spandex – The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3, Big Hero 6, Marvel Animation and more
Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Due to this weekend’s London Film and Comic Con, this edition of ‘The Week in Spandex’ arrives a little early (and somewhat abridged), but there’s still plenty of superhero goodness to catch up on… …The Amazing Spider-Man was released […]
Movie Review – Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Ice Age: Continental Drift, 2012. Directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. Featuring the voice talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Keke Palmer, Josh Peck, Chris Wedge, Alan Tudyk, Nick Frost, Patrick Stewart, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lopez, Drake and Nicki Minaj. SYNOPSIS: After their world starts to literally […]
Movie Review – The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man, 2012. Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Irrfan Khan and Chris Zylka. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant but troubled young man is bitten by a genetically altered spider, changing him forever. We know this story, don’t we? We’ve heard it all before, so […]
