Killer Joe, 2011. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon, Juno Temple and Thomas Haden Church. SYNOPSIS: In debt to a local gangster, a small-time drug dealer puts out a hit on his own mother to collect her life insurance, which attracts the interest of a policeman who moonlights as a […]

Exit Elena, 2012. Directed by Nathan Silver. Starring Nathan Silver, Kia Davis, Jim Chiros, Barbara White, Gert O’Connell, Cindy Silver and Lawrence Balin. SYNOPSIS: Elena, a newly qualified live-in nurse, moves in with the Akerman family to nurse their aging grandmother. Unfortunately, the clingy mother makes it difficult for her to stay professional. Exit Elena […]

The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, 2012. Directed by Paul Tanter. Starring Nick Nevern, Simon Phillips, Rita Ramnani, Peter Barrett, Ricci Harnett, Rebecca Ferdinando, Roland Manookian and Billy Murry. SYNOPSIS: A casual football hooligan is sucked into the murky world of credit card fraud and soon becomes seduced by the money and […]

Cleanskin, 2012. Directed by Hadi Hajaig. Starring Sean Bean, Abhin Galeya, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox, Tuppence Middleton, Shivani Ghai and Michelle Ryan. SYNOPSIS: A secret service agent deep undercover in London’s criminal underbelly is tasked with eliminating a terrorist cell. After the 9/11 attacks, the movie industry took a different stance in portraying its terrorists […]

Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen was released this past Friday, and a few new reviews have popped up over the weekend… First up is a review from Rob Smedley of CultBox; here’s an extract: “Holy Franchise, Batman! makes the bold claim of being ‘the Caped Crusader fan’s bible’, and lives […]

Luke Owen reviews the fifteenth season of South Park, which is released on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK today… It’s amazing to think that some little TV series I once stayed up late to watch air on Channel 4 in 1997 with terrible animation and crude-but-not-that-crude humour would not only be in its 15th […]

God Bless America, 2011. Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. Starring Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke Smith and Melinda Page Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Terminally ill Frank has reached the end of his tether. His neighbours are inconsiderate, the television is full of programs that glorify stupidity and ridicule the weak, and life barely seems worth living. […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Patrick Goldstein for the LA Times writes about diversity within the Academy Awards: “[Will] Packer was one of 176 film industry luminaries who were invited today to become academy members. And even though most of the headlines will inevitably focus on such A-list talent as Terrence Malick, Jonah […]

The Amazing Spider-Man, 2012. Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen and Sally Field. SYNOPSIS: Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, which gives him a few of its attributes. So… how’s this one different from the last three? It’s more “amazing”. You can tell […]

Our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… We’ll kick things off this week with Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man, which of course swings into cinemas this coming Tuesday with a cast that includes Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spidey, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and Rhys Ifans […]