Sad news today as the Los Angeles Times reports that film editor and longtime Quentin Tarantino collaborator Sally Menke was found dead in the early hours of this morning, aged 56. Menke had failed to return home from a hiking session in Los Angeles on Monday during an extreme heatwave, with early rumours pointing to […]
Thoughts on… Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Brokeback Mountain, 2005. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini and Randy Quaid. SYNOPSIS: An epic American love story about a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. Dubbed at the time of release ‘The Gay […]
Movie Review – Shutter Island (2010)
Shutter Island, 2010. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Max von Sydow, Emily Mortimer and Jackie Earle Haley. SYNOPSIS: A US Marshal investigates the disappearance of a patient who has escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island. I offer a warning prior to you […]
Movies That Might Have Been – Superman Lives
Gary Collinson ponders the fate of The Man of Steel had the stars aligned differently in Movies That Might Have Been… What We Got… Absent from the screen for almost two decades, The Man of Steel finally returned to banish the ghost of 1987’s The Quest For Peace (and part III, for that matter) in […]
British Cinema: The Be All and End All (2010)
The Be All and End All, 2010. Directed by Bruce Webb. Starring Josh Bolt, Eugene Byrne and Liza Tarbuck. SYNOPSIS: A teenager suffering from a fatal heart condition has one last wish – to lose his virginity. The Be All and End All is the first feature film by director Bruce Webb. Webb has said […]
Encountering Spielberg: A Steven Spielberg Profile (Part 5)
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “I admired [Stanley] Kubrick for the sheer variety of his films,” stated Steven Spielberg of the reclusive and revered American filmmaker. “Paths of Glory [1957] was the best antiwar […]
Cult Classics: The Evil Dead (1981)
The Evil Dead, 1981. Directed by Sam Raimi. Starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Hal Delrich and Theresa Tilly. SYNOPSIS: Five students journey to an isolated cabin where they find The Book of the Dead and unwittingly release an evil force from within the woods. The first outing in the deliciously campy Evil Dead […]
Movie Review – The Expendables (2010)
The Expendables, 2010. Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Gary Daniels, Charisma Carpenter and Arnold Schwarzenegger. SYNOPSIS: The ultimate mercenary crew embark on the ultimate mission. I love action films. It’s a grand statement […]
Thoughts on… Cyrus (2010)
Cyrus, 2010. Directed by Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. Starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and Catherine Keener. SYNOPSIS: A likeable loser gets more than he bargained for when he meets the woman of his dreams and discovers the other man in her life – her 21-year-old son. I was never able to […]
Movie Review – Tamara Drewe (2010)
Tamara Drewe, 2010. Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: A glamorous newspaper journalist returns to the scene of her adolescence as her family home is put up for sale, only to cause a stir among the locals. Consensus = broad unanimity; general or widespread […]
