Earlier this week, Robert Hale released their catalogue of upcoming releases for January to June, which just happens to include a little book of mine called Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen. Here’s the official blurb… Since the Caped Crusader first made the leap from comics to silver screen in the […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #59 – Trainspotting (1996)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Trainspotting, 1996. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd and Kelly Macdonald. Danny Boyle’s stylish and charismatic film adapted from the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name tells the […]
Movie Review – Coriolanus (2011)
Coriolanus, 2011. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave and Jessica Chastain. SYNOPSIS: After being banished from the city, a military hero returns to Rome in order to extract his revenge. William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus might not be the most famous of his plays, and certainly not, in my opinion, […]
Image Conscious: A conversation with visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Phil Tippett… “In those days very few people were doing visual effects and it was difficult to find work,” recalls American Visual Effects Supervisor Phil Tippett. “Ray Harryhausen [The Golden Voyage of Sinbad] would do his kind of shows, and every once and a while somebody […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #58 – Unforgiven (1992)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Unforgiven, 1992. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett and Saul Rubinek. Unforgiven is the magnificent and dark story of William Munny (Eastwood) returning to his old ways as a gunslinger […]
Films To Watch Before You Die #57 – The Usual Suspects (1995)
D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Usual Suspects, 1995. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite and Kevin Spacey. The Usual Suspects is a stylish little neo-noir with a meager $6 million budget […]
Movie Review – Fright Night (2011)
Fright Night, 2011. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, David Tennant, Toni Collette, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Imogen Poots and Dave Franco. SYNOPSIS: A high school student comes to suspect that his next-door neighbor is a vampire. Fright Night follows Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), a down-to-earth high schooler who’s just trying to fit in […]
Matthew Vaughn signs on for X-Men: First Class 2
Deadline are reporting that Fox have closed a deal with Matthew Vaughn to return to the director’s chair for a sequel to last year’s superhero prequel X-Men: First Class, with X-Men veteran Bryan Singer also back in a producing capacity and Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, X-Men: The Last Stand, Sherlock Holmes) handling scriptwriting […]
Blu-ray Review – Rolling Thunder (1977)
Rolling Thunder, 1977. Directed by John Flynn. Starring William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Haynes. SYNOPSIS: A Vietnam veteran seeks revenge after the murder of his wife and child. Part revenge tale, part human drama, part commentary on the Vietnam war, and part study on the human psyche, Rolling Thunder is a great example […]
DVD Review – Yamada: Way of the Samurai (2010)
Yamada: Way of the Samurai (a.k.a. Yamada: The Samurai of Ayothaya), 2010. Directed by Nopporn Watin. Starring Seigi Ozeki, Kanokkorn Jaicheun, Sorapong Chatree, Thanawut Ketsaro, Winai Kraibutr and Buakhao Paw Pramuk. SYNOPSIS: Betrayed and left for dead, the young Japanese samurai Yamada finds a new home in Siam and soon faces his greatest battle against […]
