Leon: The Professional, 1994. Directed by Luc Besson.Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, and Danny Aiello. SYNOPSIS:Leon (Jean Reno) is a solitary assassin living under the employ of Italian gangster Tony (Danny Aiello). After hideously corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) slaughters a mostly innocent family on his floor, he’s forced to take […]

Anghus Houvouras on Woody Allen, Philip Seymour Hoffman and the concept of letting go…The concept of separating the art from the artist is one I’ve wrestled with for a long time. I can recall conversations on this very topic dating back to the days before the internet. Back when collections of film fans gathered at […]

Anghus Houvouras on X-Men: Days of Future Past…I doubt I’m alone on this. I can’t be. This sickness, this palatable level of nausea I feel with every subsequent piece of marketing associated with the film. This sense of dread that creeps in with every photo that hits Twitter. I say to myself ‘they’re set photos’. […]

The LEGO Movie, 2014. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller.Featuring the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Cobie Smulders. SYNOPSIS: An ordinary LEGO minifigure, mistakenly thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to […]

Tori Brazier continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with a look at The Godfather… Regularly topping polls as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 masterpiece The Godfather needs very little introduction. Suffice it to say, the film deserves every one of its accolades (including three Academy Award wins […]

Lift to the Scaffold aka Elevator to the Gallows (France: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud), 1958.Directed by Louis Malle.Starring Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Jean Wall and Yori Bertin.SYNOPSIS:A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his adulterer, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.The stuck-in-a-lift plot device grabs your attention. The opening […]

David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Batman vs. Superman) is set to take a break from his DC duties for Warner Bros. to direct The Breach, an adaptation of Patrick Lee’s 2009 sci-fi novel, which is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Transformers: Age of Extinction) for Lionsgate.According to THR, The […]

Warner Bros. latest DC animated movie Justice League: War arrives on shelves today, and much like the New 52-launching Justice League: Origin story arc from which it is based, it seems the direct-to-video feature will launch a shared continuity for the line of DC Universe Animated Original Movies. This will definitely be the first salvo in […]

The Bridge (Sweden/Denmark: Bron/Broen).Starring Sofia Helin, Kim Bodnia, Dag Malmberg, Rafael Pettersson, Puk Scharbau, Sarah Boberg, Lars Simonsen, Emil Birk Hartmann and Vickie Bak Laursen.SYNOPSIS:TV series following an oddly paired duo of Swedish and Danish police inspectors who must work together to solve the most gruesome and potentially world changing of mysteries…Offering up countless whodunits […]

Hell Comes to Frogtown, 1988. Directed by Donald G. Jackson and R.J. Kizer.Starring Roddy Piper, William Smith, Sandahl Bergman, Eyde Byrde and Cec Verrell. SYNOPSIS: Sam Hell is a prisoner of the female faction who took over the US after nuclear war. Mutants thrive in the wasteland while humans face possible extinction due to infertility. Bomb […]