Bright Days Ahead, 2013. Directed by Marion Vernoux. Starring Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Chesnais, Jean-François Stévenin, Fanny Cottençon, Catherine Lachens, and Alain Cauchi. SYNOPSIS: A grieving and bored senior has an adulterous affair with her much younger computer instructor. Grieving the recent death of her best friend from breast cancer and being forced into an early retirement because of a […]

The Borderlands, 2013 Written and Directed by Elliot GoldnerStarring Robin Hill, Gordon Kennedy, Aiden McArdle, Luke Neal and Patrick Godfrey SYNOPSIS: Follows a team of Vatican investigators sent to the British West Country to investigate reports of paranormal activity at a remote church. Found footage movies are nothing new and ones based around religious/paranormal events […]

Antisocial, 2013 Directed by Cody CalahanStarring Michelle Mylett, Cody Ray Thompson, Adam Christie, Ana Alic, Romaine White and Ry Barrett SYNOPSIS: Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world. Antisocial plays like your average paint-by-numbers teen […]

Gary Collinson wonders what the casting of an older Dark Knight in Batman vs. Superman means for future Batman movies… So, after a month of intense speculation which saw virtually every actor in Hollywood linked to the role, we now know the identity of the next Batman, with last week’s announcement that Ben Affleck has […]

Dark Tourist, 2012 Directed by Suri KrishnammaStarring Michael Culditz, Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince SYNOPSIS: Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism – the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations […]

Every Wednesday, FM writers Simon Columb and Brogan Morris write two short reviews on Woody Allen films … in the hope of watching all his films over the course of roughly 49 weeks. If you have been watching Woody’s films and want to join in, feel free to comment with short reviews yourself! Next up […]

Anthony Stokes on what Kick-Ass 2 got wrong…. Kick-Ass is a great movie.  It’s the essential black comedy, with immoral characters, morbid humor, and gleeful violence.  It’s one of my favorite movies and I prefer watching it over The Dark Knight. That’s how much I unconditionally love this movie.  So how do I feel about […]

Martin Deer reviews the latest episode of Breaking Bad (spoilers within)…. When an episode of Breaking Bad is titled ‘Confessions’, you expect some revelations, but I would have imagined not many were ready for this. First let’s talk about Brian Cranston’s performance as Walter White: incredible. His video confession, in which he plays the fearing […]

Having teased his super secretive meeting with Marvel for the best part of two months, Vin Diesel was confirmed as in talks to lend his voice to the tree-like Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy earlier this month, and now the Riddick and Fast & Furious star has been speaking about his role in an […]

Dragon (China: Wu xia), 2011. Directed by Peter Chan.Starring Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wei Tang and Yu Wang. SYNOPSIS: A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master. For Donnie Yen, the Chinese martial arts star that has as yet […]