The Outsiders, 1983. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Diane Lane. SYNOPSIS: Two rival teen gangs, the working class Greasers and the well-off Socs get caught up in frequent confrontation in 1960s Oklahoma. But when one of the Socs […]
The Week in Spandex – The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel filming updates, Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, Kick-Ass 2 and more…
Presenting our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The Dark Knight Rises may no longer be looking to Occupy Wall Street but Christopher Nolan certainly has ambitious plans for his third and final Batman feature, with a member of the Official Dark Knight Rises Community posting an image […]
55th BFI London Film Festival – The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
The Deep Blue Sea, 2011. Written and Directed by Terence Davies. Starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Karl Johnson, Ann Mitchell, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sarah Kants and Jolyon Coy. SYNOPSIS: The wife of a British Judge leaves her husband to embark on a self-destructive love affair with an RAF pilot. It is quite fitting […]
DVD Review – Everything Must Go (2010)
Everything Must Go, 2010. Directed by Dan Rush. Starring Will Ferrell, Rebecca Hall, Michael Peña, Laura Dern, Christopher Jordan Wallace, Rosalie Michaels, Glenn Howerton and Stephen Root. SYNOPSIS: After losing his job and his wife, an alcoholic holds a yard sale in an attempt to start over and meets a new neighbour who may be […]
DVD Review – The House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
The House on the Edge of the Park (Italian: La casa sperduta nel parco), 1980. Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring David Hess, Annie Belle, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Marie Claude Joseph, Gabriele Di Giulio, Christian Borromeo, Brigitte Petronio and Lorraine De Selle. SYNOPSIS: Two lowlifes invite themselves to an upscale house party; ridiculed by their snobbish […]
DVD Review – The Woman (2011)
The Woman, 2011. Directed by Lucky Mckee. Starring Pollyanna McIntosh, Angela Bettis, Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter, Zach Rand, Shyla Molhusen. SYNOPSIS: A lawyer and family man captures a feral woman and chains her up in his cellar hoping to tame and civilize her, but the task proves more difficult than he anticipated. The Woman […]
Special Features – Straw Dogs and the BBFC
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Straw Dogs, Santosh Sandhu explores the troubled history of Sam Peckinpah’s notorious thriller here in the UK… Many of the decisions the BBFC had made up to the early 1970s revolved around politics, religion and sex. Whilst then censor John Trevelyan had made the BBFC more accepting of […]
Visualizing Emotion: John Seale talks about Peter Weir
Trevor Hogg chats with Academy Award-winning cinematographer John Seale about his collaborations with filmmaker Peter Weir… While directing episodes for Luke’s Kingdom (ABC, 1976), a miniseries chronicling the colonial hardships in the Australian Outback, filmmaker Peter Weir worked with a camera operator whom he decided to recruit for his next feature film. The creative partnership […]
Will Bond 23 rob 007 of his licence to thrill?
Daniel Craig’s third outing as 007, rumoured to be named “Skyfall”, could be considerably thinner in the action department, according to The Express. The paper claims that director Sam Mendes wants to focus his adventure on “characterful performances” instead of the franchise’s usual action set pieces. Most strikingly of all the director, with his background […]
Special Features – 23 Actors Who Might Have Been Bond (Part 1)
In the first of a two-part feature, Gary Collinson looks at 23 actors who could have found themselves uttering the iconic line, “The name’s Bond. James Bond…” Despite the fact that Daniel Craig is only just gearing up for the production of his third outing as 007 in Sam Mendes’ oft-delayed Bond 23 (a.k.a. Skyfall), […]
