Rage, 2010. Directed by Christopher R. Witherspoon. Starring Rick Crawford, Audrey Walker and Christopher R. Witherspoon. SYNOPSIS: A college professor provokes the wrath of a mysterious biker, leading to a day-long battle of cat-and-mouse which escalates into a violent rampage. It’s rare that a low-budget independent feature grips you from start to finish, but American […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Tobey Maguire, Gary Busey, Ellen Barkin, Christina Ricci and Cameron Diaz. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert […]

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 2011. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: Never one to take a fair, even-handed approach to those untrustworthy thieving gypsy types (my entire experience based of course upon Guy Ritchie films […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Euan Ferguson writes in The Observer about the recent TV and, crucially, the outstanding This Is England ’88: “Tellingly, I thought, the hugs said it all. When members of the old bunch hugged, even after estrangement, it was real. When Woody and new girl Jen tried to group-hug […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of all the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… Anticipation for The Dark Knight Rises went into overdrive this past week with the build up to the release of the six-minute IMAX prologue and new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Batman swansong, both of which generated huge amounts of […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… In Bruges, 2008. Directed by Martin McDonagh. Starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes and Clémence Poésy. In Bruges is a black comedy crime film written and directed by award winning playwright Martin McDonagh. The films follows Ray (Farrell) […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The French Connection, 1971. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco and Marcel Bozzuffi. The French Connection is a crime film adapted and fictionalized from Robin Moore’s non-fiction book of the same […]

We’ve known for the past couple of years that Harrison Ford will be dusting off the fedora once again as director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas attempt to atone for 2008’s underwhelming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with a fifth outing for everyone’s favourite archaeologist. Although development appears to […]

Public Enemies, 2009. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Cudrup, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Lang, Stephen Graham, Carey Mulligan, Giovanni Ribisi and Channing Tatum. SYNOPSIS: Infamous American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd are targeted in a “war on crime” campaign by the fledgling FBI during […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 2008. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Tilda Swinton and Elias Koteas. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a fantasy-drama loosely based […]