The Hunger Games, 2012. Directed by Gary Ross. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland and Woody Harrelson. SYNOPSIS: Teenager Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is forced to compete in The Hunger Games, a nationally televised event in which ‘Tributes’ must fight with one another until a sole […]

Trevor Hogg chats with author Serena Formica about her debut book, Peter Weir: A Creative Journey From Australia To Hollywood… “I am originally from Italy [Rome], where I attended a BA and MA in Media Studies at the Università Pontificia Salesiana, with a specialization in television production,” states Italian academic Serena Formica. “The Master’s covered […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… Enduring Love, 2004. Directed by Roger Michell. Starring Daniel Craig, Rhys Ifans, Samantha Morton, Bill Nighy and Susan Lynch. Enduring Love is based upon the Ian McEwan novel and follows the story of how two strangers become entangled in […]

Michael Bay has been coming in for some stick from fans of the classic children’s cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles since his comments a couple of weeks back about the beloved characters being reimagined as aliens for Platinum Dunes’ upcoming live-action reboot. Bay’s initial response was to tell fans to “chill”, and now he’s taken […]

It’s fairly common knowledge that filmmaker James Cameron spent many a year attached to a movie adaptation of Marvel’s Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, but now acclaimed comic book writer Chris Claremont has revealed how close Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment were to developing an X-Men feature film, which would have been produced by Cameron and directed by his […]

D.J. Haza presents the next entry in his series of films to watch before you die… The Dark Knight, 2008. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman. The Dark Knight is the second installment in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and sees the […]

American Beauty, 1999. Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper and Allison Janney. SYNOPSIS: A middle aged man finds himself questioning what his life has become and promptly embarks on a mid-life crisis. The world, and particularly America, is now a very different place than […]

The Thing, 2011. Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Eric Christian Olsen. SYNOPSIS: A group of scientists at a remote Antarctic research station stumble upon a frozen alien spacecraft and face a fight for survival after taking its inhabitant back to their base camp. […]

Kill Keith, 2011. Directed by Andy Thompson. Starring Keith Chegwin, Marc Pickering, Susannah Fielding and Tony Blackburn. SYNOPSIS: Candidates to replace the lead anchor of breakfast show Up the Crack of Dawn start dying mysterious deaths. Who could possibly be behind them? There’s a serial killer on the loose, killing candidates to host a breakfast […]

The Doom Generation, 1995. Directed by Gregg Araki. Starring James Duval, Rose McGowan and Johnathon Schaech. SYNOPSIS: Two troubled teens and an adolescent drifter embark on a sex and violence-fuelled journey across America. When future historians look back to cinema to see what people of the past were like, I really hope they don’t stumble […]