Looking forward to visiting Shutter Island

Just like he did with Robert De Niro for many years, Martin Scorsese is building up quite a powerful partnership with Leonardo Di Caprio.

Midnight Meat Train takes no passengers

CLIVE Barker hasn’t enjoyed a hell of a lot of success in recent times when it comes to how his stories have been adapted for the screen. The horror author’s works provided the basis for a string of feature film hits in the late 1980s and early ’90s – Hellraiser(1987), which was based on the [...]

11 Useful Corpses From The Movies

We’ve seen plenty of dead bodies in films throughout the years but most of them are really just for ornament value. The stiffs featured here know how to earn their keep in their respective movies, serving a genuine purpose in all manner of ways …

Surrogates gives life to futuristic thriller

The Surrogates is the latest feature film about to be released that has been adapted from the pages of a comic. And allows its star, Bruce Willis, to wear hair again.

No Vacancy allowed for pathetic Wilson

Luke Wilson, what the hell are you doing man!? You really need to have a serious talk to your agent.

Sick, twisted, Funny Games is enjoyable

Funny Games is a disturbing, and at times frustrating and infuriating, but overall entertaining thriller, which is probably just the result German writer-director Michael Haneke wanted. A scene-for-scene remake of Haneke’s own original 1997 Austrian-made version, it stars two seasoned campaigners in Naomi Watts, who also co-produced, and Tim Roth as … well, let me [...]

11 Not-So Shakespearean Actors Doing Shakespeare in 11 Not-So Shakespearean Movies

Almost 400 years after his death, the work of The Bard, the great William Shakespeare, continues to be adapted for the big screen at an amazing rate – by all and sundry.

Taken on a fast and furious rescue mission

Bryan Mills could not have asked for a better way to get his cold-hearted bitch of an ex-wife off his back and at the same time reconnect with his teenage daughter. In Taken (2008), Mills (Liam Neeson) is a retired CIA operative who must spring back into action in order to save 17-year-old Kim (Maggie [...]

11 Professional Killers Who Prove a Hit

Hitmen, assassins, call them what you will. They have made for some entertaining movie characters over the years. Some just plain funny, others downright scary. Tom Cruise for instance in Collateral is a little of both. Big Tom’s never really been known to strike fear into the hearts of viewers - even when he was a blood-sucking [...]

In Bruges. Glad to have visited

Don’t be too fooled by the ice-cream. In Bruges is a quirky black comedy with an emphasis on the black. In fact, it is a film that possesses the darkest of undertones. At the core of the movie is the accidental death of an innocent child at the hand of a hit-man, which poses the question: [...]

9 Great Films Featuring Bank Robberies

I’ve only just seen the 2007 release The Lookout, a subtly powerful film that revolves around a bank heist. And it got me thinking ’so what are the best movies involving bank robberies?’. So, here they are below – in this writer’s humble opinion anyway. Most are movies specifically about the robbing of banks, while others may have simply [...]

Bank on The Lookout for a thrilling ride

FOR a young actor who made his name playing an alien in 133 episodes of the quirky television sit-com 3rd Rock from the Sun, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming of age by portraying some very human characters on the big screen. While thankfully steering well and truly clear of the dreaded teen heart-throb path he could easily have [...]