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1999: A Movie Year In Review (Part Two)

Welcome to Part 2 of our 1999 Movie Retrospective. The final year of the last century was one hell of a cinematic ride and it offered some outstanding films for lovers of cinema. Now be aware that this is not a definitive list of the films released [...]

May 15, 2012

Review: Gallic Thriller THE SERPENT

The Serpent is a French film from director Eric Barbier starring Yvan Attal, Clovis Cornillac and Quantum of Solace‘s Bond girl Olga Kurylenko. Vincent (Attal) is a photographer who is going through a messy divorce, his life is slowly heading [...]

May 13, 2012

Pierce Brosnan Joins Owen Wilson In THE COUP

Former James Bond, Pierce Brosnan is set to join Owen Wilson in director John Eric Dowdle’s The Coup. According to Deadline: “[The film] centers on an American family that moves to Southeast Asia and finds itself entangled in a violent [...]

May 2, 2012

Interview: Writer/Director Richard Shepard

Richard Shepard is fast becoming a well respected writer-director following the release of The Matador and now the well reviewed The Hunting Party starring Richard Gere and Terrance Howard. In the film Gere and Howard are among a group of [...]

April 8, 2012

Review: Daniel Craig Is James Bond In QUANTUM OF SOLACE

As a life long James Bond fan I always look forward to new adventures from the super-spy. My very first cinematic memory is watching Roger Moore’s final outing as Bond in A View To A Kill, and my teenage years and early twenties were filled with [...]

April 7, 2012

Review: Daniel Craig In WWII Drama DEFIANCE

There have been a slew of holocaust dramas released in cinemas that attempt to show the Second World War from a different cinematic perspective. Defiance is another film to add to the list, and the “gimmick” that director Ed Zwick has decided to [...]

April 6, 2012

Interview: JAMES BOND And INDIANA JONES Stuntman Vic Armstrong

Vic Armstrong is something of a movie legend. You may not know the name, but you’ve undoubtedly seen his work. Armstrong started out as a movie stuntman, working on the Gregory Peck film Arabesqe, before he began his longstanding association with [...]

March 25, 2012

THE WIRE Star Idris Elba And Bond Girl Naomie Harris Take A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

Thor actor Idris Elba and Skyfall’s Naomie Harris are set to portray Nelson and Winnie Mandela in the biopic Long Walk To Freedom. Justin Chadwick is in talks to direct the film; a move which will see him reunite with Harris, who he directed in [...]

March 14, 2012

James Bond 007: A Cinematic Legacy – Part 2 of 2

Read Part One When an aging Roger Moore finally retired from the James Bond series in 1985, a young Irish actor named Pierce Brosnan was hired to replace him. However, when his series Remington Steele featured a surge in popularity following his [...]

March 12, 2012

James Bond 007: A Cinematic Legacy – Part 1 of 2

Since Dr No was released in 1962, James Bond has captivated the cinema going public and delivered a character that is synonymous with Britain and sophistication. Originally from the pen of author Ian Fleming, Bond was immortalized by Sean Connery, [...]

March 11, 2012

James Bond Goes IMAX In SKYFALL

It looks like it’s all change for the James Bond franchise, as the next instalment, Skyfall is going to be shown on IMAX screens.It’s hard not to think that Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol‘s near $700 million gross had something [...]

February 23, 2012