BBC2's Line of Duty secures second series after impressive viewing figures
Warning: Spoilers! Original BBC2 drama Line of Duty will get a second series after its last episode, which aired on Tuesday, secured the channel's highest viewing figures for a new drama series in...
View ArticleCompetition - Win The Night Porter on Blu-ray
One of the most shocking and controversial movies ever made, The Night Porter (Anchor Bay) is a courageous and uncompromising piece of filmmaking that has come to be regarded as a classic of European...
View ArticleSpecial Features – Do good dramas need bad guys or just believable human beings?
Following a previous article on movie villains, Liam Trim wonders whether BBC dramas Blackout and Line of Duty actually needed any bad guys at all... Spoiler warning: the following article contains...
View ArticleBlu-ray Review - Pentathlon (1994)
Pentathlon, 1994. Directed by Bruce Malmuth. Starring Dolph Lundgren, David Soul, Renée Coleman and Roger E. Mosley. SYNOPSIS: An Olympic Gold-winning East German pentathlete defects to the West, only...
View ArticleProducer Dean Devlin discusses the Independence Day sequel
Earlier this month, Armageddon specialist Roland Emmerich hinted that he and his former creative partner Dean Devlin were looking to resurrect the long-rumoured sequel to 1996's blockbuster alien...
View ArticleDVD Review - Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011)
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, 2011. Directed by Constance Marks. SYNOPSIS: A documentary on the man behind the Muppet - Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash. I have little doubt in my mind that The Avengers...
View ArticleDon't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 - Episode 7 - Review
Luke Graham reviews the final episode of Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23's first series...The season finale to Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, entitled Shitagi Nashi after a fictional...
View ArticleTrailer Trash - Five Hour Friends, Life Of Pi and The Canyons
Sara Bentley reviews everyone's favourite part of the going to The Pictures - the trailers... Control and Chaos: Five Hour Friends Tim is a man who plays by the rules. His own rules. His life is akin...
View ArticleUK box office takings exceed £1 billion for the first time
Despite the gloomy economic climate, UK cinemas enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2011, with cinema receipts exceeding £1 billion for the very first time. According to the British Film Institute's...
View ArticleFirst trailer for Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Okay, so we all know that video game-to-movie adaptations don't exactly reek of quality, but one effort that came pretty close to bucking the trend was 2006's Silent Hill, and Open Road Films has now...
View ArticleDVD Review - License to Drive (1988)
License to Drive, 1988. Directed by Greg Beeman. Starring Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Heather Graham, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Michael Manasseri and Nina Siemaszko. SYNOPSIS: A high school student...
View ArticleA Machete Kills behind-the-scenes video and new character poster
A few days ago we saw the first character poster from Machete Kills featuring Lady Gaga's La Chameleón and now William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) has debuted a...
View ArticlePeter Jackson officially announces that The Hobbit is now a trilogy
Well, it's been rumoured for a good few weeks that the hotly-anticipated two-part Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit could end up as a trilogy and now it's official, with Peter Jackson taking to...
View ArticleAn extended TV spot for Total Recall
Ahead of its impending release, Columbia Pictures has debuted a new extended international TV spot for director Len Wiseman's (Underworld, Die Hard 4.0) sci-fi action remake Total Recall, which you can...
View ArticleA new theatrical trailer for Taken 2
We've already seen a couple of international trailers for the Luc Besson-produced action sequel Taken 2 [see here and here], and now the first theatrical U.S. trailer has been released via Yahoo!...
View ArticleBoardwalk Empire season 3 teaser trailer
Terence Winter's award-winning Prohibition-era period drama Boardwalk Empire returns to TV screens in September for its third season, and HBO has released a rather artistic teaser trailer for the...
View ArticleEdgar Wright's Ant-Man set to arrive in 2014?
When Marvel Studios announced its plans for Phase Two of the Cinematic Universe at the San Diego Comic-Con International earlier this month, one thing that was notably absent was a release date for...
View ArticleMovie Review - Brave (2012)
Brave, 2012. Directed by Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman. Featuring the voice talents of Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd and Craig Ferguson....
View ArticleMichael Rowe cast as Deadshot in Arrow
This past weekend it was revealed that the DC Comics super-villain Deadshot would appear in The CW's upcoming live-action series Arrow, and now TV Guide has announced that Canadian actor Michael Rowe...
View ArticleA trailer for the British horror A Night in the Woods
Vertigo Films has released a theatrical trailer for the upcoming British horror film A Night in the Woods, which is directed by the BAFTA nominated war photographer and documentary filmmaker Richard...
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