Celluloid Zombie

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde Director: Joseph Kosinski Kevin Flynn returns from the virtual world in 1982, only to disappear again in 1989. Twenty years later his son, Sam, recieves a message from his father and finds himself drawn into the same virtual world, looking for him and finding more than he bargained for. “Y...

Starring: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sam Shepherd Director: Doug Liman CIA agent Valerie Plame finds her identity made public in the press after her husband, Joe Wilson, writes an article criticizing the Bush Administration’s policy toward WMDs in Iraq and the basis for going to war. “When did the question move from ‘why are we goin...

Here’s something for all you fellow geeks out there. Artist Ward Shelley has managed to incorporate three of my great loves (history, science fiction and surreal imagery) into one rather bizarre flowchart. Looking like a cross between an alien master-brain and a 40-a-day smoker’s lungs, Shelley’s diagram charts the path of science...

When screenwriter Dan O’Bannon sat down to write the science-fiction monster movie he’d been itching to create since working on John Carpenter’s Dark Star, it’s fair to assume he had little inkling just how successful his idea would be. Entitled Star Beast, O’Bannon wanted to ‘pay homage’ to the space monst...

Oscar season is upon us once more and the circus is well and truly in town. The blogs are buzzing, the free gifts and sweeteners are being sent and the usual pundits are all in a frenzy, trying to predict the outcome. Who will win Best Actor? Who will walk away with Best Director? What will Helena Bonham Carter be wearing? Who is going to fluff the...

Narrated by: Matt Damon Director: Charles Ferguson “Why should a financial engineer be paid 100 times more than a real engineer? A real engineer builds bridges, a financial engineer builds dreams. And when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.” With the whole world reeling from the effects of the financial cri...

Starring: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black Director: Aaron Schneider “They keep talking about forgiveness. Ask Jesus for forgiveness. I never did nothing to Him…” Felix Bush has lived a hermit’s life for over 40 years, keeping himself away from Thirties society in his cabin in the woods. He is the subjec...

It’s that time of year. Well, that day of the year. Cupid is abroad in the land, drawing back his bow and forcing men everywhere to do the things they really should be doing all year round, without his chubby help. No doubt, part of the Valentine’s rituals across the world will be the sitting down to watch a romantic movie together...

London, 1969. Two unemployed actors, the self-centred Withnail and the self-conscious Marwood, decide to escape the squalor of their Camden flat and head to the country for a holiday. Travelling to the small cottage, owned by Withnail’s eccentric Uncle Monty, the two men find themselves completely unprepared for the mild horrors of non-suburb...

Hot on the heels of the first peek of Andrew Garfield’s revamped Spider-man costume comes the release of the first teaser poster for another of Marvel’s three big releases this year, Captain America. I used to read Captain America when I was a kid, but he was never one of my favourites, and I gave up on him after he beat up a ‘villain’ cal...

I love a good ghost story. They are without doubt my favourite strain of horror movie. Vampires are fine, werewolves are fine, psychotic killers with masks are just fine, but for me there’s nothing quite as terrifying as a ghost. As a kid I would scare myself witless with tales of the supernatural, both fictional and otherwise, aided in no sm...

Starring: Brian Boland, Molly Ephraim, Katie Featherston Director: Tod Williams A family experience what they assume to be a break-in when their house is trashed while they are all out. After installing security cameras in various rooms, a series of unexplained events begin to plaque them, and it becomes increasingly clear that the house is home to...