New Releases For September

In terms of movies releases in the UK, September is a transition month. The summer blockbuster releases are, in the main, finished but the early award contenders have not yet reached us as they tend ...
James Bond

Nobody Does It Better?

Ian Fleming’s James Bond is the longest running franchise in cinema history. Beginning with Sean Connery as Bond in 1962’s Dr No and most recently starring Daniel Craig in Skyfall (2012), everyone’s ...

The November Man

There is a bit of a trend happening just now in the movies. We are seeing the return of the aging action star. With the success of The Expendables franchise where a large number of Eighties action he...

New Releases for November

November sees a bit of a mixed bag of releases in the UK cinemas. There is a distinct lack of blockbuster movies with the only two major releases book-ending the schedule. This allows some minor rele...

A Long Way Down

There are just few authors who can claim that their novels translate successfully to the big screen. Childrens stories such as Harry Potter , Twilight and The Hunger Games have been hugely profitable...

New releases for March

The month of March sees the last of the major award ceremonies taking place with the Oscars being announced on the second. The release schedule reflects this. The past few months have seen all of the...

A Long Way Down

This comes as a bit of a surprise. Until now there was little in the way of news or publicity surrounding the new Pierce Brosnan film A Long Way Down. Then last week the trailer popped up on-line and...

John’s Top Ten of 2013

It was a bit of a hit and miss year for movies. Some of the most anticipated and heavily promoted films failed to live up to the hype. We had the now normal slew of Superhero movies of varying qualit...