John’s Top Ten Of 2015

2015 was a year of contrasting fortunes for movies. On one hand it was spectacular for the bigger movies with the top nine films released this year making up for forty percent of the box office takin...

New Releases For December

‘Tis the month of good cheer, carol singers, jingle bells, and an endless deluge of Christmas movie re-runs. It is also traditionally a great month for cinema releases and 2015 looks no differe...

Girls On Film And Why I Want To Be The Hero

Fired up by the deeply moving Suffragette and the recent press about sexism in Hollywood, I have been thinking about the inequality in an art form that I love so much, I don’t think I could have made...

The Force Awakens Trailer – Music Only

If there was any doubt about it then the new Star Wars trailer has proved that an image can say much more that a thousand words. We are so familiar with the concepts and the recurring characters that...

The Force Awakens Comic-Con Reel

By far the most anticipated presentation of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con is the Star Wars Panel. As well as announcing details of the Han Solo stand alone film there was a behind the scenes ...

Star Wars Episode 7 Gets a Title

On the day that principal photography finished on the new Star Wars film it was announced on the official Star Wars twitter account that the film’s title will be The Force Awakens. The film, di...

The Chronicles of Riddick

It is difficult to find a contemporary Sci-Fi film that doesn’t try to please everyone. The gritty Elysium from last year, had a storyline that was almost a joke due to it’s overly earnes...