A movie version of the beloved Hergé books and television show has been on the cards for a number of years. Stemming back to the early 80′s where Spielberg hired E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial writer, Melissa Mathison, to pen a script, the maestro has seen the process through thirty years on to direct the $130m spectacle. Now sees a collaborative...

Birdsong is the latest TV drama to be aired on the BBC, as it focuses on the experiences of Stephen Wraysford (Eddie Redmayne), during the First World War. The two-part novel adaptation is based on the memoirs of our protagonist during his time serving in the army and via a series of flashbacks that document an interesting love affair with a married woman...

This review by the mighty Danny Dickblood. For those of you with a sensitive nature please take note that there may be swearing ahead. Buckle up and enjoy the ride. Awwww…LOCKOUT. You know the story—prison in space, inmates break out and take hostages. One of them happens to be the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace). The authorities send in a lone...

by: H.Blain I saw this as a red carpet event at the 36th Atlanta Film Festival on Friday night, with director Carrie Preston in attendance. The crowd was buzzing with overheard bits of “I KNOW that woman… where from?” and “Is she in the movie?” – and Preston was appropriately Hollywood in a swanky black and white dress with legs for...

This review by David Hughes. Werner Herzog has been making documentaries almost as long as he has been making films; indeed, many of his most celebrated fiction films, including Aguirre, Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Fitzcarraldo, documented aspects of the lives of real-life figures. Although he has recently made further excursions into...

By: Maria Alexopoulos The latest and fourth instalment of the Underworld series, Awakening is now available for pre-sale on DVD with a release date of May 14th, 2012. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to watch it in the cinema this past January, and now find yourself pondering whether to scurry your way to the front of the...

A mostly spoiler free review by Øivind Rosvold. I watched this movie in Trondheim/Norway at the Kosmorama Film Festival. All the seats where filled and you could tell there where a lot of people in the audience that where eager to see this film, and had been for a long time, including me. There where even some cosplay of soldiers running around before the...

by: H. Blain The 36th Annual Atlanta Film Festival started tonight, and while I did not make it into the Opening Gala film L!FE HAPPENS,  I did see one VERRRY interesting, weird, trippy, jaded and cynical piece of cinema called GENERATION P.  It is a Russian film, and rather than go the traditional review route, since I honestly don’t know how I can...

As you are no doubt aware The Hunger Games is in cinemas from today. Based on the novel by Suzanne Collins it has a huge fan-base and I went to see the film last night with a group of other Liverpool based film bloggers (hello to you all). Before I go any further let me say that I read The Hunger Games last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. I read it over a...

This review by David Hughes author of the excellent Tales From Development Hell. If you’re planning to film an adaptation of one of Irvine Welsh’s stories, you would probably do well to steer clear of anything that reminds your audience of a certain other Welsh adaptation from 1996. You’d be wise not to set the scene with a first person Scottish...