Compelling cinema in the form of a documentary can be hard to come by when it’s not arguing a provocative social or political issue currently in vogue.  Typically, biopics are rarely reserved for anything more than a midday movie time-slot with the sole intent of selling rags-to-riches story to bored housewives. Thankfully, first-time documentarians Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont have crafted an insight into the life of musical [...]

Robert Rodriguez sparked a mass of internet buzz in 2007 with a faux trailer for a B-movie called Machete – more buzz, you might say, than the Grindhouse double-feature Death Proof and Planet Terror that accompanied it. While I personally loved watching stunt-woman Zoe Bell  kick the crap out of Kurt Russell in Death Proof and witnessing Black Eyed Peas’ front-woman Fergie get mauled by zombies in Planet Terror, Grindhouse fell flat at [...]

Buried, a butt-clenchingly claustrophobic thriller from first-time director Rodrigo Cortés, runs its basic premise well and truly into the ground – both literally and figuratively – and still manages to come out on top.

Working from Chris Sparling’s minimalist screenplay, Cortés has crafted an indie flick with more suspense than a Hitchcock movie marathon, taking the single location thriller to its most intimate and terrifying setting yet: [...]

After decades of mistreatment, The Dark Knight Detective is finally getting his due.

Over the years the fans have been subjected to the campy and satirical 60’s TV series starring Adam West , Tim Burton’s uneven and pseudo psychological blockbusters and, worst of all, Joel Schumacher’s god-awful cheese-fests such as Batman and Robin, one of the worst reviewed films of all time.