Michael Haneke is a filmmaker that divides audiences and critics alike. His films of often difficult watches, interesting and intriguing (and occasionaly confusing) but difficult. 'Funny Games' (1998) was no exception, a story about a family that are held captive in their lakeside holiday home and slowly tortured (physically and mentally) and made to play [...]

No, not the new Ed Norton film but rather the latest animated opus from Sylvain Chomet, the writer/director behind the brilliant 'Belleville Rendezvous' AKA 'The Triplets of Belleville'. Chomet is currently working on three new projects at a studio in Edinburgh.
'The illusionist' is  apparently based on an original story by influential french filmmaker Jacques Tati [...]

Severance Charity premier, Leicester Square, unoffical opening to Frightfest.
I conducted an interview with the writer of Severance, James Moran, a couple of days ago (my first real interview) and if you read it you'll see he was a very cool guy. So I'm really glad I liked the film as much as I [...]

The trailer for the new Friedkin film 'Bug' has finally hit. The film has been finished for about 6 months and was shown to critics at cannes were it gathered a favourable response.
We posted earlier about some clips of the film that had hit the web, but from the footage it was quite unclear what [...]

Ridley Scott is a busy man, he's got 'A Good Year' coming out in October, and he's in the middle of shooting 'American Gangster', both films starring Scott's man of the moment Russell Crowe. Chiwetel Ejiofor, The RZA and John Ortiz have all been named to join the already full cast.
Denzel Washington will play [...]

Severance could be set to be the biggest british horror-comedy since 'Shaun of the Dead', writer James Moran was kind enough to lend us his time to chat about the writing of his first feature film, the process of carrying the script through to the screen and his favourite bits from John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.
This [...]

'Old Joy' has only come to my attention becuase I was browsing throught the recently released trailers on the apple site. Two good reasons behind why I really want to see this film; 1. I'm a sucker for these independent Road movies, films like 'Box of Moonlight' or 'Two Lane Blacktop', and 2. It has [...]