Author: Brian Robinson

It would be interesting to note how many of the modern, younger cinema audience would, if asked, recognise the name Ray Harryhausen. Certainly, a good amount of them

Karl Urban is Judge Dredd. It’s a simple as that. He and the filmmakers Pete Travis, Alex Garland and Andrew MacDonald have now given us the most definitive take

From the outset it must be noted that Len Wiseman’s 2012 version of Total Recall is a direct remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven film, not another adaptation

By now most will have heard of the sudden and tragic death of director Tony Scott, who took his own life by leaping from the Vincent Thomas Bridge

Seven years after the Batman was rebooted and revolutionised in the eyes of the audience, Christopher Nolan’s saga of Bruce Wayne has come full circle, resulting in a

The Amazing Spider-Man is preceded by an awful lot of presumption and cynicism, and it is also impossible to discuss without mention of Sam Raimi’s films. A “reboot”

Back in 2008, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) got home after his first bout of super-heroics and outing himself as Iron Man to find Nick Fury (Samuel L

Summer blockbuster season is in full swing, but very few films actually do bust down cityblocks, and if any are going to do it, it’s going to be

The summer movie blockbuster season is truly with us, and on a raft of ebullient studio publicity and less enthusiastic word of mouth, arrives Green Lantern.  Does it

What are the odds of a director who walked out of a franchise being welcomed back by the studio to helm a later entry?  Not something many directors have experienced, but perhaps for Matthew