It’s official; Dr Doug Ross, long beloved of housewives, students and anyone else sad enough to watch ER ten years ago, is not only a Major Hollywood Player, but now also a Serious Motion Picture Director. For his second stint behind the camera, George Clooney has chosen a deeply personal project, the story of 1950’s US TV anchorman Edward R. Murrow, and his on-air battles with Senator Joseph McCarthy, leader of the communist witch-hunts which had Middle America scared of [...]

Peyton Reed is a very brave man. After starting his Hollywood career with underrated wish-fulfilment fantasy cheerleader movie Bring It On, a movie understandably but unfairly remembered primarily for its casting, he gives us underrated knockabout throwback rom-com Down With Love… A movie dismissed as kitsch. Despite the genius stroke of casting David Hyde Pierce. And now the poor bastard’s third consecutive brave move, history’s least romantic rom-com, has to endure the fallout of Brad’n’Jen, and the “Are they? Aren’t [...]

There’s a semi-bearded gentleman sitting nervously to my right. We’re discussing Aussie horror flick, Wolf Creek. He didn’t like it, but I’m explaining the magic of cutting your the lead actresses fingers off. During our awkward lapses in conversation, I’m wondering why my right hand has turned a pinky-blue. But what’s really troubling me is the poster I saw downstairs; a man in shiny Aviator shades, grinning a toothy and demonic grin with the slogan: “I will try to use [...]