Fifty Shades of Cinema: 1989 – Born On The Fourth of July

Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell looking at Born on The Fourth of July starring Tom Cruise and Willem Dafoe. The Contenders 1989 offers a cinematic landscape loaded with many good, and some great, titles.  Once again, selecting the best of the bunch is no mean feat. Indy is back in action in the exhilarating Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade; plus there’s action of a different kind in Tim Burton’s revisionist superhero... Read More

Fifty Shades of Cinema: 1987 – The Untouchables

Fifty Shades of Cinema continues with Jonathon Dabell taking  a look at The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. The Contenders 1987 is a year full of good, solid cinema – as always, the act of choosing one film above the rest is tricky. John Huston directs his final – and some say best – film with an adaptation of James Joyce’s The Dead; Mel Gibson and Danny Glover team up for the first of the Lethal Weapon... Read More

Opinion: Top 5 Movie Showdowns

FMV Magazine’s Simon Collings takes a look at the unforgettable scenes he considers worthy of being named the Top 5 Movie ‘Showdowns.’ Cinema can offer up many great moments on the big screen.  Whether it’s an intense car-chase or an explosive shoot-out, the one sequence which grabs the most attention, and has the most impact upon a gripped audience, is the ‘showdown’ between two rival characters.  This doesn’t necessarily have to... Read More