The classic Coen Brothers movie Fargo has earn a remastered Blu-ray re-release and is the DISCussion Recommendation of the Week. The remastered version comes with a commentary from Director of Photography Roger Deakins and a featurette. First Releases – Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (DVD and Blu-ray) – 47 Ronin (DVD and Blu-ray) – […]
Hullo world! Anime Monday took an unexpected hiatus (sorry readers!), but we are finally back. Here’s to the last Monday of March, which is about to get a whole lot better. Let’s get the gears turning for this week’s flick – Robot Carnival. A first for Anime Monday, Robot Carnival unlike its predecessors is an […]
Jump to Last Week’s Episode This week on The Plot Hole we run the full gantlet, all the way from trailers for beloved literary properties to all the twisted T&A you could want, courtesy of Lars Von Trier and our look at both volumes of sex saga Nymphomaniac. That and much more this time round […]
The adaptation of The Book Thief has just been released onto DVD and Blu-ray, the first Hollywood movie to be directed by Brian Percival. So now is a great time to look at his directional debut, the highly controversial 2003 TV Movie Pleasureland. Joanna “Jo” Mosscroft (Katie Lyon) is a 14-year-old Scouser girl in Year […]
Dystopia sci-fi is an ever popular mainstay in British fiction with novels like Nineteen Eighty-Four and A Brave New World being published and set in the nation. One movie that is loosely based on a novel that takes both a top-down and bottom-up approach is Alfonso Cuarón’s brilliant Children of Men. In 2027, humanity is […]
This week on The Plot Hole it’s all about sequels, reboots and superheroes (not necessarily in that order). We’ll begin with a look back on the career of the late Harold Ramis whose career in front of and behind the camera has left a huge impact on the world of comedy before moving on to developments across […]
The 1964 war movie Zulu is very popular in Britain, helping to embed the Battle of Rorke’s Drift into the public consciousness and is a fantastic entry in the war movie genre, influencing the likes of Ridley Scott and Peter Jackson. In 1879, the British army suffered a humiliating defeat against the Zulus after the […]
Marvel’s making a space movie about gun-toting rodents and man-trees. Wait, raccoons aren’t rodents are they? That doesn’t sound right. Ugh, I got to look it up. A procyonid? The hell is that? OH, that’s what a kinkajou is! I used to watch them eat fruits on Zaboomafoo. Why aren’t there more kinkajous in movies? […]
The Magdalene Asylums and the treatment an estimated 30,000 ‘fallen’ women is one of the great shames on the Irish nation and the Catholic Church, which the Irish government only apologized for in 2013. The British-Irish co-production of The Magdalene Sisters set out to tell the true story of a group of young women who […]
Months after fans had received a sneak peak at last years San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios has finally shown us what Guardians of the Galaxy looks like. The trailer can be seen here, where it premiered earlier tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel had on Guardian star Chris Pratt, who stars as Peter Quill aka Star-Lord, to talk […]
