Superman Summer - Superman Returns (2006)

Directed by: Bryan Singer

Starring: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, James Marsden, Parker Posey, Frank Langella, Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Sam Huntington

After five years searching for the remains of Krypton, Superman returns to Metropolis.

New Release Review - The Sweeney

Directed by: Nick Love

Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Drew, Hayley Atwell, Damian Lewis, Kara Tointon, Steven Mackintosh, Alan Ford

Big screen adaptation of the popular seventies U.K TV show.

Dead Format Month - The Reel Deal: Growing Up With Super 8

Ruairi Kavanagh remembers the magic of a room in the house dedicated to cinema and Super-8.

New Release Review - Lawless

Directed by: John Hillcoat

Starring: Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman, Noah Taylor

The story of the Bondurant brothers who ran a bootlegging operation in prohibition era Missouri.

New Release Review - Now Is Good

Directed by: Ol Parker

Starring: Dakota Fanning, Rose Leslie, Olivia Williams, Jeremy Irvine, Kaya Scodelario, Paddy Considine

Terminal leukemia sufferer Fanning falls for neighbor Irvine.

Dead Format Month - How The West Was Won (1962)

Directed by: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe

Starring: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Carroll Baker, Lee J Cobb, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, Walter Brennan, Raymond Massey, Agnes Moorehead, Thelma Ritter, Russ Tamblyn, Spencer Tracy, Harry Dean Stanton, Lee Van Cleef

An epic family drama which deals with the Civil War, the Gold Rush and the dawn of the railroad, all shot in Cinerama.

New Release Review - Dredd

Directed by: Pete Travis

Starring: Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Domhnall Gleeson

Second screen adaptation of the British comic strip.

New Release Review - Anna Karenina

Directed by: Joe Wright

Starring: Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Kelly MacDonald, Olivia Williams, Matthew MacFadyen, Emily Watson, Domhnall Gleeson

In nineteenth century Russia, wealthy wife Anna Karenina (Knightley) embarks on an affair with young Count Vronsky (Taylor-Johnson).

Dead Format Month - Wiiiiiiiidescreeeeen

In an age when we can enjoy watching DVDS, Blu-Rays and online films on a large screen TV and surround sound system in our living room (or home theater room if you're lucky), the thrill of a cinema visit isn't what it used to be. In the mid twentieth century, television sets were appearing in more and more homes, leading Hollywood to look for new ways to entice people back to the cinema. 3D was attempted unsuccessfully but what did work was the enlarging of the screen itself to give us what's now known collectively as "widescreen". Various widescreen formats competed for your dollar in the fifties and sixties. Here we take a look at the successful and not so successful variants.

Great Movie Posters - Wiiiiiiiidescreeeen

New Release Review - Compliance

Directed by: Craig Zobel

Starring: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, Ashlie Atkinson

Posing as a police officer, sociopath Healy calls a fast food restaurant and accuses a staff member of stealing from a customer.

New Release Review - Premium Rush

Directed by: David Koepp

Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Wole Parks, Jamie Chung

Manhattan bike courier Gordon-Levitt finds himself being chased by crooked cop Shannon who desperately needs the mysterious ticket he has been hired to deliver to Chinatown.

Superman Summer - Superman 4: The Quest For Peace (1987)

Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wanamaker, Mariel Hemingway, Mark Pillow, Jim Broadbent

Using a strand of Superman's hair, Lex Luthor creates Nuclear Man.

New Release Review - The Possession

Directed by: Ole Bornedal

Starring: Natasha Calis, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Matisyahu, Grant Show, Madison Davenport

After purchasing a wooden box at a yard sale, Morgan's ten year old daughter Calis becomes possessed by a Dybbuk, a spirit from Jewish folklore.

New Release Review - Berberian Sound Studio

Directed by: Peter Strickland

Starring: Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco, Suzy Kendall, Antonio Mancino, Susanna Cappellaro

Mild mannered sound technician Jones becomes increasingly disturbed while working on an Italian horror film.

New Release Review - Lola Versus

Directed by: Daryl Wein

Starring: Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister Jones, Hamish Linklater, Joel Kinnaman, Bill Pullman, Debra Winger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Gerwig reassesses her love-life after her fiance Kinnaman walks away from the relationship.

Dead Format Month - Why Laserdiscs?

Laserdisc fan Denny Spangler on why he loves those big shiny discs.

Superman Summer - Supergirl (1984)

Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

Starring: Helen Slater, Faye Dunaway, Peter O'Toole, Peter Cook, Marc McClure, Hart Bochner, Mia Farrow, Brenda Vaccaro, Maureen Teefy

Superman's cousin Kara (Slater) travels to earth to retrieve a mystical orb which has fallen into the hands of a witch (Dunaway).

New Release Review - VHS

Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Chad Villella, Ti West, Adam Wingard

Starring: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard, Hannah Fierman, Mike Donlan, Joe Sykes 

Anthology of six horror stories told from a found footage perspective.

Dead Format Month - 35mm

Photography enthusiast John Saltwell looks back fondly on a format which, after over a century in existence, is now becoming little more than a nostalgic memory.