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Waffleween - Tony Moran Interview


Tony Moran was the face of Michael Myers in John Carpenter's "Halloween". We caught up with him for a chat about those days and what he's been up to since.

New Release Review - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Directed by: Stephen Chbosky
Starring: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson,Ezra Miller, Nina Dobrev, Dylan McDermott, Joan Cusack, Kate Walsh, Paul Rudd, Mae Whitman

Following a breakdown brought on by his friend's suicide, freshman Logan enters High School, making friends with seniors Watson and Miller.

New Release Review - Skyfall

Directed by: Sam Mendes
Starring: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Helen McCrory, Bérénice Marlohe, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Albert Finney 

Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in the series' 23rd installment.

New Release Review - Looper

Directed by: Rian Johnson
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, Noah Segan, Garrett Dillahunt

In 2044, Gordon-Levitt is a "looper", a hitman who disposes of victims sent back in time from thirty years in the future. His latest target however is his future self.

Great Movie Posters - Halloween


First Time Watches - September 2012

Elmer Gantry (1960)
Burt Lancaster is thrilling as a travelling salesman who hooks up with  an evangelist troupe, initially with the intention of seducing young preacher Jean Simmons.

New Release Review - Savages

Directed by: Oliver Stone
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Benicio Del Toro

When Lively is kidnapped by Hayek's Mexican drug cartel, it's up to her two lovers, Taylor-Johnson and Kitsch, to get her back.

Hooray for Wakaliwood!

Isaac Nabwana is a true maverick, producing, directing and editing action movies from his home in the slums of Wakaliga, Uganda. American film-maker Alan Ssali Hofmanis was inspired to make him the subject of his new documentary "Wakaliwood". The Movie Waffler caught up with Hofmanis to hear his fantastic story.

New Release Review - Tower Block

Directed by: James Nunn, Ronnie Thompson
Starring: Sheridan Smith, Jack O'Connell, Ralph Brown, Russell Tovey

The residents of a tower block's top floor find themselves held under siege by a sniper.

New Release Review - House at the End of the Street

Directed by: Mark Tonderai
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue, Max Thieriot, Gil Bellows

Lawrence falls for neighbor Thieriot whose sister disappeared after killing his parents.

New Release Review - Arbitrage

Directed by: Nicholas Jarecki
Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth, Laetitia Casta, Nate Parker

New York magnate Gere flees the scene of an accident and calls in help from the son of a deceased employee, Parker.

New Release Review - Killing Them Softly

Directed by: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Vincent Curatola, Sam Shepard

Pitt's hitman is hired by Jenkins to punish those responsible for the armed hold-up of a poker game.

Pre-Code Retrospective - Little Caesar (1931)


Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr, Stanley Fields

The violent and ruthless rise of gangster Caesar Enrico Bandelli (Robinson).

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.