It is coming up to the end of 2011, and I have been lucky enough to get my hands on quite a rare thing — the first ever issue of The Edge, circa October 1995. Gone is the monochromatic newspaper format — these days we are now in full colour! But don’t think that we…

93 disaster movies were released in the 1990’s. How many of them can you name? This writer recalls about 20 off the top of his head, and accepts the remainder must be so obscure that only the geekiest of film fanatics can name them. This genre, and its depiction of quivering, paranoid and panic shopping…
The town in question is Charlestown, where this crime drama based on Chuck Hogan’s novel “Prince of Thieves” is set, and where criminality is seen as a way of life proudly passed from father to son. It’s written and directed by Ben Affleck who also stars as Doug MacRay, the leader of a vicious gang…