Author Daniel Orton

Not a day goes by that I don’t think about this film, but it isn’t a film I would like to watch again anytime soon. Room is the story of Jack, a five-year-old boy born and brought up in captivity; he is...

Alla Nazimova, the famed Broadway star of the early 1900s, apparently once said that “sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.” So without further ado...

Dr Hannibal Lecter is without doubt the most terrifying villain ever to grace the big screen. FACT. The AFI has voted him the Number One villain of the last 100 years, out-villaining even the murderous loner...

If you aren’t a fan of having sex in public places then seeing The Martian was probably the most fun you could have had in a cinema in 2015. The Martian is the story of the eponymous Mark Watney (Matt...

Spectre’s plot is simple enough, and largely follows the same beats as Skyfall: a sinister figure from Bond’s past, interfering bureaucrats, parts of London being blown up. This isn’t necessarily a...

The last of his kind. That was how Tim Burton described Sir Christopher Lee last week after the actor passed away at the age of 93. Of course, it is perhaps fair to say that Sir Christopher was the only one of...

From the moment Ty Simpkins throws open the hotel window shutters and we first see a sweeping aerial view of Jurassic World, with John Williams’ iconic score blaring out triumphantly, you know you’re in...

What do Oliver Reed, Brandon Lee, Natalie Wood and Paul Walker all have in common? The answer to that rather macabre pub quiz question is that all of them are examples of actors who have died during production...

Reasons to love The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: the cast; India looking beautiful; the warm, uplifting hug of a story; Richard Gere’s hair. That brochure alone is worth the second trip to the Best...

On the face of it, Trash is essentially Five Go on the Run in Rio: an adventure mystery with plucky street teenagers, priests, coded messages, murderous villains, and buried treasure. At its heart though...

Recently I have become quite obsessed with the George Ezra song 'Listen To The Man'. To put it more accurately, I have become quite obsessed with the song’s accompanying music video that stars the inimitable...

Last month we took a look at the somewhat odd, but not unwelcome, increase in films based on factual events. 221 such films have been released since 2000; 200 were released in the century before that. That...

What this tornado flick lacks in sharks, it makes up for in stunning visual effects, and is certainly the most fun disaster movie since The Day After Tomorrow. Excuse Armitage’s dodgy accent, the...

When I was about seven or eight years old, I found myself perusing my grandparents’ shelf of VHS tapes. In amongst the Tommy Cooper compilations and boxes of Turkish Delight one tape caught my eye. It was...

About halfway through Superman Returns, the Man of Steel says to Lois Lane: “You wrote that the world doesn’t need a saviour, but every day I hear people crying for one.” It’s pretty deep, and taps...