News
One Direction: This is Us Press Conference Report: Part 1
Earlier in the year, we were lucky enough to head to Mexico for the annual Summer of Sony event where we got to interview numerous celebrities from movies that Sony are releasing over the next six months. So far, you’ve seen our coverage from After Earth but we’ve got loads more for you in the [...]
Sam Taylor-Johnson to Direct Fifty Shades of Grey
The wait is over. In the past two years, E.L. James’ 50 Shades of Grey and its two sequels have gone on to become one of the most-read and most-talked about novels of our time. Whatever your feelings may be on the trilogy, there’s no denying that it achieved almost overnight cult status. And, needless [...]
Star Wars Episode VII Character Profiles Spotted in the Wild
From Florence (minus her Machines) to Fringeman John Noble to Jonathan Rhys Meyers the Star Wars Episode VII casting couch is a crowded and mysterious place right now. Names enter the rumour mill and are, for the most part, spat out quickly while fanboy dreams crumble around them and until now we’ve had a few [...]
First Images from Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave with Chiwetel Ejiofor
Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years a Slave has long been one of our must-see movies of the year, promising to be a strong Oscar contender come the end of the year. Chiwetel Ejiofor takes the lead as Northup, and educated and married black man living in 1853 New York who gets kidnapped and forced into slavery [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Barry Pepper on Snitch
Barry Pepper is an instantly recognisable presence on the big screen, something which can be a burden for a character actor. However the actor has a habit of disappearing into his roles and finding something compelling every time. We had the chance to sit down with Pepper to talk about his latest film, Snitch, in [...]
Steve Carell talks Gru’s Changing Evil Priorities in New Featurette for Despicable Me 2
With Despicable Me 2 hitting theatres in the coming weeks, and the Minions spin-off movie set for the end of next year, things continue to look excellent for the relatively young animation house, Illumination Entertainment. As a huge fan of the original film, I can’t wait to see Despicable Me 2 in the next few [...]
New Clips from The Internship with Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson – ‘Exchangeagram’
Reuniting Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson for the first time since Wedding Crashers, The Internship is a comedy I’ve been looking forward to ever since it was first announced. Vaughn and Wilson’s chemistry back in 2005 was absolutely brilliant on the big screen, and I can’t wait to see what they’re like this time around. [...]
Here’s a look at a Deleted Scene from the Broken City DVD
Allen Hughes takes on his first feature solo with Broken City, which has Mark Wahlberg as a private investigator hired by MYC Mayor Russell Crowe to investigate his wife, whom he suspects is having an affair. The Hughes Brothers have made some interesting choices along the way, from the urban horror stories of Menace II [...]
Reviews
Shun Li and the Poet Review
In merely a coincidental set of circumstances, Andrea Segre’s Shun Li and the Poet arrives in UK cinemas on the very same day as Like Someone in Love – as two completely separate films that both focus in on the tale of an oriental woman, building the unlikeliest of platonic relationships with a man twice [...]
Despicable Me 2 Review
Would you like to watch a grown man die in the most macho way possible? Would you be entertained by a woman swooping through the skies on her handbag hang glider? Would you happily hand over your hard-earned to see a formerly despicable man fall helplessly in love? Well then, Despicable Me 2 may be [...]
Like Someone in Love Review
Though cinephiles across the world are seeking out all of the In Competition films from this years Cannes Film Festival, it’s a picture from last year’s event that has finally made it’s way to the UK, and given the absorbing nature of this delicately crafted relationship drama, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love is certainly [...]
Admission Review
It’s incredibly hard to get excited about a film like Admission. Two immensely (and effortlessly) likable leads aside, Paul Weitz’s film is crushingly bland, and that carries a particular irony given that it revolves around a process which places a great deal of importance on standing out. Tina Fey plays an Admissions Officer at Princeton [...]
Black Rock Review
We’ve all been there when, you know, one moment you’re fighting and bickering with your old friend and the next thing you know you’re both completely naked and having a cuddle in the woods. No? Well, that’s just one of many unfathomable aspects to Katie Aselton’s sophomore feature Black Rock. We begin with what appears [...]
Summer in February Review
Nothing quite stirs the emotions than a love triangle, and a period love triangle at that, set at the turn of the 19th Century where reserved nature and stuffy social standing all but marred many burning fledgling romances. The frustrations felt fuel the desire to see love served correctly and make for engaging cinematic material. [...]
Stuck In Love Review
Greg Kinnear plays William Borgens, an acclaimed author respected by many, who spends his days longing for his now ex-wife, Jennifer Connelly, and helping his two children any way he can. His eldest, Samantha (Lily collins) is a very free-spirited, romantically cynical college student who, at 19, is about to have her first book published, [...]
Man of Steel Review
Following the uneasy transition into the twenty-first century Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan have delivered an exciting and relentlessly entertaining Superman film, one which will have the Man of Steel’s fans rejoicing that, finally, Superman Returns. Throwing the reins to Snyder may have seemed a risky move following the reception of 300 and Watchmen however [...]
Features
EIFF 2013: Ten Films To See
The 67th Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off this evening with the European premiere of Breathe In, Drake Doremus’ dark family drama starring Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce, and then continues for a further eleven days until it draws to a close with the world premiere of John McKay’s romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending. [...]
The HeyUGuys Instant Watching Viewer’s Guide – June 2013
Remember ten years ago when you would be in HMV looking at a DVD box set of something like The West Wing and then unfolding the twenty pound note in your pocket and wondering whether to part with all that cash for something you had never seen? You had just heard that someone somewhere liked it, [...]
Now You See Them – Do Magic Movies Make Movie Magic?
Louis Leterrier’s Now You See Me is currently open in the US, and opens in the UK on July 3rd. It stars Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher and Woody Harrelson as a team of magicians that perform in Las Vegas, wowing audiences whilst simultaneously robbing banks, sharing the proceeds with their audience. Whilst there have been [...]
Blu-ray and DVD Round up 17th June 2013
Each week we take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of the home entertainment offerings, reviewing and rating the films and the special features packed onto the discs. Here are the essential picks from the releases out on the 17th of June 2013. Release of the Week To The [...]
Six Of The Best (and Worst) – Animated Films
Launching into this is always going to be a fairly thankless exercise. The sheer number of animated films makes this tricky enough, let alone the variety in style, tone and technique. Classic hand-drawn animation (The Jungle Book), anime/manga (Fist of the North Star), CG animation (Toy Story), overlaid animation (rotoscoping – A Scanner Darkly), stop-motion [...]
Interviews
One Direction: This is Us Press Conference Report: Part 1
Earlier in the year, we were lucky enough to head to Mexico for the annual Summer of Sony event where we got to interview numerous celebrities from movies that Sony are releasing over the next six months. So far, you’ve seen our coverage from After Earth but we’ve got loads more for you in the [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Barry Pepper on Snitch
Barry Pepper is an instantly recognisable presence on the big screen, something which can be a burden for a character actor. However the actor has a habit of disappearing into his roles and finding something compelling every time. We had the chance to sit down with Pepper to talk about his latest film, Snitch, in [...]
Interview: Man of Steel Producers Charles Roven & Deborah Snyder talk a Modern Superman
Man of Steel is unleashed on a very expectant public today and we had some time with producers Deborah Snyder and Charles Rovan to chat all things Superman. We talked about the inception of the project, a more restrained Man of Steel and the alien influence on Superman. You can read our review of Man [...]
Interview: David Goyer talks The Wider World of Superman and a Man of Steel Sequel
David Goyer is one of the most important people in the cinematic DC universe right now. Shepherding the Batman trilogy to the big screen clearly wasn’t enough and quickly he and DC Godfather Christopher Nolan went to work on a new take on Superman. The result was Man of Steel and today the waiting world [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Amy Acker & Alexis Denisof talk Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
Following a record-breaking release in the US last weekend, Joss Whedon’s masterful adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing arrives on our shores today. And if you’re heading out to the cinema over the weekend, make sure you see this film, because it is a true work of art. The film reunites Whedon with a lot [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Lily Collins discusses Stuck in Love
Though much of the attention surrounding Lily Collins this summer is The Mortal Instruments related, she has since appeared in a more modest sized independent feature Stuck in Love, and we had the pleasure of sitting down with the young actress to discuss the Josh Boone production that hits our screens on June 14th. Collins [...]
