News
New Trailer for Ron Howard’s Rush with Chris Hemsworth
Ron Howard’s Rush has long been one of our most anticipated films of the year. The film, a Formula 1 biographical drama centred on the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, will be released in theatres this September, and I have a feeling it’s going to be a strong contender come Oscar season. Viewers [...]
The Hangover 3 Interview – Director Todd Phillips
Our friend James Kleinmann got to chat with the Writer / Director Todd Phillips, the man behind all the the Hangover movies. In the interview, James asks Todd about what it was about the story that they wanted to bring to the screen and how it would move on from the previous two films. This [...]
Infographic – Tarantino Unchained
This week saw the release of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film Django Unchained, a brutal story of revenge set in the Deep South, prompting Tarantino to dub his film ‘a Southern’. Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz (in another Oscar winning role), and Leonardo Di Caprio, Django is the second of Tarantino’s Rewritten History trilogy after the [...]
Dan Aykroyd talks Ghostbusters 3, Needing New Recruits, Advancing the Tech & 3D
Ghostbusters 3 has been plagued by delay after delay, but leading man Dan Aykroyd promises that the film is very much still being developed. We recently heard that the film is set to revolve around some new research being done by particle physicists at Columbia University. Whilst speaking to Digital Spy, along with discussing his [...]
New 60-Second TV Spot for Fast and Furious 6 – ‘All Roads Lead to This’
Justin Lin’s Fast and Furious 6 became the highest-grossing opening weekend for Universal here in the UK last weekend, and now it’s just one day away from landing in US cinemas, where it’s naturally expected to open to big numbers. With the film already in cinemas on our shores, a great new 60-second UK TV [...]
Martial Law Declared in Action-Packed New TV Spots for World War Z with Brad Pitt
With Brad Pitt front and centre for the zombie blockbuster, there’s no way that I’m not seeing World War Z when it hits the cinema. The film promises to be a zombie movie quite unlike any we’ve seen before, going for the huge scope that’s relatively unknown to the typically lower-budgeted genre. I’ve been hugely [...]
Exclusive Featurette: Josh Brolin on O’Mara for Gangster Squad
Ahead of the film’s release on DVD and Blu-ray Monday 27th May, we’ve been given this exclusive featurette from Gangster Squad. The featurette features one of the main cast members Josh Brolin talking about his character John O’Mara. He talks about how he’s an old fashioned cop with honour and the need to protect his [...]
Top Ten Perfect Biopic Casting Choices
Ah, the biopic. It’s one of the most revered and resilient genres of cinema past and present. The formula is simple: make a movie about a well-known public figure, preferably one with a checkered past, form your narrative around the tone of their upbringing (usually a dramatic one) and sell the film as a “revealing [...]
Reviews
Cannes 2013: Like Father, Like Son Review
Hirokazu Koreeda’s latest in a run of tender explorations of family dynamics rests on a rather unusual high concept, the idea of two children being swapped at birth in a hospital and the error not being discovered until much later. The two children, six year-old boys named Keita and Ryusei, have had very different experiences [...]
Cannes 2013: Only God Forgives Review
Nicolas Winding Refn gained something of a cult following after Drive, his previous team up with Ryan Gosling, and the film even gained the Danish filmmaker a number of fans who would most likely usually favour more mainstream fare. His and Gosling’s follow-up, Only God Forgives, has just premiered at Cannes, playing in Competition, but [...]
Cannes 2013: Monsoon Shootout Review
Adi (Vijay Varma) arrives full of idealistic enthusiasm for his first day as a cop, but he quickly learns that the police force may not be the honest guardians of justice that he thought they were. He’s quickly embroiled in the deep rooted corruption of the police department when he’s instructed to cover up the [...]
Something in the Air Review
In a similar vein to his most recent project Carlos, renowned French filmmaker Olivier Assayas returns with Something in the Air, yet again proving his distinct talent for placing the viewer in a particular period, and immersing us within this world unbeknown to our own, as a director who has a real knack for finding [...]
Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis Review
The Greenwich Village Folk scene of the early sixties provides the setting for the Coen Brothers’ wonderfully meandering portrait of a struggling folk musician. The folk setting does not define Inside Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) though, Llewyn is in many ways more a representative of artists in general and in particular one struggling to have [...]
The Hangover Part III Review
If you speak to just about anyone over the age of 30, they’ll tell you that hangovers get worse with age. Well, on this evidence, they’re right, as we get ready to step back into Todd Phillips’ The Hangover franchise, with the third and – thankfully – final addition to the celebrated comedy. Having survived [...]
Cannes 2013: Behind the Candelabra Review
Whilst Side Effects has received a lot of publicity for potentially being Steven Soderbergh’s last film, the HBO produced Behind the Candelabra is currently playing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and will receive a theatrical release throughout Europe next month. ‘TV Movies’ have played Cannes before and they will no doubt play here [...]
Cannes 2013: Takashi Miike’s Wara No Tate Review
Takashi Miike returns to Cannes with perhaps his most conventional film yet, an overblown but highly entertaining thriller about five cops transporting a despicable child murderer across Japan. Tatsuya Fujiwara, who is perhaps best know in the West for his portrayal of the naive and sweet Nanahara in Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale, plays Kiyomaru, the [...]
Features
Top Ten Perfect Biopic Casting Choices
Ah, the biopic. It’s one of the most revered and resilient genres of cinema past and present. The formula is simple: make a movie about a well-known public figure, preferably one with a checkered past, form your narrative around the tone of their upbringing (usually a dramatic one) and sell the film as a “revealing [...]
Sponsored Post – Top Ten: Most Unlikely Romantic Movies Scenes
Love love love… It can be both wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time but it’s a topic that will no doubt be heavy on our hearts from now until the end of time. Cornetto have released four short films in their Cupidity in the embed below (or on their Facebook page here) showing their [...]
Star Trek Into Darkness: Mediocrity Gets A Familiar Face
The blockbuster season has started. It might not be summer quite yet, but already we have seen some of this year’s biggest movies released into theatres. Iron Man Three, Oblivion, and Fast and Furious 6 have all entertained and frustrated audiences in equal measure. The biggest success so far, critically at least, is Star Trek [...]
Six of the Best Tarantino Scenes
The films of Quentin Tarantino offer many potential choices when you’re compiling a collection with the title you see above. The obvious choices spring gleefully to mind: the countless bodies falling at the sword of The Bride in the slaughter of The Crazy 88, the final stand off between Mr White, Nice Guy Eddie and [...]
Six Of The Best: Clint Eastwood Acting Performances
Having already looked at Clint Eastwood’s prodigious output as a director, with genuinely top drawer work spread across the past forty years, it seems like a good time to look at his work as an actor too as his latest film, Trouble with the Curve, is out on DVD now. After his first significant big [...]
Interviews
The Hangover 3 Interview – Director Todd Phillips
Our friend James Kleinmann got to chat with the Writer / Director Todd Phillips, the man behind all the the Hangover movies. In the interview, James asks Todd about what it was about the story that they wanted to bring to the screen and how it would move on from the previous two films. This [...]
The Hangover 3 European Premiere Interviews
This evening Ashley Scott and I headed down to Leicester Square for the European Premiere of the third installment of The Hangover titled (creatievly) The Hangover 3! Stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham and Director Todd Phillips who were all in attendance and we got to speak with [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Aziz Ansari & Chris O’Dowd on Epic, Animated Films and…Short Circuit?!
Aziz Ansari and Chris O’Dowd are arguably two of the most talked about comedic actors working today. They star in two of TV’s most critically-acclaimed shows (PARKS AND RECREATION, GIRLS) and they each have very devoted fan bases. In EPIC, the two actors star as Mub and Grub – a slug and snail who are [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Epic Director Chris Wedge talks Movies, Inspiration & Live Action
Director Chris Wedge returns to the world of animation with his new film EPIC, and we got a chance to sit down and chat with him about the project. EPIC is tells the story of an “epic” battle in the forest among a race of small warriors to preserve the beauty and peace of the [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Colin Farrell Talks Epic, Saving Mr. Banks and Martin McDonagh
Anytime you get a chance to talk to Colin Farrell, you take it. So that’s exactly what we did. The actor appears in EPIC, a new animated film from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. Farrell plays Ronin, the leader of an army of rather small soldiers called the Leafmen, who are tasked with [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Saoirse Ronan talks blood, guts and vampires for new movie Byzantium
When predicting the future of some of the brightest young stars in world cinema, there are few who have the genuine potential to go on to achieve as much success as Saoirse Ronan, and the already Oscar nominated Irish actress (Atonement) now stars alongside Gemma Arteton, in Neil Jordan’s dark and supernatural thriller Byzantium. Ronan, [...]
