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IMDb Releases Its Top 10 ‘All-Decade’ Lists

IMDb has revealed the site’s top 10 most viewed actors, films, TV shows and in production movies in the last 10 years this week. More an indication of those in Hollywood who trend on the internet than any sort of performance-based ranking, they throw up precious few surprises. Johnny Depp tops the actors no doubt [...]

Russell Brand To Star As The Hauntrepreneur In Michael Bay’s Latest Production

Russell Brand has seemingly rebounded from Katy Perry into a Michael Bay production. He’s played a rockstar version of himself, a privileged version of himself, and at the start of his film career himself if he ever ended up a teacher in a school full of lingerie-clad 25-year-old schoolgirls. But now he’s set to return [...]

Deals Of The Day: Fantastic Blu-Ray Sale of 2011 Blockbusters Including X-Men: First Class And Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

If you’re a fan of the Blu-Ray format, then you’re going to love this. And if you’re not, I thoroughly recommend converting now. It seems that Play.com are in the business of brightening up our Friday afternoon! They currently have a sale on a number of last year’s biggest blockbusters on Blu-Ray, headed up by [...]

The Muppets UK Press Conference Live Blog

Last night was the premiere, then today Ben interviewed Miss Piggy and this afternoon, it’s all about The Muppets Press Conference! Ben will be there to live blog the entire thing so sit back and enjoy the awesomeness! The Muppets is released Friday 10th February and you’re going to love it! Please feel free to [...]

Join us for #DriveTime Tweet-Along on Monday 30th January

Ryan Gosling’s movie, Drive is released in the UK on Monday 30th January and to celebrate, we’re going to be joining in with an awesome evening which has the lovely hash tag #DriveTime. The idea is that everyone buys a copy of the movie and from 8pm on the dot on Monday evening, we’ll all [...]

George Clooney & Alexander Payne - The Descendants

Exclusive Extended Featurette: George Clooney & Director Alexander Payne Talk The Descendants

We’ve been given this absolutely fantastic extended featurette which is simply George Clooney and Director Alexander Payne talking about The Descendants but it’s so much more than that as they touch on their own experiences on movies and some of their favourite actors and experiences in their own careers. The featurettes 12 minute featurette focuses [...]

Lily Collins as Snow White in Mirror Mirror

New International Trailer for Mirror Mirror

Here’s a rather enchanting new trailer for Relativity Media’s new version of the Snow White story in their adaptation Mirror Mirror. A couple of days ago, we got to see a great behind the scenes featurette and today we’ve been given a nice new shiny trailer. As I said in the previous post, this version [...]

The Artist Blooper Reel is Silently Brilliant

The Artist is current scouring the globe for nominations and eventual wins in every category going but as this awesome blooper reel for the movie shows, not quite everything went to plan. That said, it is simply brilliant watching the cast have as much fun with the movie as you’d see from any normal blooper [...]

Five Brilliant Official Hi-Res Stills From The Avengers

The marketing campaign is well and truly underway for Joss Whedon’s upcoming The Avengers, which brings together all of the awesome characters we’ve loved watching over the past few years in their separate movies for one epic superhero blockbuster. Just last night, we put up some great images and specs of Tony Stark’s $9m. car [...]

New Trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

Here’s what is most probably the final trailer for Dwayne Johnson’s new movie, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. The trailer is introduced by Johnson and his co-star Josh Hutcherson who refuses to ‘pop his pecks’ like thje massive man sat next to him! Michael Caine, Luis Guzma and Vanessa Hudgens complete the main cast of [...]

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah Reportedly Has A Villain Role And Is Eyeing Autumn 2013 Release

News of Darren Aronofsky’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning film, Black Swan, first surfaced back in June last year, when it surfaced that he was looking to make a big-budget epic film based on the story of Noah’s ark, entitled, Noah. Christian Bale was first in talks for the titular role, but his involvement in the [...]

Kermit and Miss Piggy at the UK Premiere of The Muppets

The Muppets UK Premiere Report and Interviews

Today is about one thing and one thing only, The Muppets! Ben is off to interview Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy and I’ve never seen the man so exited! We’re also off to the UK press conference for the movie and we’ll be live blogging the whole thing so keep your eyes peeled for [...]

Talaash Trailer! Amir, Kareena, Rani & Mustachioed Underwater Swimming!

The 2nd of this week’s awesome Bollywood trailers is Reema Kagti’s Talaash starring performing heavyweights Amir Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee. Starting off with a sniper taking aim with an amusement park on the background, the credits start rolling with the collaboration of Excel Entertainment and Amir Khan Productions, two names that pretty much [...]

John Hurt to Recieve BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema

BAFTA have just sent over a press release alerting us to the fact that the legendary veteran actor, John Hurt is to be he recipient of the 2012 BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Hurt has been acting since 1962 when he appeared in TV series Z Cars. More recently he has appeared [...]

Glee’s Ryan Murphy To Write Sci-Fi/Horror For Sony

Ryan Murphy – the man behind TV’s Glee and American Horror Story – is returning to horror with plans to pen a new sci-fi project that is being set up at Sony Pictures, to be co-written by Brian Miller. For those of you who sat through 2010′s Eat, Pray, Love, you know just how horrifying [...]

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Awesome Images And Specs Of Tony Stark’s $9m. Car From The Avengers

Sundance Film Festival is well underway out in Park City, Utah, and a fantastic new bit of marketing has surfaced in promotion of Joss Whedon’s highly anticipated upcoming film, The Avengers, which is due out in April this year. Collider have a brilliant selection of images and the full specs for Tony Stark’s car from [...]

New Images from The Hunger Games Shows Over-Tanned Stanley Tucci & Jennifer Lawrence in Leather!

Here’s a lovely new image from The Hunger Games which as I mentioned in the title, shows Stanley Tucci looking like he’s been in a tanning salon a little too long! He’s joined with Jennifer Lawrence who plays the main character Katniss in the movie which is set for release 23rd March. From memory, The [...]

Monty Python Members Set To Reunite For Sci-Fi Comedy Absolutely Anything

The beloved British comedy troupe Monty Python, well-known for their films and sketch shows from the late ’60s through to the early ’80s, are set to return once more to the big screen together for a new sci-fi farce, Absolutely Anything. The film will be a mixture of CGI and live-action, Variety report, with Terry [...]

Matthew Broderick Reprises his Role as Ferris Bueller in Super Bowl Commercial Teaser Trailer

This has made my evening complete! It’s only 10 seconds long but this teaser trailer has hit YouTube for an as yet unnamed commercial that is going to play over the Super Bowl on February 5th. It simply has Matthew Broderick looking to camera as he opens his curtains in a hotel room saying “How [...]

Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener Join Frank or Francis

Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) and Catherine Keener (Where the Wild Things Are) have signed on to star in Frank or Francis. Winslet and Keener will star opposite Steve Carell (Dan in Real Life), Jack Black (Be Kind Rewind), Nicolas Cage (Kick-Ass) and Kevin Kline (French Kiss) what’s being described as a “very meta musical comedy”. Frank [...]

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Rolling Thunder Blu-ray Review

[The following review features a number of spoilers] Rolling Thunder is the story of Major Charles Ranes (William Devane), a Vietnam vet who returns from years of imprisonment and torture in a Vietcong POW camp to his home in Texas. He and his prison mate Johnny (Tommy Lee Jones) are greeted at the airport with a heroes [...]

Sundance 2012: Bachelorette Review

7 years ago Tina Fey introduced us to a group of irredeemable high school girls known as the Plastics in her film Mean Girls. As crude, and over exaggerated as these characters were, there was just enough truth in them to make them appear familiar. Let’s be real, we’ve all known at least one or [...]

Big Barn Farm DVD Reviews

The Foundation are behind some of the most popular television shows for children for the past few years, including Mister Maker, Scorpion Island, Finger Tips, Dani’s House and Waybuloo. But one of their shows that is still airing on CBeebies since it’s debut in 2008 is Big Barn Farm, a live action television show that [...]

Beyond Time – DVD Review

William Turnbull is a painter and sculptor, now approaching his 90th birthday, whose life and work is evaluated in this documentary by his son, Alex. Narration by Jude Law. ***** Documentaries have always had an important place in the world of film and although there are plenty of high quality examples of the genre going [...]

The Grey Review

Liam Neeson has carved a rather comfortable nook for himself of late, as Hollywood’s brooding badass from across the shore. But there’s more behind that uncompromising gravelly voice and quietly threatening steely glare, as Joe Carnahan (Narc) proves in his adaptation of Ian MacKenzie Jeffers’ short ‘Ghost Walker‘, taking Neeson’s safe pair of Irish hands [...]

Shark Night 3D Blu-ray Review

Shark Night 3D arrives almost a year after Piranha 3D reigned supreme on DVD/Blu-ray. Unfortunately, where Piranha 3D relished in its ridiculousness, Shark Night 3D tries to escape that by “elevating” itself to something more. Where it had the potential to be another gory-filled B-movie homage (the fact it was originally called Untitled Shark Thriller [...]

The Woman In Black Review

A truly horrific horror film is something of a rarity. The Saw films are gruesome, the Paranormal Activity movies are jumpy and Sam Raimi’s output is schlocky fun, but if you know what to expect from them – or their lower budget clones – it’s easy to brace yourself, and diffuse their effect. More to [...]

The Descendants Review

Director Alexander Payne returns to the big screen (after an almost eight-year absence) with a somewhat unexpectedly gentle comedy-drama which is free from the biting satire and humorous cynicism which characterised his earlier work, and offers his most heart-felt feature to date. George Clooney is Matt King, a work-obsessed lawyer from a prominent and successful [...]

The Burma Conspiracy – DVD Review

Following the death of his hugely wealthy father, Largo Winch returns from being “off the radar”, to take over his father’s business and then sell it in order to invest in a charitable foundation. But someone is not happy about this plan and Winch finds himself accused of crimes against humanity relating to the extermination [...]

Like Crazy Review

The surprise winner of last year’s Sundance Film Festival was Like Crazy: unconventional filmmaker Drake Doremus’ take on the highs and lows of love. Unlike other romantic dramas, this one is able to subvert the clichéd trends and offer a simple yet fruitful romance story that relishes in its low-key charm. Anna (Felicity Jones), a [...]

Sundance 2012: Where Do We Go Now? Review

As I lined up for the press screening of Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? I had absolutely no idea what to expect. The official Sundance programming guide described it as an emotionally charged film about religious differences in a small town in Lebanon and, oh yeah, did mention it’s also a musical? Never [...]

Sundance 2012: Celeste and Jesse Forever World Premiere and Review

On the surface Celeste and Jesse seem like the perfect couple. Their obnoxiously profuse amount of inside jokes, the way they hang all over each other, and the hours upon hours of time they spend together, give the impression that they are a match made in heaven. Except Celeste and Jesse are not really together, [...]

Chronicle Review

These days, it seems the only cinematic way to suitably recreate the belief that unfolding events are ‘real’ and instil a climate of fear is a cross between pseudo-documentary shooting and mimicking the YouTube generation of ‘caught-on-camera’ moments, the likes of which Paranormal Activity to Blair Witch have successfully sold. Debut feature writer-director Josh Trank [...]

W.E. Review

Madonna’s second foray into film directing naturally raises more scrutiny than is focused on her new film itself, which is a pity because W.E. produces some memorable moments among its flawed narrative. In fact, had you not known it was the star in the writer-director’s seat, this love story still makes for a haunting picture [...]

Sundance 2012: Wish You Were Here Review

Many things have changed in the 5 years since I last visited the Sundance Film Festival in Park City UT. The crowd has changed, the hot button issues are different, and there seems to be less of an emphasis on what awesome celebrity will be present during the 10 day event. However the one thing [...]

The Sitter Review

Jonah Hill may appear to have grown up in Moneyball, and got some intellectual credibility in an adult environment, but he reverts back to the same self-depreciating man-boy role we all know him for in David Gordon Green’s new mainstream comedy, The Sitter. It’s really a half-hearted, mischievous Noughties twist on zany 1980s comedy adventure, [...]

X: Night of Vengeance Review

Those making films on the subject of female exploitation, especially prostitution, need to be fully alert of not falling into the trap of aligning themselves with the very individuals that fuel a misogynistic interest. Sadly, even with the dangerous locations of Sydney’s very own Kings Cross red-light district on show for the international audience to [...]

J. Edgar Review

The ever-prolific Clint Eastwood (this is his eleventh directorial feature since 2000) returns with the absorbing, if flawed, (mildly) revisionist take on the personal life of an equally revered and feared historical US figure. Tracing J. Edgar Hoover’s meteoric rise through the Justice Department and the Bureau of Investigation, to his leading role in establishing [...]

Coriolanus Review

Another Shakespearian text receives the contemporary treatment (albeit via one of his lesser-known plays) with Bard veteran Ralph Fiennes making his directorial debut alongside ably filling the central role of proud and defiant general, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. The ruler of Rome (portrayed here as a faceless English city), Coriolanus is a fierce, unrepentant soldier whose [...]

The Darkest Hour Review

Remember the times critics have said that they like it when films let the audience find the horror in their own imagination? To keep that latex monstrosity of a monster in the shadows lest we see it’s horribly unhorrifying latex moulded face? To keep that particularly traumatic scene off-screen so that we can think ourselves [...]