News
‘Stay Classy’ – Awesome New Teaser Trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Ron Burgundy is back this year, and he’s going to be unstoppable. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is already slated for release just in time for Christmas, and is guaranteed to be one of the funniest movies of the year. The first teaser trailer hit almost a year ago to the day, and with filming [...]
Cannes 2013 – The Festival and Gatsby le magnifique
“He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way”. So says Nick Carraway of the titular Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann’s dazzling if flimsy adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The quote also aptly applies [...]
Iron Man 3 Soars Past $1bn. at the Global Box Office
After topping box offices around the world, and taking north of $175m. in its opening US weekend, it very quickly became a question of not if, but when would Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 reach the $1bn. mark? We’ve been expecting Iron Man 3 to become the latest member of that elusive club for some [...]
First Poster for Drinking Buddies with Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson & Anna Kendrick
Of the many films that debuted at SXSW this year, Drinking Buddies is the one I think I wish I could have seen most. The leading cast is absolutely stellar, and the early reviews from the festival proved its status as a must-see movie of the year. The film was quickly acquired by Magnolia, and [...]
First Teaser Trailer for Last Vegas with Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman & Michael Douglas
Led by four of the biggest names in the industry, Last Vegas is being pitched as The Hangover of Hollywood heavyweights, and what better time to launch the first teaser trailer than on the cusp of The Hangover Part III’s release? All four of Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline are [...]
Anna Kendrick, Josh Gad & Mandy Pantinkin join Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here
Zach Braff’s Wish I Was Here has fast become one of the many projects currently in development that I am most looking forward to. Braff launched the film on Kickstarter late last month, and received pledges beyond the $2m. goal within a matter of days. With production expected to begin in Los Angeles towards the [...]
New Red-Band Trailer for The Hangover Part III
We’ve got less than a week to go before the Wolfpack returns to our screens for one final outing in The Hangover Part III, and I can’t wait for next Thursday to come around. This is one I’ve been looking forward to for a while now, largely because Todd Phillips and co. have promised that [...]
Emily Blunt Joins Disney’s Musical Into the Woods
Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) is in talks to star in Disney’s musical Into the Woods, Variety has learned. Blunt will appear opposite Johnny Depp (Alice in Wonderland), Meryl Streep (It’s Complicated), Chris Pine (Star Trek), Christine Baranski (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), James Cordon (The History Boys), and Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead) in the [...]
Reviews
Cannes 2013: La Danza de la Realidad Review
Jodorowsky returns with his first feature film in over twenty years – his last being the rather disappointing and atypical The Rainbow Thief – the bewitching La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance of Reality). An adaptation of his autobiographical book of the same name La Danza de la Realidad is obviously a deeply personal [...]
Cannes 2013: Jeune & Jolie Review
François Ozon, the former enfant terrible of French Cinema, returns after his career best In the House with a rather sedate, even if it is occasionally mildly provocative, character study into the sexual awakening of a seventeen year-old girl. Isabelle, the girl in question, is played by Marine Vacth, an actress for who this will [...]
Cannes 2013: Heli Review
A depressing insight into a poor family in Mexico makes for uneasy if occasionally powerful viewing in Heli, Amat Escalante’s third feature following Sangre in 2005 and Los bastardos in 2008. Heli is named after its central character, a poor young man who works at a local Japanese Automobile factory and lives with his partner, [...]
Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring Review
Based on real events and inspired by an article in Vanity Fair, Sofia Coppola’s latest directorial turn concerns itself with those that emulate the kind of characters she has previously devoted whole films to; Dorff’s Johnny Marco in Somewhere, Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette and to a lesser extent Bill Murray’s Bob Harris in Lost [...]
The Great Gatsby Review
If possible, it’s important to distance yourself from the original F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of which this Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby is based upon, as although naturally sharing the same narrative as the 1925 masterpiece, comparisons are somewhat futile, as this is so much more a lavish, typically grandiose Luhrmann production, than [...]
The Liability Review
It seems cameraman-cum-director Craig Viveiros fancies himself as a bit of a ‘British Tarantino’ with his second feature, The Liability. He even employs the services of one of Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs’ actors, Tim Roth, to evoke that clever magic. Indeed, at the heart of this road movie is a more superior, darkly comedic [...]
Fast & Furious 6 Review
Like the characters in the franchise, director Justin Lin reassembles his trustworthy team of writers Chris Morgan and Gary Scott Thompson to pen another episode of the adrenaline-pumping, big-action smashing and testosterone-dripping Fast & Furious mayhem that throws reality and caution to the wind in Version 6. Rio’s favelas played host last time in 2011 [...]
Sundance London 2013 – The Kings of Summer Review
Joe Toy (Nick Robinson) is fed up with his life at home. His older sister is moving away and he can’t bear the thought of spending the whole summer at home alone with his father (Nick Offerman), who we first meet mercilessly chastising Joe for masturbating in the shower. Ever since his mother died his [...]
Features
Film Geeks at the Theatre: The Hot House by Harold Pinter
Earlier this week we launched our Film Geeks at the Theatre strand on the site. As the title suggests, it’s a(n irregular) series of articles that look at theatre through the eyes of those of us who only, really know movies. It seems only appropriate to follow this up with a review of The Hot [...]
Rear View Mirror: A Journey Through The Fast and the Furious Series So Far…
Truth be told, up until very recently, not only had I not seen a single The Fast and the Furious movie, I wasn’t really in any great rush to do so either. I’d heard from various sources that the first outing was an over the top piece of guilty fun, but after that they all [...]
10 Superheroes Who Could Join the Team in The Avengers 2
The roster of The Avengers is already pretty crowded (after all, they DO have a Hulk…), but it would be a massive shame if Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios didn’t take the opportunity to introduce some new members to the team of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the sequel which is currently set for release on [...]
Alfa Romeo – Fast and Furious 6 Stunt Day
This time last week, rather than being sat in front of our usual office computer, we were invited by Universal Pictures and Alfa Romeo to a rather different office. That office was Bedford Aerodrome in Bedfordshire and the aim of the day was to learn how to drive a car like we’ve never driven one [...]
Six of the Best: The Directors – Wes Anderson
Currently filming his latest comedy drama The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is set to star an ensemble cast including Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, and Saoirse Ronan, Wes Anderson has been producing quirky dramas for almost twenty years at this point in time. Director, screenwriter, actor, and producer of features, short films and commercials, Anderson’s work [...]
Interviews
The HeyUGuys Interview: Composer Lucas Vidal Talks Fast and Furious 6
The last time we spoke to Spanish Composer Lucas Vidal he’d just finished working on the Henry Cavill / Bruce Willis movie The Cold Light of Day and John Cusack’s Edgar Allen Poe film The Raven but now the up and coming composer has been given the biggest film of his career in the form [...]
Interviews from the Arrested Development Season 4 Netflix Premiere
This evening London’s Leicester Square played host to the premiere of a TV show that has been off-air for 7 years but one that we and many others have wanted to see return. That show is of course Arrested Development. Many of the shows favourites including Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor and [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Jeff Nichols talks Mud
Coming to our attentions with the absorbing psychological drama Take Shelter, director Jeff Nichols now returns with his latest picture, this time depicting first love and relationships through the eyes of a teenage boy. In what is a truly inspiring piece of cinema, we had the good fortune of sitting down with Jeff to discuss his latest [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Tobias Lindholm discusses A Hijacking
In what is undoubtedly one of our favourite films this year so far, A Hijacking marks yet another wonderful film to come out of Denmark, and we had the pleasure of speaking to the director Tobias Lindholm ahead of the film’s release. Lindholm, who also wrote The Hunt, last year – is the second person [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Stefan Ruzowitzky talks Deadfall
Having picked up the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008 with The Counterfeiters, Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky now returns with his first ever Hollywood production, assembling an all-star cast for his crime thriller Deadfall. Starring the likes of Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde, Ruzowitzky discusses his pride at directing such talented performers, [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Fred Schepisi talks The Eye of the Storm
While The Eye of the Storm is currently playing in cinemas across Britain, we were fortunate enough to speak to the renowned Australian filmmaker behind the adaptation of Frank White’s eponymous Nobel prize winning novel – catching up with Fred Schepisi, to discuss the pressure of taking on such a project, working with Geoffrey Rush, [...]
