The Orphanage Reopens with a New Director

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It’s a bad news day for those who despise English language remakes of recent foreign films. With the new poster for the Matt Reeves directed remake of Let the Right One In hitting the web today Variety are reporting an update for New Line’s remake of the haunting 2007 film El Orfanato, released abroad as [...]

New Poster for Let Me In

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I watched the Swedish vampire movie, ‘Let the Right One In’ over the weekend and I very much enjoyed it but I didn’t think it quite lived up to the hype in which it has received over the past 6 months. That said, the direction was brilliantly different and it was just a beautiful film. [...]

Avatar Breaks a Billion – So What Does This Mean?

It’s official – the colour of money is blue, and it is being reported that James Cameron’s critically lauded Avatar has made over a billion dollars worldwide as of its third week of release and with $670 million coming from the international market the success of Avatar is truly a worldwide phenomenon. Despite healthy competition [...]

The Second Trailer for How to Train Your Dragon is Released

How to Train Your Dragon

It leaked over the Christmas holidays and I chose not to post it but now, for your viewing please, I give you the HD version of How to Train Your Dragon. This 2nd trailer (1st here) is the latest animation to be brought to us by Dreamworks Animation SKG. Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, [...]

First Official Poster for the Live Action Tekken Movie

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The Tekken movie has been completed for a little while now and lack of activity, including finding a distributor in the USA, has made many people think that this will be just another terrible video game adaptation. Something has finally emerged from the production in the form of its first official poster. The film follows [...]

Bazmann’s Top Ten Movies of 2009

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I wasn’t going to post a top ten. Everyone does it, and i didn’t necessarily feel there’d be a whole lot of interest in mine. Also, as far as movie years go, it’s been a pretty poor one, so i struggled to name ten movies that i really liked enough to put on a list. [...]

Review: Ninja Assassin

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When I saw this trailer for Ninja Assassin I was expectingly curious, then I saw the test footage (see below) with the actor Rain going through the chorography of fighting scenes which was incredible and was even more excited by the prospect of a Ninja film from the makers of the Matrix, so it has [...]

US Trailer for Jet Li’s Epic – The Warlords

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Two years after Peter Chan’s award-winning Chinese/Hong Kong epic The Warlords, starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, and Takeshi Kaneshiro, was released in Asia a new trailer has appeared in anticipation of the film’s 2010 US release. Anybody who enjoys Chinese war epics is sure to like this film, which contains some of the most magnificently [...]

US Trailer for District 13: Ultimatum

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A flurry of trailers have recently appeared online including several official US trailers for foreign films which have previously been released elsewhere, and now 2009 French action film District 13: Ultimatum has followed suit. A sequel to 2004′s highly successful District 13, French filmmaking legend Luc Besson returns as writer/producer, as do the first film’s [...]

Two New Teasers for John Travolta’s From Paris With Love

From Paris With Love

French movie website, EuropaCorp have released two new teaser trailers for Pierre Morel’s upcoming action film From Paris with Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There are a number of films being released in 2010 which I am very much looking forward to, and this is definitely one of them. Although I am [...]

New Edge of Darkness TV Spot

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Adapted from the 1985 BBC TV series of the same name, Edge of Darkness is easily one of my most anticipated films of 2010 and a new TV spot for it has just been released. Even though I think Mel Gibson is an amazingly talented director, I am also a fan of his work as [...]

A – Z Movie Reviews – E’s

Eastern Promises

To continue my review of my epic journey to watch all my films from A-Z, this is the Fifth part. For those that don’t know I am watching all 700+ Dvd/Bluray films from A-Z which has so far taken me 2.5 years to get to the end of H’s! I thought I should retrospectively review [...]

Toy Story 3: Mr. Pricklepants Take the Stage

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Not content with entering millions of British homes in his role in today’s highly anticipated episode of Doctor Who, Timothy Dalton is bringing his formidable Welsh tinged brogue to Toy Story 3, and in the new clip from the Disney channel we get our first look at his character, Mr Pricklepants. This toy hedgehog with [...]

The Films of the Decade Results: Voted by YOU

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So, it’s been a busy month with votes coming in by the thousand but now that New Years Day has arrived we’ve been able to collate all your votes to give you the definitive list of movies that you believe defined the decade. I’ll be looking at the top 10 in more depth below but [...]

Red Band Trailer: Youth in Revolt

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It’s a whole new year so why not celebrate with a brand new red brand trailer for one of the movies we’re looking forward to seeing. Michael Cera’s new movie, Youth in Revolt is released 5th February and this new red band trailer gives us a better look at Cera doing what he does best…. [...]