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I first saw Michael Sheen on screen playing Tony Blair in the first of Peter Morgan’s Blairology, The Deal, opposite David Morrisey’s morose Gordon Brown and loved the sparky mouse-like chirp he used to embody the then Prime Minister of Britain, and I was hooked. After making The Deal and stopping on the way to [...]
We reported here that “Lost” director Jack Bender was to direct the new Jack Ryan reboot, with Chris Pine (Star Trek) to take over from previous actors Ben Affleck, Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin. Now, we have news that the production has nabbed itself a writer, in the shape of Anthony Peckham. Peckham is building [...]
Joe Dante’s latest film is another eerie peek into middle America, with his own particular brand of family centred horror coming to the big screen in three dimensions. The Hole In 3D sees the director returning to the likes of Gremlins and The Howling and Dante touches on both of these films as he talks [...]
Rodrigo Cortes has put Ryan Reynolds in a box and come up with Buried, which has been playing well on the festival circuit and now comes to UK cinemas on the 29th of September. HeyUGuys are giving you the chance to win one of three Buried goodie bags complete with a torch, bag, Zippo lighter [...]
On paper, Marvel’s “wedding cake” plan seems like a masterstroke. You own a film studio recently bought out by the giant Disney, with access to about 5000 superheroes. You take the most popular heroes (the ones not owned by Sony or Fox, naturally), give them their own franchises and gradually build up the layers to [...]
Kyle Newman’s epic struggle to bring his Star Wars road trip movie to eager audiences is well documented and we’re lucky enough to be getting the Blu-ray and DVD on the 4th of October. Craig saw the film at Frightfest, you can read his thoughts here, and we hope to be able to bring you [...]
Mark Schilling at Variety is reporting the news that following Zebraman 2 (the trailer of which can be found here) and 13 Assassins (a remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 film of the same name) Takashi Miike’s is working on another remake, this time of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 film, Harakiri (AKA Seppuku). Kobayashi’s film tells the [...]
Joe Dante has oozed quality family/horror productions for 30 years with the likes of Gremlins, The Explorers, Inner Space, Piranha, The Burbs, Small soldiers and the excellent TV series Eerie Indiana on his wonderful CV. After a seven year gap since his last film (The horrible Looney Tunes: Back in Action) has Dante returned to [...]
Bong Joon-ho’s 2009 film Mother has rightly been lauded across the globe, and the filmmaker who came to the attention of many people with his 2006 monster movie The Host has created another stirring piece of cinema with one of the finest central performances for many years. The direction is deceptively simple, the powerful presence [...]
Last month we posted the theatrical poster for a new low-budget sci-fi film Jim. Apple, via FirstShowing, now have the first official trailer for the ultra secretive film. Directed by Jeremy Morris-Burke, Jim stars a host of unknown, or up-and-coming talent, including Dan Illian, Vanessa Burke, Abigail Savage, Michael Strelow, Michelle Ries, Atticus Cain, Carolyn Morrison and [...]
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have a brand new movie coming to DVD 27th September called Deadly Impact. It stars Joe Pantoliano, Sean Patrick Flanery, Carmen Serano and is directed by Robert Kurtzman. Synopsis: With a star-studded cast lead by Joe Pantoliano (the Matrix, Bad Boys 2) with Sean Patrick Flanery (Boondock Saints series, Saw [...]
Ben Affleck is “shocked and excited” that his latest movie has gone straight to the top of the US box office this weekend. The Town, which both stars and is directed by the 38-year-old, took $24 million in its first three days beating off stiff competition from romantic comedy Easy A and horror film, Devil. [...]
“Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” “Because it’s There”. For those that don’t know their history, George Mallory was a British mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest in the early 1920s and who was last seen just a few hundred metres from the summit. This was 30 [...]
Disney’s much anticipated relaunch of the Tron franchise appears not to have gone unnoticed over at Universal. According to What’s Playing the studio has, for the last four years no less, been racking its brains for a way to relaunch Timecop as a summer tentpole blockbuster – in 3D no doubt. The original, which starred [...]
The first Hatchet film was Adam Green’s entry into the slasher sub-genre and although quite enjoyable it was a little lacking. With Hatchet II Green has taken the best parts of the first film and ratcheted them up resulting in an incredibly enjoyable and pretty intense slasher film. I saw the premiere of the film [...]
David Fincher’s The Social Network has been gradually building positive buzz over the past few weeks and on the 1st of October the film reaches US theaters (UK residents will unfortunately have to wait until October 16th). Ahead of the film’s release the score will be available to buy from the 28th of September. Available [...]
MTV caught up with Jeremy Renner during the junket for his latest movie The Town, taking the opportunity to quiz him on all things Avengers. Asked whether the actor, who was confirmed in the Hawkeye role back in July, would be donning the characters trademark purple costume, Renner declared: “I think it’s going to be [...]
The west coast cultural melting-pot that is Los Angeles goes by the nickname “the city of angels”, although throughout many of its representations on the big screen, it appears to be somewhat lacking a population which could be described as heavenly. Whether it be the backdrop for a futuristic tale of a world-wearily cop hunting [...]
