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Share/Bookmark Recently 2009 Oscars hosting favourite Hugh Jackman chose to suit up once again for Wolverine and ruled himself out of returning to host Hollywood’s biggest night, and while this year’s hosting duo of Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin did a good job they are not hosting next year’s event. It’s been announced today that [...]
Share/BookmarkIn around twenty four hours the Queen will dance gaily up the red carpet to attend the Royal Film Performance and World Premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader. If the Narnians go as far as their Potter brethren did a few weeks ago then Leicester Square will be filled with [...]
Share/BookmarkThis past weekend London’s Olympia 2 played host to The Entertainment Media Show and Collectormania, two days of excessive geekery and sci-fi celebrity spotting along with the Sky Movies Ultimate Film Quiz, of which HeyUGuys were a part. Dave Sztypuljak, Em Breen and I entered the arena with our heads buzzing with cinematic knowledge, eager [...]
Share/BookmarkWe all knew that with the success of Splinter Cell: Conviction, we should be expecting another Sam Fisher stealth-tastic adventure. But Ubisoft Toronto have revealed that production is already underway. Managing Director Jade Raymond revealed the news in a promotional video for the studio’s upcoming development slate. “We’re working on Splinter Cell 6, the next [...]
Share/BookmarkIrvin Kershner, the director behind Star Wars sequel and fan favourite, The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away aged 87. Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Kershner’s background was a mixture of music and art before beginning a film career at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, teaching photography and taking cinema courses. [...]
Share/BookmarkWith the release of the Playstation Eye and the Xbox 360′s Kinect, the motion controller war has well and truly erupted. And now a software engineer for Sony Computer Entertainment has decided to stoke the fire with an outrageously opinionated stick. Anton Mikhailov has claimed that Microsoft’s fledgling full-body controller won’t be able to offer [...]
Share/BookmarkThis is a Blu-ray review of Sex And the City 2 so I do not need to go over aspects of this film already discussed on this site, Em’s caustic yet considered review is available here and says everything which needs to be said about this howler. For this I am grateful, because having to [...]
Share/BookmarkNBC’s consistently popular spy series Chuck may live under the network’s axe at all times, but its quirky mix of James Bond and The Big Bang Theory has endured through three seasons of double and triple crossing, secrets and seductions and now enters its fourth season still feeling fresh and, most importantly, funny. Zachary Levi’s [...]
Share/BookmarkSad news comes to us this morning that comedy legend Leslie Nielsen has passed away from complications from pneumonia, that arose while he was fighting a staph affection. He was 84 years old. Nielsen will likely be best remembered for his appearances in spoof TV and films, including Airplane!, Police Squad and The Naked Gun series. [...]
Share/BookmarkMartin Scorsese has been sharing his thoughts about 3D and how it may factor into the future of the big screen experience. Chatting to Mark Kermode in The Observer last week, the Goodfellas auteur sees the tool as potentially revolutionising what we see. “Every shot is rethinking cinema, rethinking narrative – how to tell a [...]
Share/BookmarkNew poster time for Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock. It’s not a million miles away from the previous poster, adding in Sam Riley’s co-stars Helen Mirren and Andrea Riseborough. Andy Serkis and John Hurt also star in the film which is due out in the UK on the 4th of February. If [...]
Share/BookmarkA few days ago, we put up the press release for the announcement that Disney are going to be showing every single one of their animated feature films at the BFI during the course of 2011. This is to celebrate the fact that their new movie, Tangled is their 50th feature release. To coincide with [...]
Share/BookmarkIt’s not a moody shot of Kristen Stewart, nor is it a mournful and dour picture of Robert Pattinson, and it does not feature anyone topless, but it is the first promotional image from Twilight: Breaking Dawn. Post Coital or Plucked Chicken, I’ll leave you to decide, but it’s not exactly subtle is it? And [...]
Share/BookmarkThe Asylum generally tackle recent releases with their line in mockbusters but here they have decided to adapt classic literature with a modernised take on Moby Dick. Although the 2010 in the title might suggest a reference to the update to present day The Asylum have freely admitted that this actually has more to do [...]
Share/BookmarkA video from the set of Pirates of the Caribbean has found it’s way online via MovieWeb. This video shows Johnny Depp aka Captain Jack Sparrow in action with some other cast members. This footage comes just a couple of days after producer Jerry Bruckheimer tweeted that the movie had wrapped filming. The fourth installment [...]
Share/BookmarkWith the feral, naked pensioner glimpsed in Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale undertaking bad santa duties this year, it looks as though Billy Bob Thornton’s original seasonal grouch might soon return to show those quirky Finnish how it’s done miserably. While discussing the upcoming Faster, and his plans to direct Jayne Mansfield’s Car – a [...]
Share/BookmarkThe Daily Mail have posted a new still from My Week With Marilyn, showing Michelle Williams as the iconic actress, singer and model, Marilyn Monroe. Directed by Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn features a supporting cast including Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Emma Watson, Dougray Scott, Dominic Cooper, Julia Ormond, Judi Dench and Zoë Wanamaker. [...]
Share/BookmarkI am a little unsure what to make of or say about these. Bleeding Cool have scooped some on-location snaps of various entrances to and sections of Mega City One, the centre of the action for the upcoming big screen adaptation of Judge Dredd, starring Karl Urban. The problem is, it looks a bit, well, [...]
Share/BookmarkThere is something quietly unsettling about Nicolas Cage in these new images taken from the set of Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance. Shooting imaginary bullets from his index finger, the recent compilation of the actor’s many on-screen wiggins’ looks set to grow when this critic-defying sequel rolls into cinemas next year. Currently filming in [...]
Share/BookmarkAfter the debacle of the first poster for Tom Hooper’s wonderful film, the marketing for The King’s Speech is looking better than ever with this new Spanish poster. Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter take the lead and dance us through the story of the reluctant King George VI as he takes to the throne [...]
