Share/Bookmark The full list of nominations for the 38th Annie Awards were announced today with Dreamworks’s How to Train your Dragon gathering up the majority of nominations including Best Feature, Animation, Character Design and Voice Work for Gerard Butler and Jay Baruchel, as well as Directing nominations for Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. Pixar’s Up [...]
DreamWorks’ Dragon and Pixar’s Toy Story Lead 2010 Annie Awards Nominations.
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Assassin’s Creed 3 Details Leaked
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Share/BookmarkFans of the Assassin’s Creed franchise will appreciate the importance of stealth and subtlety. It’s just a shame the same can’t be said for the good folks over at Ubisoft after a user survey was leaked online that suggests what fans can expect from Assassin’s Creed 3. The rumour mill has been suggesting that the [...]
The King’s Speech and Monsters Triumph at The 2010 BIFAs
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Share/BookmarkTom Hooper’s The King’s Speech took the lion’s share of the awards on offer last night at the 13th British Independent Film Awards, winning the Best British Independent Film, Best Actor for Colin Firth and Best Supporting Actor and Actress for Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Cater, who also took home the Richard Harris award [...]
First Look as Emma Stone Goes Blonde for Spider-Man
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Share/BookmarkHere’s a look at a blonde Emma Stone who has dyed her hair for the role of Gwen Stacy in the Spider-Man reboot, due out in 2012. It’s interesting to note that this is the reverse of what was required of the leading actress in the recent trilogy, where natural blonde Kirsten Dunst was required [...]
Trailer for Arthur Christmas Delivers
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Share/BookmarkSony have just sent us the trailer for their forthcoming festive film Arthur Christmas, which is an Aardman Animation featuring the voice talents of James McAvoy, Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Hugh Laurie and Ashley Jensen. Here’s the synopsis, Arthur Christmas highlights the technological advances of operations at the North Pole, revealing how Santa [...]
Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
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Share/Bookmark“Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!” is one of those iconic movie quotes which has fully earned its place in pop culture history over the last 25 years. Frequently voted high in the ranks as one of the greatest comedies ever made, it was released in 1984 and spawned a sequel five years later in ’89 [...]
Masters of Cinema Book Review
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Share/BookmarkCahiers du cinema should need no introduction and this new series of books come to us under their banner from Phaidon Press; ten books, ten directors named Masters of cinema and a more perfect Christmas present for the cinephile in your life I could not imagine. I’m familiar with each of the ten directors here [...]
Tomb Raider Reboot Announced
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Share/BookmarkWhile we still have a lot of love for Lara Croft, we can’t help but feel her current-gen outings haven’t quite lived up to the legacy she set during the 32-bit era. And after countless ‘new directions’ and the half-decent top-down auctioneer Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, it seems Square Enix and Crystal [...]
New International Black Swan Poster Cracks Me Up
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Share/BookmarkAnother poster for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan has been released, and it continues the impressive marketing for this psychological thriller. Glamour Magazine had the exclusive on this one and if you’ve not seen the range of intriguing trailers and posters then click here. Having Natalie Portman and Vincent Cassel is enough to get me interested [...]
Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 Blu-ray Review
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Share/BookmarkDisney’s Fantasia is a classic film and an oddity in popular cinema. A comeback vehicle for Disney’s most famous creation, the image of Mickey clad in the robes of a sorcerer whizzing through a castle followed by a hurricane of brooms is so well known now that a single frame from the film will cause [...]
Modern Spin on Classic Horror Fable as Frankenstein is Revived
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Share/BookmarkSome monsters never die! Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures Entertainment is involved in bringing a new version of the Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the big screen. Little is known yet, except the film will be a contemporary version of the classic tale and a scriptwriter by the name of Craig Fernandez, who wrote 2003’s [...]
Tron: Legacy Premiere Aftershow Report
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Share/BookmarkTonight was always going to end up in a London hotspot, decked out in blue neon with Felix B, one of the duo who form Basement Jaxx pounding our ears at the Tate Modern which played host for the after-show party. The arrival of Disney’s Tron: Legacy was always going to turn heads, its design [...]
Tron: Legacy Cameo to Appear as a Main Character in Future Sequel?
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Never Stop Upon the Way: A Look Back At “The Company Of Wolves” – Part One
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Share/BookmarkThe horror movie, in all its multitude of cinematic guises, has offered up many a piece of friendly advice throughout the years. Whether it’s a deranged old man warning a bunch of witless teenagers to skip this year’s camping vacation, an urban legend warning the curious amongst us all to avoid speaking a certain name [...]
Very Dark New Poster for Vanishing on 7th Street
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Share/BookmarkA new poster for Brad Anderson’s latest film, Vanishing on 7th Street, has just been released and it’s dark, chilling and almost apocalyptic in nature. The film, which premiered at TIFF 2010, stars Thandie Newton, Hayden Christensen, John Leguizamo, Taylor Groothuis and Jordan Trovillion. Below you will find the synopsis for the film along with the new poster provided [...]
Trailer for British Coming of Age Feature Killing Bono Now Online
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Share/BookmarkOk, so it’s Monday morning and you’re thinking I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For whilst scouring all the online film news. Here’s a trailer (via The Telegraph) for a new British comedy you which may offer you everything you Desire. The film in question is Killing Bono and it’s based on The Telegraph [...]
Jay Roach Pitches Political Satire starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis
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Share/BookmarkWell it looks like we could see Jay Roach, director of Dinner for Schmucks and Meet the Parents, helming a satirical comedy about the 2012 presidential election. According to Deadline, the comedy would star Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as the two opposing candidates in the race. One important aspect of the pitch is that [...]
New Beastly Trailer is a Howler
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Share/BookmarkI can’t work this one out. At first and second glances you can almost feel the Twilight bandwagon creaking under the weight of yet another film jumping on, with the mixture of supernatural creeps and the unnaturally pretty people not surprisingly being compared to the Vampire saga. Yet, I have a hope that there’s something [...]
Tron: Legacy UK Premiere Video Report and Exclusive Photo Gallery
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Share/BookmarkTwenty eight years after our first dalliance with Kevin Flynn and the digitopolis of Tron, we return to Flynn’s Arcade once more for Tron: Legacy. Joseph Kosinski’s film comes after a long production, and Disney have made sure we’re kept up to date with a marketing assault unlike any other and today the cast and [...]
Watch the Tron: Legacy UK Premiere Streamed LIVE Here
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Share/BookmarkToday sees the UK Premiere of Tron: Legacy right here in London’s Leicester Square. In true premiere fashion, the weather will no doubt be absolutely freezing, pouring with rain or possibly even snowing! All this fun and games kicks off on the live stream from 5.20pm. We’ll be on the red carpet freezing our nuts [...]
