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Before he dabbled with Source Code for his latest project Duncan Jones directed a sublime sci-fi movie Moon, I’m sure you’ve heard of it. The film’s existential themes and measured narrative pacing in no way lend themselves to a money spinning video game conversion for the XBox 360 or PS3, which makes this imagined adaptation [...]
This is a no-brainer (excuse the pun) if ever there was one. Master of horror Stephen King has confirmed that’s he’s in talks to write an episode of the TV adaptation of famed zombie graphic novel series, The Walking Dead. In a welcome display of industry back-scratching, King’s possible involvement stems from his relationship with [...]
Jeff Daniels is currently in talks to take the lead male part in Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama pilot, Deadline are reporting. The as-yet-unnamed pilot would see Daniels playing news anchor Will McCallister, “who has his own cable show, his female executive producer and his staff. Will is described as a famous cable newsman of [...]
With a stellar British cast, Made In Dagenham is the inspiring story of the women who made history. Award-winning Sally Hawkins is Rita O’Grady, a feisty yet warm-hearted worker at the Ford car plant in Dagenham who leads the girls in a revolution for equal pay for women. Not only is Made in Dagenham a [...]
Brand new British movie, Attack the Block (written and directed by Joe Cornish – of Adam and Joe fame) went down a treat at SXSW recently with pretty much everyone in loving it to pieces. It won the midnight screening audience award and you can read my 5 star review of the movie here. /Film [...]
Sundance breakout star Brit Marling (Political Disasters) has been cast in Arbitrage, Movieline has revealed. Marling, who replaces Eva Green (Casino Royale), will star opposite Susan Sarandon (The Lovely Bones) and Richard Gere (Pretty Woman) in the financial drama. A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error [...]
Optimum Releasing have unveiled the official UK poster for twisted killer tyre film Rubber. Directed by Quentin Dupieux, Rubber revolves around a tyre, Robert, that’s been buried and forgotten in the middle of the desert. When, for some unknown reason, Robert wakes up and discovers his destructive telepathic powers, he soon sets his sights on [...]
Ridley Scott’s new movie, Prometheus is growing traction with every passing day with casting news coming out of ours ears but what we want to know is, where is the movie going to shoot? US movie trade magazine, The Hollywood Reporter recently ran an article saying that Scott’s new feature, is to shoot at Pinewood [...]
There’s only once in my life that I’ve come close to being labelled ‘world class’. Back at University, in those hazy days full of Neighbours addiction, shopping trolley ‘borrowing’, and drinking my own weight in Snakebite, my housemate and I were once ranked 3rd – globally – at Top Spin. Alas the snakebite took its [...]
Empire have exclusively revealed the official UK poster for The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. Adapted from the Jacques Tardi’s fantasy-adventure comic book, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is directed by Luc Besson (Leon) and stars Louise Bourgoin, Gilles Lellouche, Jacky Nercessian, Philippe Nahon, Jean-Paul Rouve, Mathieu Amalric and Nicolas Giraud. An adventure set in the early party of the 20th century focused on a [...]
Julianne Moore has been cast in Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Seventh Son. Moore will star opposite Jeff Bridges (Tron: Legacy) in the adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s The Spook’s Apprentice, the first story in the fantasy-adventure series The Wardstone Chronicles. The plot is centred around a 13-year-old farm boy named Tom who lives in the countryside of The [...]
With a gory and Gothic opening Lucio Fulci thrusts us straight into a world in which chains tear at flesh in the most grisly ways possible and the most effective way of finally finishing off a man you’re torturing and murdering is with a semi-crucifixion and a lot of acid to the face. This is [...]
Today sees the release on DVD and Blu-ray of the third chapter in the Jack Trilogy – Jack Falls, a film we’ve been following for some time and we had the chance to sit down with writer/director Paul Tanter to talk about the film, the pressures and pleasures of a first time directing gig and [...]
Much has been made over the increasingly blurred lines between videogames and cinema. Although for every Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2, they are inevitably and overwhelmingly outnumbered by a Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within or Tron: Legacy The Video Game. So after countless poor, pretentious and pants attempts at artfully merging the two, we’d like [...]
The first dispatches from the set of The Hobbit are here, where returning director Peter Jackson and his team have begun production of the two films which will tell the story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale, of Bilbo Baggins and the dragon Smaug. It seemed that the road to production would go ever onwards but [...]
There’s nothing quite like a new Pirates of the Caribbean trailer to kick those Monday morning blues into a corner, and so let this new peek at those Stranger Tides soothe you into the working week why don’t you? We’ve been teased with a first look trailer a few months ago and between pictures and [...]
The Gathering is the new movie starring Christina Ricci and is released on 28th March. We’ve been given five copies of the movie to give away. Starring Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Sleepy Hollow, Monster), Ioan Gruffudd (Fantastic Four, Sanctum) and Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave) comes this beautifully set British horror that’s an enthralling and [...]
To celebrate the release of Zack Synder’s brand new movie, SUCKER PUNCH on the 1st April, Warner Bros. Pictures have given us three sets of goodie bags to give away. Each bag will contain an Official Soundtrack, a canvas bag, a t-shirt, a bandana, a temporary tattoo, a black napkin, a coffee cup sleeve, a [...]
To celebrate the release of The Warrior’s Way on DVD and Blu-ray 28th March, we’ve been give five copies of the movie to give away in High-Definition! Synopsis: The world’s greatest swordsman abandons his warrior clan to start a new life in America in The Warrior’s Way, a fantasy action adventure from the producer of [...]
Ken Loach returns to the political arena with the taut, violent Route Irish, a cautionary tale about the privatization of modern war propelled by a riveting, intricately plotted mystery. Ex-SAS private security contractor Fergus (Mark Womack) returns to Liverpool from Iraq to attend the funeral of his friend Frankie (John Bishop) who was killed on ‘Route [...]
