SXSW: Yelling to the Sky Review

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Victoria Mahoney directs her first feature film, Yelling to the Sky, centered on the life of seventeen year old, Sweetness O’Hara played by Zoe Kravitz. With an abusive father who is in and out of her life, a mom suffering from a mental illness and a sister preoccupied with her own issues and taking care her [...]

Attack the Block Wins SXSW 2011 Midnight Screening Audience Award!

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SXSW have just announced that British Film, Attack the Block has won the audience choice for the midnight feature at the 2011 festival. This is such amazing news and is thoroughly deserved as the film is just awesome. You can read my review here. This evening, the movie will screen one last time at SXSW [...]

SXSW Day 8 Roundup – The Failure That Was Kumare, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams & Insidious!

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Fear not people, the title is by no means a hint at a review of any of the films but more the lack of me watching them! Yesterday was a roasting hot day here in Austin tipping 30 degrees centigrade throughout most of the day. This was good and bad. The good is that it [...]

Blackbeard and Barbossa Bonanza in New Pirates of the Caribbean Posters

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Casting Ian McShane as Captain Blackbeard was a particularly fine move from Jerry Bruckheimer as it gave those of us who have felt the drag of the last Pirates of the Caribbean film a much needed kick up the expectations, now he gets his own poster as does returning cad and turncoat Captain Barbossa. PIR4TES [...]

New Poster, Trailer & Images for The Way

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Icon have just sent us the brand new poster, trailer and images from their new movie, The Way which is directed by Emilio Estevez and stars his real-time father, Martin Sheen. We got to talk to them both about the movie recently and Craig’s interview post will go up sometime in the near future. The [...]

UK Trailer For The Man From Nowhere

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Directed by Jeong-beom Lee (Cruel Winter Blues), this new Korean action thriller finally reaches UK shores after a wave of box office and critical success abroad and we have the new UK trailer to share with you. The Man From Nowhere quickly became a box office success in Korea in 2010, with over 6 million [...]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Confirmed for The Dark Knight Rises, Juno Temple in Talks for Supporting Role

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s involvement in The Dark Knight Rises has been confirmed, Showblitz has learned. Gordon-Levitt, who has been in negotiations since February, will star opposite Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman in the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman threequel. What role he’ll play is still unknown. In addition, it’s being [...]

SXSW – Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop Review

Can’t Stop Conan. Austin, TX – ‘Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop’ is an intimate look into the comedian’s  life during his The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. The film is kind of like ‘This is It‘  the documentary on Michael Jackson before his untimely passing, only difference is Conan didn’t die. His exhaustive routine [...]

Coldplay Join The World Of Production With Ashes

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Variety are reporting that Coldplay are venturing into the world of film financing in the production of contemporary film noir Ashes. The film has a budget of under £5 million, which will in part be provided by the band, CinemaNX (supported by the Isle of Man Government), private investor Merzbau, and Fiesta Productions. Little is [...]

SXSW – Kill List Review

Austin, TX – What happens when you merge a hitman genre film, with the cultish mystery of a Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut? You get Kill List, a UK film from director Ben Wheatley, starring Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Michael smiley, and Emma Fryer. The film follows an ex-military husband-and-wife team, who, along with their friend [...]

First Poster for Warrior Shows Tom Hardy & Joel Edgerton Squaring Up!

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Lionsgate have now official released these rather cool new poster or posters on their Facebook page for new movie, Warrior which is directed by Gavin O’Connor. The movie stars man of the moment, Tom Hardy alongside Jennifer Morrison, Nick Nolte, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich and Kevin Dunn but it’s Hardy and Edgerton that we get [...]

Scream 4 TV Spot #1 – Never This Much Fun

We’ve just been sent the first TV spot for horror-slasher sequel Scream 4, titled Never This Much Fun, and it features some brand new, never-before-seen footage. Directed by Wes Craven, the Dimension Films production stars Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Rory Culkin and Nico Tortorella. Sidney Prescott, now the author [...]

SXSW – Foo Fighters: Back and Forth – Documentary Trailer

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Austin, TX – The Foo Fighters have a documentary coming along which will coincide with the bands seventh studio album release this spring. FOO FIGHTERS: BACK AND FORTH, chronicles 16 years of the Foo Fighters history, the formation, good times and rocky times for the band. The film had its premiere here at the SXSW [...]

SXSW – Day 6 & 7 Roundup

It’s kind of hard to remember what I’ve been up to in last few hours let alone the last two days but I shall do my best to fill you in! The music part of the festival is now in full swing and it’s amazing to see how the people change when from interactive to [...]

Silence Crime With Two Clips from James Gunn’s Super

Gathering buzz from its showing at SXSW James Gunn’s Super is looking very interesting indeed. Two clips, one from Twitch and the other from Coming Soon, should be just the ticket if you’re till not on board the Super train, be warned though – the second clip is all kinds of nasty, making the  final [...]

Feast Your Eyes on Two New Thor Posters

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Why not brighten up your dull Friday with a pair of posters for Marvel’s Thor. The trailers we’ve seen so far all point to a decent adaptation and there’s a strange momentum building around this film, which doesn’t have the pop culture kudos of Super, Bat, or Spider-Man. Thor is the next slice of Marvel [...]

Jack Falls Review

The final chapter in Paul Tanter’s Jack trilogy is an effective thriller rooted in, but not burdened by, the gritty London gangster genre and completes the story of Jack Adleth in a compelling fashion. As this is the endgame the film is stripped down to its essentials; the momentum of the film carries everything and [...]

Featurette Takes us Behind the Scenes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Warner Bros. have just sent us two new images and a rather nice featurette from their new movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 which will conclude the Potter series forever (probably?!). The new featurette is titled ‘A First Look Behind The Scenes of Deathly Hallows – Part 2′ and does what it [...]

Jack Falls Premiere at The Mayfair Hotel

This week, HeyUGuys were lucky enough to be invited to the May Fair hotel in London for the premiere of British gangster flick Jack Falls. The concluding part of a trilogy, the film is released on DVD and Blu-ray this Monday. Adapted from the graphic novels written by Paul Tanter (who makes his directorial debut [...]

Russ Meyer Biopic in the Works With David O. Russell Named as Potential Director

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Here’s good news for fans of cult filmmaker Russ Meyer. The life of times of the 60’s and 70’s sexploitation king is to receive the big screen treatment. Deadline are reporting that The Fighter’s David O. Russell is being bandied around as a potential name to direct, and Fox Searchlight are currently in discussions to [...]