Exclusive Interview – Director James Erskine Talks From the Ashes

From the Ashes UK Poster

Last week I got to chat with director, James Erskine about his brand new movie, From the Ashes which has a cinema release this evening and will be streamed to 127 cinemas around the UK followed by a Q&A with Ian Botham and Kim Hughes. You can find which cinemas are screening the movie on [...]

The Colomobiana Poster Puts a Gun to Zoe Saldana’s Head

colombiana poster

The recently released trailer for Colombiana put many in mind of a sequel of sorts to Producer Luc Besson’s 1994 Leon with its familiar theme of parental murder and subsequent revenge thrills and director Olivier Megaton’s eye clearly has learned a lot from Besson. There’s a new poster is the offing tonight and it’s a [...]

Win Elephant White on DVD

Elephant White DVD Packshot

Please note, this is a US only competition We must have run hundreds of competitions over the last 2 and a half year but 99% of them have always been to our UK audience. We know that we get a lot of readers from the US so finally, here’s a competition just for you! To [...]

‘Conan’ Director Marcus Nispel has Next Film Lined up

marcus nispel

After four remakes/reboots in a row (including this summer’s Conan the Barbarian) Marcus Nispel’s next feature will not only be an original story, but it’s also based on his own idea. Entitled Backmask (and budgeted at a relatively low $10 million), little is known about the project, apart from the director revealing that is will [...]

The King’s Speech Blu-ray Review

king's speech blu-ray

It’s easy to become blinded by the shine from its multiple awards but the Blu-ray and DVD release of The King’s Speech is an opportunity to enjoy Tom Hooper’s excellent film again, and it’s an opportunity well worth taking. The film tells the story of the ascension of King George VI to the throne and [...]

New Image of Henry Cavill in Immortals

Immortals

Following up from the brilliant first trailer of the film last week and the great set of character posters earlier last month, Collider has got a new picture of Henry Cavill as Theseus in Tarsem Singh’s upcoming film, Immortals. Keeping in theme with almost all movies of this scale at the moment, Immortals will be [...]

Chico & Rita DVD Review

Chico & Rita

Love and jazz collide quite magnificently in this wonderful animated feature, co-directed by Fernando Trueba (whose live-action film, Belle époque, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film back in 2004). The story (told via flashback for the majority of the time) begins in late forties Cuba, where talented pianist Chico meets the women of his [...]

Wolverine to Return for Second Class?

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Bryan Singer, who is returning to the X-fold after bailing on X-Men: Last Stand during production, has hinted that should this year’s franchise reboot prove successful, we could be seeing the return of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine for Second Class. “I think there would definitely be room. I think it would be a very exciting thing. [...]

Official Poster and Images from Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive

drive

Nicolas Winding Refn may have the Logan’s Run remake in his future but we’re concerning ourselves with his Cannes contender Drive here. He has bagged a great cast with Ryan Gosling taking the lead with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks and Oscar Issac and all eyes will be on the director’s next move following [...]

First Look at Brad Pitt in Cogan’s Trade

Brad Pitt Cogan's Trade

The Playlist is showing the first picture of Brad Pitt in the upcoming film, Cogan’s Trade, adapted by writer/director Andrew Dominik from the 1974 novel of the same name by George V. Higgins. It’s not clear if the picture is an official still or just an on-set photo, but it looks pretty promising either way. [...]

Final Destination 5 Trailer Finds New Crazy Ways to Kill People!

FINAL DESTINATION 5

Here it is people, the fifth movie in the Final Destination franchise. Interestingly, the previous movie was called The Final Destination but obviously people flocked to the cinema in droves to see it therefore bring us the fifth!! Final Destination 5 stars Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Arlen Escarpeta, Tony Todd, David Koechner and is directed [...]

Martin Sheen Interview – Argo, Spider-man Spoilers and Brando Impressions

Martin Sheen & Marlon Brando

During a roundtable junket with Martin Sheen for The Way, Sheen went on some fantastic tangents and rather than include them in our coverage of the The Way interviews (which can be found here) we’ve instead collected them here. On the question of working on The Amazing Spider-Man Sheen spoke briefly about his experience on [...]

Virtua Tennis 4 Review

Virtua Tennis 4

It’s impressive really, that Top Spin has been able to muscle its way onto gaming’s Centre Court over the years. Virtua Tennis, since its very first incarnation, has managed to bottle the irresistibly entertaining lightning captured within what is – for all intents and purposes – Pong on Steroids. So 12 years after its not-too-shabby [...]

The Home Alone House Goes Up For Sale

home alone house

“Are your parents home?” “Yes, but they don’t live here”. Do you remember this scene, with a smirking but very confused Joe Pesci standing by the entrance of the McCallister house, dressed up as phony policeman, while a multitude of people rushes around screaming and bellowing for pizza and voltage adaptors? Well, now you can [...]

Unlawful Killing Trailer – Princess Diana Documentary Set to Cause Controversy at Cannes

Princess Diana - Landmine

This week, the 64th Cannes International Film Festival kicks off and you’ll no doubt see more trailers and posters for movies screening there as the week progresses. One such movie is ‘Unlawful Killing’ a documentary directed by Keith Allen looking in depth at the death of Princess Diana on the year that she would mark [...]

Menhaj Huda Interview for Everywhere and Nowhere

Everywhere ad Nowhere

Kidulthood director Menhaj Huda returns to UK cinemas this week with Everywhere and Nowhere, another coming-of-age tale focusing on a British Asian teenager (James Floyd, pictured below) wrestling with how to lead his own life, while having to contend with what’s expected of him from his family and culture. We had the chance to chat [...]

The Way Interviews – Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez and David Alexanian

The Way Poster

Set for release in UK cinemas on the 13th of May and in the US on the 30th of September, The Way is the latest directorial effort from Emilio Estevez and stars his father, Martin Sheen. Martin Sheen plays Tom, a man who, following the death of his son (played by Estevez), decides to walk the El camino de Santiago, [...]

Eerie Teaser Trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In

The Skin I Live In

Sony Pictures Classics have released the first teaser trailer for The Skin I Live In, and it packs an unsettling punch. The Skin I Live In marks the return of visionary Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, and stars Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Bárbara Lennie, Blanca Suárez and Fernando Cayo. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard [...]

Wes Bentley Signs On For The Hunger Games

'There be Dragons' Premiere in Madrid

THR reports that the much anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games has another cast member for the film. Wes Bentley, best known for his acclaimed performance in American Beauty, has signed on to play the role of Seneca Crane in the upcoming post-apocalyptic film. Bentley is without a doubt an actor [...]

Win Trackman on DVD

Trackman

To celebrate the release of Trackman on DVD on 16th May, Lions Gate Home Entertainment have given us three copies to give away. Synopsis: A perfect bank heist turns deadly when the criminals and their hostages flee to an abandoned underground subway station to escape the authorities. Searching for a way out, they don’t realise [...]