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Having recently returned from a study trip to Manchester, Gabríel (Atli Oskar Fjalarsson) is eager to keep a new crush from his friends and family. Tracking Markús (Haraldur Ari Stefánsson) down to a local hairdresser’s, Gabríel accompanies him to a nearby party only to have his feelings betrayed and his world thrown into turmoil. Gabríel isn’t the [...]
HeyUGuys brings you the latest in World Cinema film trailers in association with Film Dates UK. Each week we’ll be showcasing some of most anticipated foreign releases as well as highlighting a few hidden gems which may have fallen off your radar. It’s no surprise that Hollywood has turned to World Cinema for inspiration in [...]
Ghosted, a gritty and brutal prison drama, is the feature length debut from camera-operator and short filmmaker Craig Viveiros. The film centers on Jack (John Lynch), a model prisoner who has kept his head down and is close to completing his time. However, after his wife leaves him for another man, his final lifeline comes in the [...]
Rowan Joffe’s debut feature, an updated adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel set in the 1930s Brighton underworld, was largely met with hostility from critics and indifference from cinemagoers when it was released earlier this year. The film will have another chance to find an audience when it’s released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 20th. [...]
Earlier this year I got to go along to a fancy manor house in Surrey to see new movie, The Knot being filmed. You can read my report from the day spent in glorious sunshine during the day of filming later on in the year but before that, the makers of the movie need your [...]
Here’s a nice new poster for Warrior which stars Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy. It comes via the lovely chaps at Moviefone and is scheduled to hit UK shores on the 7th October and the US September 9th. We should hopefully be meeting up with both the main stars at some point very soon so [...]
Mention Mel Gibson’s new film The Beaver, and the standard retort is, “who wants to see that?” after what the actor’s said in public. Reminiscent to loathing a political party, based on a figurehead’s opinions and actions, fallen star Gibson has a lot of campaigning to do. But putting all the less-than-attractive Gibson character traits [...]
There is a thought-provoking idea behind The Turnin Horse, just over the stark horizon and obscured behind a flurry of leaves: what of the untold stories which litter history? The lives never committed to fable, legend or film? The opening voice-over tells of an alleged encounter Friedrich Nietzsche once had with a cabman engaged in beating his horse. [...]
After news came last week that writer-director Darren Aronofsky is looking to make a movie about the biblical story of the Great Flood, entitled Noah, Vulture are now reporting that Christian Bale is in talks to star in what would presumably be the lead role. Aronofsky’s vision for the film is a great one, and [...]
Life in a Day is a portrait of the universal (and strangely comforting) banality of every day life around the world, shot on a single day last July; it’s a surprisingly entertaining narrative, created as it from amateurish (many in and of themselves, mundane) submissions made by tens of thousands of people, and is a [...]
The Rite is jumping out onto Blu-ray and DVD in a few days and we’ve managed to tie down Matt Baglio,the author of the original book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcism, and ask him about his involvement with the film and his experiences with the exorcism class which inspired the project. Baglio [...]
In Life in a Day, Oscar(r) winning director Kevin Macdonald has crafted, in collaboration with YouTube, Ridley Scott and a world wide pool of contributors numbering in the thousands, a portrait of one day (July 24th, 2010 to be precise) in the life of planet Earth. I spoke with Kevin last week about the influences [...]
Here’s something rather snazzy! I’m a massive fan of anything that means I’m not tired to a desk by a cable. Logitech have announced a brand new Wireless HD Webcam which means you can now walk around the house with the device rather than using extension cables or carrying your laptop around trying to position [...]
Tomboy is French writer-director Céline Sciamma’s follow-up to the highly praised Water Lilies, and it again follows a confused child discovering her sexuality. This time the narrative centers on Laure (Zoé Héran), a 10-year-old tomboy. When she moves to a new neighbourhood with her parents, she engages in a gender confused role-play in which she pretends to [...]
Cars 2 is building up a typically fine head of steam as its release date approaches. I was not a great fan of the first film, which felt like a rather obvious indulging of John Lassater’s personal proclivities, rather than a project likely to carry universal appeal. You can catch up on all of our [...]
Beginning with a large chuck of inaudible exposition and a digitally-rendered landscape and trio of characters that even George Lucas would criticise for looking too much like an Xbox game, we’re plunged into the world of the Green Lantern Corps – a collective of peacekeepers from around the galaxy who are having to contend with [...]
This evening is going rather nuts. First there is news that Russell Crowe may play Jor-El in Zack Snyder’s Superman: Man of Steel and now we see that Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and The General’s Daughter) will direct The Expendables 2! The Expendables was a bringing together of both 80s and [...]
Barry Levinson (Sphere, Sleepers, Rain Man) recently directed Al Pacino to Emmy-winning glory as Jack Kevorkian in HBO’s “You Don’t Know Jack”. They are already looking to unite again for “Gotti: Three Generations, but before that they look to be squeezing in another collaboration, The Humbling. The Humbling is an adaptation of the Philip Roth [...]
Watching the Superman anthology on Blu-ray last week gave me a new appreciation for Marlon Brando’s stunt casting in the Richard Donner films. He was naturally very good as Jor-El, the Kryptionian scientist who cassandra’d his way into the mythology of Superman by predicting the imminent destruction of his home planet, and placing his gravitas [...]
Dick Tracy was a peculiar film on its release some 20 years ago. Maligned by some as bloated and ridiculous, enjoyed by others for its fidelity to the tone of its source material, it has continued to divide audiences ever since. Personally, I could gladly go without more of Warren Beatty’s detective, but there is [...]
