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If you were one of the lucky ones who took a chance on the secret screening at this year’s New York Film Festival then you can feel pretty pleased with yourselves as it was revealed yesterday that a ‘work-in-progress’ print of Martin Scorsese’s 3D adaptation of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, or Hugo [...]
The more I hear about the upcoming Paradise Lost project, the more I fall in love with it. To start off with, it’s going to be helmed by Alex Proyas, the awesome director who brought us the brilliant and visually awesome I, Robot. And every time we’re given more news about the cast, it just [...]
The casting for the adaptation of Max Brooks’ World War Z has so far been pretty awesome. When you start off with Brad Pitt in the leading role, you’ve already got yourself a golden cast. And when you add to that the rising Mireille Enos (TV’s The Killing), James Badge Dale (TV’s 24 and The [...]
Say what you like about the necessity of an English language remake of one of the most successful Swedish films in recent years the prospect of a new David Fincher film is enticing indeed and having Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara leading his version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo means this one is [...]
There are so few films that get made these days in which a director, writer, and cast genuinely stretch themselves to try and make something different. Bunraku is one of those films. And it is awesome almost beyond words. Writer-director Guy Moshe clearly had a vision for his film, and together with a fantastic cast [...]
Momentum have released a new trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s next film which has MMA star Gina Carano lining up Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Channing Tatum and Michael Douglas and then kicking her way to vengence. This trailer gives a good indication what to expect and we’ve seen the full scene, glimsped in the trailer below, [...]
Much like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life earlier this year, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is a bit of a divisive film. There’ll be plenty of people (myself included) who absolutely love it, but I’ve no doubt that many people won’t really take to it. I highly recommend that you go and search it out [...]
The story of the plucky train whose can-do spirit has been a staple of kindergarten America for over a century comes to DVD in an entirely new rendition awash in CGI and the obligatory star name voiceover artists. While storybooks have told and retold the story over the years, with updates, tiny alterations and new [...]
On the off chance you haven’t been to a cinema recently or seen any of the advertising for it elsewhere, you may not have heard the fantastic news that the 1994 classic Disney film, The Lion King, has just been re-released in cinemas in 3D. I was too young to see it as a child [...]
A proposal to Amanda Neville and Greg Dyke on behalf of the British Film Institute, and Greg Dyke on behalf of the Department for Media, Culture and Sport, On the face of it, the British film industry seems to be in pretty good health. With countless American films being shot in the country, a large [...]
This week sees the release of Paul W.S. Anderson’s energetic take on Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers and a few days ago Dave had the chance to sit down with the director and his cast to talk about this new version of the classic story. While this is a world away from the zombie hijinks [...]
Vincent (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a highly-paid and thoroughly ruthless assassin. Roland Flint (Scott Adkins) was an undercover agent, caught by the villainous Polo (Ivan Kaye) and forced to watch while his beloved wife was gang-raped and then beaten into a coma from which she has yet to awaken. Flint has disappeared with his wife [...]
For anyone yet to see the end of the fourth season of Gossip Girl, look away now, because spoilers will no doubt be dotted amongst this review, and I wouldn’t want to ruin any of the earlier episodes for you. With that spoiler warning firmly intact, here goes nothing. Gossip Girl’s return with its fifth [...]
When two of the most talked-about television shows of the past decade end, what do you think would be a good idea? Get the creator of one to team up with the lead star of another, and develop another new and awesome TV show that will get people talking again. With 24’s Kiefer Sutherland leading [...]
Over the past few years, Clint Eastwood has been taking more turns directing films than acting, giving us seven films as a director in the past five years (including the upcoming J. Edgar) and just one in which he’s acted – Gran Torino. His next film was originally to be another directing project, helming A [...]
Two days ago we were treated to a couple of images and a trailer for Simon Curtis’ film My Week with Marilyn and two things were immediately clear. Firstly that the period detail is spot on and secondly that Michelle Williams is certainly up to the challenge of embodying one of the most beautiful and [...]
If cute penguins are your bag then you’ll be in furry bird heaven with the latest Happy Feet film and there’s a new trailer out to further entice and tease. It’s solid family friendly fare from the looks of it and where else, other than in the world of CG anthropomorphic animation, could you find [...]
Based on Ronnie Thompson’s autobiographical account of his time as a prison officer Screwed is an intense and violent portrayal of life behind bars and Reg Traviss’ film is out on Blu-ray and DVD on the 17th of October. We’ve been given an exclusive look behind the scenes of the film with one of the [...]
Although The Big Year appears to lack the bite and edge that one might hope for from a Steve Martin vehicle, it is perhaps in keeping with the gradual softening of his output (as well as that of his cohorts Jack Black and Owen Wilson) and hey, as our Steven Neish is forever saying regarding [...]
Nostalgia is all the rage and so we turn our faces back to the past for the latest instalment of Paranormal Activity to discover what went on all those years ago to cause the events of the first two films. We’ve seen a lot of footage so far and it looks a fairly similar affair [...]
