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Writer-director Oren Moverman’s last and first film, The Messenger, earned critical appraise at last year’s Academy Awards, where Moverman and co-writer Allesandro Camon were nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Woody Harrelson earned a well-deserved nomination for Best Supporting Actor. The Messenger may not have done particularly well at the box office, and it sadly [...]
In 1994, explorers in the South of France came upon a cave that had been sealed by a rock slide thousands of years ago. Inside, they found the oldest cave paintings ever discovered, perfectly preserved by that serendipitous accident. Director Werner Herzog recently petitioned the French Government to allow him access to the caves to [...]
First of all, the trailer below is NSFW, not by a long way. Secondly, excellent use of 3D seems likely to be employed, given the body parts, explosions and so forth that come flying at us in the course of the few minutes we have before us now. We’ve had a trailer and posters/stills before, [...]
We’ve had a reasonable amount of news for you over the months regarding the less than smooth development of Eminem-starring boxing project, “Southpaw”. Dreamworks were on board, but have now dropped out and although Summit have expressed interest, an MGM-Sony joint venture now seems to have thrown its hat in. From a script by Sons [...]
The upcoming Shrek spin-off, Puss in Boots, is getting closer and closer to its 9th December release, and as its release draws closer, we can look forward to seeing more of the advertising campaign for the film. We’ve been seeing plenty of the film over the past months, and if you’ve fallen behind, then you [...]
Earlier in the year we reported that Pinewood Shepperton were to invest millions in film production here in the UK and today we’ve been given exclusive access to the first images to emerge from Omid Nooshin’s film Last Passenger starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. In a stroke of brave ingenuity the creative team behind [...]
Last night, London saw the UK Premiere at the London Film Festival for the brand new Geroge Clooney movie, The Ides of March. Clooney not only stars in the movie but co-wrote the screenplay along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon who I got to sit down with and interview earlier today. The film sees [...]
The release of a inmate from prison and their subsequent reintegration into ‘regular’ society is an area that is filled with potential for interesting drama. Ulu Grosbard’s under-seen and underrated 1978 film Straight Time (based on the equally excellent book No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker) uses this premise to explore the way in which the released inmate’s, played by Dustin Hoffman, life is [...]
Here’s part of the the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London that I got to visit last week on the day that the ticket office opened. If you missed part, one, with Tom Felton, Warwick Davis and Natalia Tena, click here and have a watch as I think you’ll enjoy! —————- Last week, I had the [...]
Robert Redford’s Lincoln assassination drama The Conspirator is out on DVD and Blu-ray on the 24th of October and we’ve been given a clip from the film to share with you. Redford has assembled an excellent cast for the film, which had a decent, if a little short lived, theatrical release earlier in the year [...]
I don’t believe in film censorship. I believe that adults (as legally defined) have an inalienable right to watch disturbing or challenging material if they choose to do so. I do however believe in a system of clear and simple film classification, which functions as a set of parental guidelines and as a means by [...]
Subtlety is not an option, clearly. Even so this brief glimpse of the follow up to the goresoaked flesh fair of the first film takes us over the edge and beyond the plains of parody and into something else entirely. In a thirty second spot there’s an unhealthy amount of bikini carnage and slow motion [...]
Sony have finally announced a release date and RRP for its soon-to-be-awesome new handheld system, the PS Vita. And we won’t have to wait that much longer, as it’s set for a 22nd February 2012 release. There will be two versions of the console available on launch – a Wi-Fi model for £229.99 and a [...]
Although he has occasionally showcased his softer side with P.S. I Love You, Nim’s Island and The Ugly Truth, Gerard Butler’s action hero credentials are now firmly established. With 300, Law Abiding Citizen, Gamer and Machine Gun Preacher all on his CV, producers clearly see him as a go to guy for anything robust and [...]
I recently revisited The Cannonball Run, for the first time since my teens. It has not aged well. I had remembered greatly enjoying its excitement, fast cars, squealing tyres and a self-mocking Roger Moore, but that all seemed to have mysteriously evaporated, leaving me with a bland and lifeless film. It could therefore be argued [...]
This year’s NFL league game at Wembley Stadium takes place this weekend against the Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and top coincide with the event, they’ve also hired out Trafalgar Square for a rather special screening of 1996 movie starring Tom Cruise and Renée Zellweger, Jerry Maguire. The movie also stars Oscar winner star, [...]
Schwarzenegger’s appearance alongside Stallone and Willis in the first Expendables film was a glorified cameo and didn’t have nearly as much impact as they all seemed to think it did. Frankly, I felt robbed and it is therefore with some gratitude that I hear that there may be a bit more of him this time [...]
New trailer time for Tintin and there’s a whole lot of One Boy and his Dog to enjoy here as the release date for the 3D Mo-captravaganza from Messrs. Spielberg and Jackson draws ever closer. What’s gratifying on the new posters has the names of writers Stephen Moffat, Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright prominently displayed [...]
With Halloween fast approaching, X-Men 2 and Superman Returns screenwriter Michael Dougherty has a treat in store for fans of his 2007 directorial debut Trick ‘r Treat: a new short film featuring a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo appearance from that movie’s diminutive trickster Sam. Doughtery’s latest effort is entitled Making Friends, and despite running less than two [...]
Scott Derrickson (The Day The Earth Stood Still) seems to be lining up some pretty decent casts for his films of late. Keanu Reeves top-lined The Day The Earth Stood Still a few years back; Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Taylor Lautner were announced last month as closely circling the leading roles in his upcoming [...]
