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First Pic from Rourke and Fox’s Passion Play

February 9, 2010 · Comments

The first image to emerge from the Mickey Rourke/Megan Fox film Passion Play is here, and it looks as if the two are dancing on the set of The Wizard of Oz in this one. Megan Fox is a angel, trapped in a carnival sideshow while Rourke is a down and out trumpet player who saves Fox’s character from the oppressive hand of Happy Shannon, not the head clown in the circus, but a vicious gangster played by Bill Murray. Well, I was sold on Bill Murray but this looks to be a nicely low key tale of redemption and salvation (with Bill Murray). This is Mitch Glazer’s first film behind the camera... [Read the full story]

Reviews

Review: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

February 8, 2010 · Comments

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series of five books written by Rick Riordan. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is the first of the book and sets the scene for both us, the audience and for Percy himself. After the Harry Potter series, kids seem to be in need of another fix of something mysterious and wonderful and it seems that Percy Jackson is where it’s at. It’s not so big in the UK yet but after the release of the new movie with a mix of all star cast and semi-newcomers, will the films start a wave of Percy Jackson here in the UK? Hopefully my review of the film might help... [Read the full story]

Trailers & Clips

New Trailer for Neil Jordan’s Ondine

February 7, 2010 · Comments

Neil Jordan’s filmography is full of powerful, fantastical tales with Mona Lisa and The Crying Game two iconic early works. His 2009 film, Ondine, was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival last year is due out sometime this year and there’s a nice new trailer out today. Telling the story of an Irish fisherman, played by Colin Farrell who catches a mermaid in his net, this would appear to play nicely alongside Jordan other supernatural films such as The Company of Wolves and In Dreams. What is certain from the trailer, cinematographer Christopher Doyle has made the most of... [Read the full story]

Features

Exclusive Interview with Zach Galligan on CUT

February 9, 2010 · Comments

Zach Galligan might not be a name that you immediately recognise but if I tell you that he played a character Billy and that he had a sidekick (in a way) called Gizmo, you might get closer to the man that we interviewed about his new movie, CUT. Zach Galligan was the lead in Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch and today, he lands in the UK to promote his new movie, CUT which is directed by Alexander Williams. Cut is different to any other movie you’ll have seen as the entire movie is done in one long, continuous take. We’ve seen the movie and our review will be online here nearer... [Read the full story]

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First Pic from Rourke and Fox’s Passion Play

February 9, 2010 · Comments

Competitions

Competiton: Win Merchandise from The Wolfman

February 8, 2010 · Comments

To celebrate the new release of Universal’s new movie, The Wolfman, they been kind enough to provide us with loads of cool merchandise from the new movie.The Wolfman is released this Wednesday 10th February. If you’ve not seen it yet, head over here to view the trailer. Synopsis: Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged... [Read the full story]

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Mr & Mrs Smith Off to the Reboot Factory

What made Doug Liman’s married hitman couple action comedy work was the chemistry of its stars (and the faint waft of scandal behind the scenes played its part too), the pyrotechnics of the gunplay combined nicely with the peppy dialogue and though there’s not much once the surface is scratched it was a...

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief – Audio Interviews with Steve Coogan and Kevin McKidd

Last week HeyUGuys were lucky enough to get invited along to the press conference for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. I was there armed with my video camera and you can watch the entire press conference in full here. After the press conference, along with a group of my fellow bloggers and journalists, I was...

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Avatar Knocks Mamma Mia off the UK Top Spot

Wonderful news today that shows there is indeed justice in the world! The figures have come out for this week’s releases to show that Avatar has now knocked Mamma Mia off the top spot to become the UK’s highest grossing ever film. Avatar in the UK now joins the world and the US domestic figures to keep...

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24 The Movie Finally in Development

There’s been talk of a 24 movie for years and the closest it got was a 2 hour TV special where Jack Bauer ended up in Africa and was called 24: Redemption. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed it but it seems that Keifer Sutherland (who is an executive producer on the hit TV series) has managed to convince...

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Tim Robbins Joins The Green Lantern

Good news for fans of The Green Lantern in that THR have reported today that Tim Robbins has signed on to join the cast to play the ‘disapproving father’, Senator Hammond of the badie, Dr. Hector Hammond who is played by Peter Sarsgaard. Robbins joins the movie that has also already cast Ryan Reynolds in...

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New Set Photos for Jonah Hex Reshoots

Jonah Hex is currently reshooting some scenes for the movie which stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Michael Shannon and is directed by Jimmy Hayward. SpoilerTV have today released some new set shots from the reshoots showing Josh Brolin and Megan Fox. Jonah Hex is scheduled for release 18th...

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Evening Standard British Film Awards Announced

The surfeit of talent on show tonight at the London Evening Standard British Film Awards is a great indication of the place British film finds itself at the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century. Andrea Arnold’s tough tale of life on a council estate and winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes...

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Review: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

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The Thing Prequel Has its Cast

Last month we reported on the character breakdowns for Matthijs Van Heijningen’s prequel to John Carpenter’s parasitic alien thriller The Thing, and today Heat Vision have given names to a couple of the leads. You can see those character breakdowns in full here, but the two roles cast are: [KATE LLOYD]...

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MouthOff Episode 6 – The HeyUGuys Official Podcast Returns!

It’s been a while but the latest episode of MouthOff, the official podcast of HeyUGuys is finally here. Dave, Gary and I were joined by /Film’s UK correspondent Brendon Connelly to talk over the latest film news and reviews, this week we delved into Disney’s latest hand-drawn animation movie The...

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Bill Murray Talks Ghostbusters 3

Who you gonna call? UK newspaper, the Mail on Sunday has managed to find out some more details about Bill Murray’s character in the Ivan Reitman Directed Ghostbusters 3. (Slight spoiler ahead) The good news is that he’s confirmed that he’ll be in the movie and he goes on to say that he told the producers...

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HeyUGuys IMDb250 Project – Week 3

The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films, as ranked by the users of the biggest movie Internet site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of The Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie masses, and arguably...

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Watch the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief UK Press Conference in Full

Last week, almost all of the cast of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief descended on London to promote their new movie. Chris Columbus, the man who brought us Gremlins, Home Alone, Mrs Doubtfire, the first two Harry Potter movies and some film called The Goonies was with them and proved himself to be the legend...

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Review: A Single Man

Tom Ford’s feature debut is a triumph of style and substance, of ecstatic emotions and deadening grief which among its merits is the chance it gives for its lead, Colin Firth, to realise his potential as an actor with a performance worthy of the awards nominations it is receiving. He has done some fine work in...

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2010 Super TV Spots

The Super Bowl is the place where the big film studios get to show of their upcoming movies to an audience that is estimated to be around 100m in the US alone let alone the nutters like me who stay up to the wee small hours watching men smash into each other with full body armour. Think they should all watch a big...

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Joe Johnston Talks Captain America, Confirms Red Skull

Doing the rounds promoting Universal’s The Wolfman director Joe Johnston has been answering questions about his forthcoming adaptation of the Marvel comic book series Captain America. The World War II period story will focus on the origin of Captain America and Johnston has confirmed that Red Skull will be the...

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Up, Coraline and Princess and the Frog honoured at the Annies

The 37th annual Annie awards were held last night with Pixar’s Up taking the prize for the Best Animated feature, adding weight to the expectation that it will walk away with the Oscar for Best Animated Feature when the awards are handed out on March the 7th. The International Animated Film Society also honoured...

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