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Fear, Blood, and Panic in Red-Band First Trailer for V/H/S/2
The anthology horror movie V/H/S debuted at Sundance last year to brilliant early reviews, and almost a year later to the day, the anthology sequel, V/H/S/2, returned to Utah to equally promising praise. The film has continued on the festival circuit in recent weeks, and with only a few more to go before its early [...]
New Trailer for DreamWorks’ Turbo with Ryan Reynolds
Having found a big family hit in The Croods this spring, DreamWorks will be back on the big screen in the summer season with another animated blockbuster bound to be a family-favourite in Turbo. The Croods took north of half a billion dollars at the box office, which was a big win for the studio [...]
First Teaser Trailer and Poster for Blood Ties with Clive Owen, Billy Crudup & Mila Kunis
Making its world premiere out at Cannes this week, Blood Ties sees acclaimed French director Guillaume Canet making his English language debut, bringing together one of the best casts of the year for the upcoming thriller. Led by Clive Owen and Billy Crudup as two brothers in 1970s New York, the film has screened Out [...]
Six of the Best Tarantino Scenes
The films of Quentin Tarantino offer many potential choices when you’re compiling a collection with the title you see above. The obvious choices spring gleefully to mind: the countless bodies falling at the sword of The Bride in the slaughter of The Crazy 88, the final stand off between Mr White, Nice Guy Eddie and [...]
Exclusive Poster: Get Lucky
Here’s a first look at the brand new poster for new Brit movie Get Lucky which stars Luke Treadaway, James Cosmo, Emily Atack, Craig Fairbrass, T.J. Ramini, Jason Maza and Rebecca Ferdinando. We saw the movie recently and really enjoyed it. It’s set for release in the UK August 9th and if you missed the [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Amanda Seyfried talks Epic, Seth MacFarlane and Her Dream Role
Amanda Seyfried is clearly a standout in the realm of young leading ladies with huge roles in films like LES MISERABLES, MAMMA MIA!, and JENNIFER’S BODY. We got a chance to sit down with her as part of our coverage of Fox’s new animated film, EPIC. Seyfried plays MK, a young girl who goes off [...]
Terrific First Full-Length Trailer for Europa Report with Sharlto Copley
Back in November last year, we saw a very intriguing first teaser trailer for The Europa Report, a sci-fi thriller movie led by District 9’s Sharlto Copley. At the time, we weren’t sure exactly when to expect it to hit theatres. But with Magnet since setting the film’s release date for this summer, hitting VOD [...]
Jackie Chan Updates on his role in The Expendables 3, and a New Film Series with Chris Tucker
Jackie Chan has indicated that he will star in The Expendables 3 if he can make his schedule work. In an interview with Getty Images Entertainment at the Cannes Film Festival, the martial arts legend confirmed that Sylvester Stallone’s tweets about his possible involvement in the threequel are not far off the mark. I would [...]
Reviews
Epic Review
Rivalling DreamWorks and Pixar animation studios is certainly no easy task, but Blue Sky Studios are triumphantly getting along with things, consistently making a profit on their reasonable back catalogue. Boasting the likes of Rio and the popular Ice Age franchise, they now return with Chris Wedge’s Epic, an adventure in the Honey, I Shrunk [...]
Cannes 2013: La Danza de la Realidad Review
Jodorowsky returns with his first feature film in over twenty years – his last being the rather disappointing and atypical The Rainbow Thief – the bewitching La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance of Reality). An adaptation of his autobiographical book of the same name La Danza de la Realidad is obviously a deeply personal [...]
Cannes 2013: Jeune & Jolie Review
François Ozon, the former enfant terrible of French Cinema, returns after his career best In the House with a rather sedate, even if it is occasionally mildly provocative, character study into the sexual awakening of a seventeen year-old girl. Isabelle, the girl in question, is played by Marine Vacth, an actress for who this will [...]
Cannes 2013: Heli Review
A depressing insight into a poor family in Mexico makes for uneasy if occasionally powerful viewing in Heli, Amat Escalante’s third feature following Sangre in 2005 and Los bastardos in 2008. Heli is named after its central character, a poor young man who works at a local Japanese Automobile factory and lives with his partner, [...]
Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring Review
Based on real events and inspired by an article in Vanity Fair, Sofia Coppola’s latest directorial turn concerns itself with those that emulate the kind of characters she has previously devoted whole films to; Dorff’s Johnny Marco in Somewhere, Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette and to a lesser extent Bill Murray’s Bob Harris in Lost [...]
The Great Gatsby Review
If possible, it’s important to distance yourself from the original F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of which this Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby is based upon, as although naturally sharing the same narrative as the 1925 masterpiece, comparisons are somewhat futile, as this is so much more a lavish, typically grandiose Luhrmann production, than [...]
The Liability Review
It seems cameraman-cum-director Craig Viveiros fancies himself as a bit of a ‘British Tarantino’ with his second feature, The Liability. He even employs the services of one of Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs’ actors, Tim Roth, to evoke that clever magic. Indeed, at the heart of this road movie is a more superior, darkly comedic [...]
Fast & Furious 6 Review
Like the characters in the franchise, director Justin Lin reassembles his trustworthy team of writers Chris Morgan and Gary Scott Thompson to pen another episode of the adrenaline-pumping, big-action smashing and testosterone-dripping Fast & Furious mayhem that throws reality and caution to the wind in Version 6. Rio’s favelas played host last time in 2011 [...]
Features
Six of the Best Tarantino Scenes
The films of Quentin Tarantino offer many potential choices when you’re compiling a collection with the title you see above. The obvious choices spring gleefully to mind: the countless bodies falling at the sword of The Bride in the slaughter of The Crazy 88, the final stand off between Mr White, Nice Guy Eddie and [...]
Six Of The Best: Clint Eastwood Acting Performances
Having already looked at Clint Eastwood’s prodigious output as a director, with genuinely top drawer work spread across the past forty years, it seems like a good time to look at his work as an actor too as his latest film, Trouble with the Curve, is out on DVD now. After his first significant big [...]
Film Geeks at the Theatre: The Hot House by Harold Pinter
Earlier this week we launched our Film Geeks at the Theatre strand on the site. As the title suggests, it’s a(n irregular) series of articles that look at theatre through the eyes of those of us who only, really know movies. It seems only appropriate to follow this up with a review of The Hot [...]
Rear View Mirror: A Journey Through The Fast and the Furious Series So Far…
Truth be told, up until very recently, not only had I not seen a single The Fast and the Furious movie, I wasn’t really in any great rush to do so either. I’d heard from various sources that the first outing was an over the top piece of guilty fun, but after that they all [...]
10 Superheroes Who Could Join the Team in The Avengers 2
The roster of The Avengers is already pretty crowded (after all, they DO have a Hulk…), but it would be a massive shame if Joss Whedon and Marvel Studios didn’t take the opportunity to introduce some new members to the team of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the sequel which is currently set for release on [...]
Interviews
The HeyUGuys Interview: Amanda Seyfried talks Epic, Seth MacFarlane and Her Dream Role
Amanda Seyfried is clearly a standout in the realm of young leading ladies with huge roles in films like LES MISERABLES, MAMMA MIA!, and JENNIFER’S BODY. We got a chance to sit down with her as part of our coverage of Fox’s new animated film, EPIC. Seyfried plays MK, a young girl who goes off [...]
Cannes 2013: Donnie Yen Interview – Iceman Cometh, A Sequel and Turning Down The Expendables
With thirty years working in film and a number of highly successful martial arts movies under his belt Donnie Yen has been at various times an actor, director, producer, action choreographer and even medal winning martial artist. Yen was in Cannes to promote his upcoming film Iceman Cometh 3D and I was lucky enough to [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Composer Lucas Vidal Talks Fast and Furious 6
The last time we spoke to Spanish Composer Lucas Vidal he’d just finished working on the Henry Cavill / Bruce Willis movie The Cold Light of Day and John Cusack’s Edgar Allen Poe film The Raven but now the up and coming composer has been given the biggest film of his career in the form [...]
Interviews from the Arrested Development Season 4 Netflix Premiere
This evening London’s Leicester Square played host to the premiere of a TV show that has been off-air for 7 years but one that we and many others have wanted to see return. That show is of course Arrested Development. Many of the shows favourites including Alia Shawkat, Michael Cera, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor and [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Jeff Nichols talks Mud
Coming to our attentions with the absorbing psychological drama Take Shelter, director Jeff Nichols now returns with his latest picture, this time depicting first love and relationships through the eyes of a teenage boy. In what is a truly inspiring piece of cinema, we had the good fortune of sitting down with Jeff to discuss his latest [...]
The HeyUGuys Interview: Tobias Lindholm discusses A Hijacking
In what is undoubtedly one of our favourite films this year so far, A Hijacking marks yet another wonderful film to come out of Denmark, and we had the pleasure of speaking to the director Tobias Lindholm ahead of the film’s release. Lindholm, who also wrote The Hunt, last year – is the second person [...]
