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Mild-mannered civilian by day, passionate cinephile and dedicated blogger at night, my obsession began with seeing the image of Luke staring wistfully at the twin moons of Alderaan, and 30-plus years later, that love have never wavered.
Adam Hamdy (second from left) is a 37-year-old filmmaker who gave up a lucrative business career to concentrate on his life-long passion of working within the comic book world, publishing his first work (entitled The Hunter) in 2007. Last year he made a move into directing with Pulp – a fun crime caper which revolves [...]
The Amazing Spider-Man is still a good six months from our cinema screens but tonight we were invited to a very special peek at the film’s new trailer, followed by a tantalising sizzle reel. That wasn’t the only surprise of the night, as key figures from this new take on the iconic webslinger were present [...]
The concert film can be an odd cinematic experience. It’s a genre which places the viewer in the position of comfortable, passive observer when in reality, what’s really being presented is an atmosphere offering the complete opposite, willing its audience to contribute in as lively and exuberant manner as possible. The Chemical Brothers Don’t Think [...]
First released in German cinemas way back in 2005, Before the Fall (aka Napola) is an impressive coming of age tale which looks at the trials and tribulations of its young protagonist whose fall from innocence is as brutal and hard-hitting as they come, and in the worse kind of environment. It’s 1942 and young [...]
Some of you will be able to cast your minds back to the time when BBC2 first played host to the interplanetary adventures of an all-new cast of Starfleet officers, still obsessed with that quest to boldly go to the places man has yet to tread. Star Trek: The Next Generation was a genuine TV [...]
Following the potentially game-changing Up in the Air, director Jason Reitman (admirably) returns to a smaller, indie-flavoured milieu, re-teaming with his Juno scribe Diablo Cody to bring another highly memorable female character to life, and in the process, managing to create his strongest work to date. We first catch thirty-something divorcee Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) [...]
A high school movie with a difference, Stay Cool offers both a contemporary and nostalgic glimpse into those formative years when a best-selling author Henry (Mark Polish) is invited back to his old school to deliver a speech at the upcoming senior graduation. Now in his mid-thirties, his latest book is based around his own [...]
Author Kaui Hart Hemming has seen her highly-praised debut novel The Descendants turned into an equally celebrated (and now potential multiple Oscar-winning) Hollywood picture. The story of a workaholic father in Hawaii who is forced to take the emotional reins following a tragic incident in his family, the material was powerful enough to coax Sideways [...]
Director Alexander Payne returns to the big screen (after an almost eight-year absence) with a somewhat unexpectedly gentle comedy-drama which is free from the biting satire and humorous cynicism which characterised his earlier work, and offers his most heart-felt feature to date. George Clooney is Matt King, a work-obsessed lawyer from a prominent and successful [...]
The ever-prolific Clint Eastwood (this is his eleventh directorial feature since 2000) returns with the absorbing, if flawed, (mildly) revisionist take on the personal life of an equally revered and feared historical US figure. Tracing J. Edgar Hoover’s meteoric rise through the Justice Department and the Bureau of Investigation, to his leading role in establishing [...]
Another Shakespearian text receives the contemporary treatment (albeit via one of his lesser-known plays) with Bard veteran Ralph Fiennes making his directorial debut alongside ably filling the central role of proud and defiant general, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus. The ruler of Rome (portrayed here as a faceless English city), Coriolanus is a fierce, unrepentant soldier whose [...]
Welcome to our new regular section in which members of the HeyUGuys family discuss a variety of topics concerning all things cinema. We’ll pick a topic inspired by what’s happening in the world of film and invite our writers to voice their opinions, an invitation we extend to you. If you want to submit your [...]
Don Cheadle has been trying to get his biopic of jazz legend Miles Davies off the ground for a long time now, but with a director announced late last year (Notorious helmer George Tillman Jr.) he’s finally on-track, although it’s safe to say this isn’t going to be a conventional life story. Talking about the [...]
Surprisingly violent and often very funny, Goon is an underdog sporting tale with a difference, and featuring a career best performance from Seann William Scott, it’s well worth getting your skates on and heading out to see it on the big screen. The man who is still chiefly known as Stifler, the shirt-chasing horndog from [...]
The big screen look into the troubled life of 70’s porn superstar Linda Lovelace now has a number of venerable character actors onboard. Robert Patrick, Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale and Chris Noth have joined the production, which stars Amanda Seyfried in the lead role and Peter Sarsgaard as her violent, manipulative husband. Like Walk the [...]
Welcome to our new regular section in which members of the HeyUGuys family discuss a variety of topics concerning all things cinema. We’ll pick a topic inspired by what’s happening in the world of film and invite our writers to voice their opinions, an invitation we extend to you. If you want to submit your [...]
Having recently enthralled many film fans on TV with his exhaustive 15-part look into the history of cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, documentarian and cinematic scholar Mark Cousins travels to a remote Iraqi village of Goptapa (population 700) to engage with and enlighten the area’s impoverished children in The First Movie. Visiting an [...]
‘Tis the season to wreck havoc. Joe Dante’s 1984 tale of that loveable and unique Christmas gift which turns out to be more trouble than he’s worth is now a firm festive favourite, and similar to Die Hard, it has earned a loving place on that list whilst using the holidays ostensibly as a hook [...]
Hanna’s teen assassin Saoirse Ronan is a busy actress at the moment. The 17-year-old is headlining both the adaptation of Twilight novelist Stephenie Meyer’s The Host and Neil Jordan’s trip back to vampiredom, Byzantium. Variety is reporting that she’s also signed on to star in fantasy wartime drama, How I Live Now. She’ll play the [...]
Just when you thought every variation on the Christmas-themed film had been attempted, along comes another (in glorious 3D, no less) which manages to make you simultaneously warm, festive and repulsed. This third instalment finds our two lead characters somewhat estranged from each other, due to their now divergent lifestyles. While Harold (John Cho) has [...]
