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Dave has been writing for HeyUGuys since mid-2010 and has found them to be the most intelligent, erudite and insightful bunch of film fans you could hope to work with. He's gone from ham-fisted attempts at writing the news to interviewing Lawrence Bender, Renny Harlin and Julian Glover, to writing articles about things he loves that people have actually read. He has fairly broad tastes as far as films are concerned, though given the choice he's likely to go for Con Air over Battleship Potemkin most days.
In the court of King Uther Pendragon, Merlin serves as a lowly servant to Prince Arthur, the heir of Camelot. Merlin is fated to be the mightiest wizard/sorcerer/warlock ever, but must keep his powers secret for the time being, for there is a great deal of suspicion regarding magic. His mentor Gaius (Richard Wilson) must [...]
Nathan (Taylor Lautner) is a relatively regular kid, about to finish high school, a bit of a thrill-seeker and seeing a therapist due to ill-defined anger management issues from his early teens. He is paired up with his friend and neighbour Karen (Lily Collins) for a school project, through which they find themselves scanning through [...]
How To Stop Being A Loser arrives on the small screen on Monday, 6th February. You can see what we thought of this at times laugh out loud funny British comedy here and indeed you can win yourself your own copy right here if you get your skates on. As part of our coverage of [...]
With Super Bowl Sunday fast approaching, it’s time to get a little NFL-centric. The Super Bowl is not just about splendid TV spots for upcoming cinema releases, there is a game to be played too. Many of us on this side of the North Atlantic rather look down our noses at American Football. Some dismiss [...]
Rosie lives in a lovely garden with Raggles the rabbit, Bluebird (the blue bird), Big Bear, cheeky Will, shy Holly and Oakley, the old oak tree. They enjoy adventures, get scared by strange noises, play pranks and solve problems and everyone always winds up happy. ***** Everything’s Rosie is the latest hit with the tots [...]
Rose is new to Brighton. She is leaving something relatively unpleasant (but not specifically explained) behind her and is seeking to create a new life for herself and although naturally shy, she manages to strike up conversations and burgeoning friendships with a pleasant mix of people – homeless Joe, barman Harry, half-naked housemate Kyle and [...]
In this age of super-saturation with film marketing, Prometheus has admirably bucked the trend. Of all of the teaser trailers launched lately, it has kept its cards closest to its chest, saved more surprises for us the humble viewers and succeeded in generating much more interest as a helpful by-product. Much of the response to [...]
If you don’t know what Friends With Kids is all about, check out this link for all you need to know. Are you back? Okay. The latest comedy featuring all those actors and actresses you’ve seen in loads of other comedies over the past few years will seemingly seek to portray and dissect the current [...]
Bobcat Goldthwait may not seem like the most likely candidate for a cutting satire on the state of contemporary America, given that many will only remember him for his nigh-on incomprehensible work as Zed in the Police Academy films. But, he has moved on since then and recently gave us the interesting and relatively unheralded [...]
Although Clint Eastwood seemed to have long since abandoned appearing in anyone’s films except his own (he last stepped in front of the camera for someone else back in 1993 for In the Line of Fire), that all looks set to change with “Trouble with the Curve”, a new film about an ageing baseball scout [...]
William Turnbull is a painter and sculptor, now approaching his 90th birthday, whose life and work is evaluated in this documentary by his son, Alex. Narration by Jude Law. ***** Documentaries have always had an important place in the world of film and although there are plenty of high quality examples of the genre going [...]
We all have films that we love dearly. Often it relates to how old we were when we first saw it, or some thematic elements that resonate with us. Obviously a certain amount of love for the 80′s in general and The Goonies in particular lies in the background of HeyUGuys, which makes news of [...]
For now, it is simply “Untitled Tom Cruise Sci-Fi Project” (or Joseph Kosinski Project, depends on how actor or director-centric you are). Previously it was Oblivion, or Horizons (both perfectly serviceable in my view, though perhaps a touch generic), but regardless of its name, it is moving ahead and female characters are being cast. The [...]
Following the death of his hugely wealthy father, Largo Winch returns from being “off the radar”, to take over his father’s business and then sell it in order to invest in a charitable foundation. But someone is not happy about this plan and Winch finds himself accused of crimes against humanity relating to the extermination [...]
With all of the summer’s big hitters gearing up for the home stretch of post-production, editing, looping, scoring and the like, we can expect a steady stream of stills, trailers, clips and so forth to issue out of the machine that is the Wood of Holly. Indeed, it is less than a month until Super [...]
This sort of thing can rapidly turn into a vanity project, so I will have to watch my step a little. Laudable as it is to try to bring to people’s attention some splendid films which they may not have seen, it can swiftly deteriorate into, “oh gosh, you haven’t seen Cube: Zero, what kind [...]
Matt Damon is undoubtedly an uncommonly accomplished man. An Oscar-winning writer (whatever you might make of the theories pertaining to William Goldman’s involvement with Good Will Hunting), a lauded actor, a very gifted impressionist and comedian and it looked like he was going to add “director” to that impressive list. Damon had his eye on [...]
They say that the cream always rises to the top and that seems to be the case for Tom Hardy. Having plied his trade in an inferior Star Trek sequel (Nemesis) and a left-of-mainstream biopic (Bronson) he is now picking up bigger and bigger profile roles. With an utterly impressive co-lead performance under his belt [...]
Neither superhero films nor found footage films can lay any great claim to novelty, but then as a wise man once said, there is nothing new under the sun and most any genre or story could be shown to be derivative to some degree. Whether Chronicle will bring enough freshness to grab and hold our [...]
Some may not be much in the mood for more Horrible Bosses, personally I quite enjoyed the film and wouldn’t mind more of the same. Well, not exactly the same, but you catch my drift. Where does it go next? More Horrible Bosses? Horribler Bosses? Horrible Bosses: Die More Horribly? Let us know what you [...]
