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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 19th Century Denmark, two sisters live in a quiet and isolated village with their aging father, a local pastor who leads a faithful congregation of believers. A couple of gentleman suitors pass through, but they are rebuffed as the father insists his daughters are essential to his work. Several decades later, their father has [...]
Clint Eastwood will have lost a few Brownie points for his bizarre and frankly ill-advised conversation with an empty chair at the Republican National Congress last autumn, but he is still much-adored Hollywood royalty – old and craggy, but still directing and acting to a phenomenally high standard and responsible as actor and/or director for [...]
Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) continues to work at tracking and capturing federal fugitives in the backwaters of Kentucky, with local crooks like Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) mixing it up with the enigmatic but dangerous Mr Limehouse (Mykelti Williamson) and Neal McDonough’s Robert Quarles arriving from Detroit, intent on getting a foothold in [...]
Oz The Great and Powerful is not far off now, hitting US & UK screens on 8th March. Considering what a sacred cow The Wizard of Oz is, this prequel by Sam Raimi (now putting really clear water between him and The Evil Dead) has remained remarkably free of flack from those, including me, who [...]
First of all, let’s debunk the myth that Oscar always gets it wrong. Of course there are wild differences of opinion out there over what is the Best Film™ of any given year. Plenty of people (though not me) think The Hurt Locker was wildly over-rated and something else (Avatar – really?) should have won. [...]
Jackie Peyton (The Sopranos’ Edie Falco) kicks off season 4 of this rightly award-winning show with her life spiralling out of control. Her years of painkiller misuse are finally catching up on her and she reluctantly checks into rehab, trying to keep this 28 day sojourn a secret from her hospital bosses, husband and children. [...]
Although Michael Mann’s most recent project as director was the sadly cut short TV drama Luck, it is clearly and rightly as a feature film director that he is best known and most highly regarded. His first decade as a director was devoted to shorts, documentaries and TV and although he remained committed to none-more-80′s [...]
Kill The Messenger has been rumbling away as a project for some time. It is based on the true story of a journalist who broke a story of the CIA arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and aiding the importing of cocaine into California. As the film’s title suggests, the reporter in question (Gary Webb at [...]
Comedy Westerns have a long and (generally) positive history. From James Garner’s Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter, through to Blazing Saddles the genre has been ripe for lampooning and although of course there have been a few bum notes, it is heartening to hear that Seth MacFarlane is looking to try his hand at the genre. [...]
Mixing the period and contemporary settings like his Interview with the Vampire (but with seemingly more time devoted this time around to the present day), Neil Jordan is back in the vampire sub-genre with Byzantium, a tale of a mother (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter (Saoirse Ronan) trying to get by, feed and not get [...]
This is perhaps as good a time as any to look at some of Hitch’s best work. Our esteemed Jon Lyus looked at some of his best scenes/set pieces (a list I had some issues with, but then these features are for nothing if not to stir the pot of debate a little) a few weeks [...]
Intensive “fracking” (when the earth is blasted apart to get at valuable minerals, oil etc in voids beneath the ground) opens up the ground around New Orleans and giant, mutant, albino spiders appear, intent on killing everyone they find. They turn out to also be able to shoot flames out of their mouths. An assortment [...]
At the risk of stating the obvious and redundant, there are a lot of directors out there and so this series could merrily run for years, but in the interests of avoiding modern-centricity (yes, it’s a word. I know it is because I thought of it just now) let’s tuck into the resumé of Howard [...]
Warm Bodies looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun. Sure, we have plenty of zombie-centric stuff out there (World War Z, TV’s Walking Dead) and there have been plentiful light-hearted takes on the shuffling undead too (Shaun, Zombieland), but if the trailers are anything to go by (and they seldom are these [...]
Not to be snobbish about it, but as a rule the acting performances in Christmas films tend not to be the strongest. There are of course exceptions (hence this feature), but often the appeal in these films lies in the warm glow of Christmas sentiment, or simple, uncomplicated comedy. Think young Culkin in Home Alone [...]
Chester “Ace” Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) emerges from prison, having served a stretch for offences that this intricately plotted drama takes its time to elucidate. He is collected by his long-term companion, driver and confidante Gus (Dennis Farina) and straight away starts to work towards a grand plan of revenge on the men who each had [...]
Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is a network weatherman, sent to the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover Groundhog Day, when a local groundhog emerges from hibernation to predict whether there will be six more weeks of winter. Caught out by a blizzard he had predicted would miss the town, Phil is forced to spend [...]
Rise of the Guardians, DreamWorks’ latest offering in the “finally managing to compete with Pixar” category, looks ace – funny, exciting and beautifully rendered. As with pretty much any high-profile release out there these days, there is a hyper-abundance of material in which you might immerse yourselves; you know, the usual teasers, trailers, clips and [...]
Venkatesh (Venkatesh Chavan) works cleaning rooms at a small hotel in Goa and tries to make a little extra on the side with his friend Jhangir (Jhangir Badshah) by selling cheap plastic bags to street traders. One day, Venkatesh sees a swimming pool within a walled and gated property and sets out to ingratiate himself with the owner, Nana (Nana [...]
There has been a fair amount written lately, often by stand-up comedians themselves, about the current state of play for UK comedy. With artists such as Michael McIntyre, Lee Evans, Eddie Izzard, Jason Manford, Peter Kay and the like selling out tours using some of the biggest arenas in the country, clearly stand-up comedy is [...]