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Written by Joe Pearce. Casting is one of the most important factors to get right when making a film; good actors saying bad lines can save a script (see Sir Ian McKellen in X-Men: The Last Stand); whereas bad actors working with a good script can come close to ruining a film completely (I refer [...]
In the January 1999 issue of Empire, the magazine’s big preview of the year only gives a cursory little box in the corner to The Matrix, one of the defining movies of that decade. And The Phantom Menace dominates it. That’s the problem with all the 2012 previews that have been cluttering the interwebs for [...]
Written by Hannah McCarthy Sitting down to a bit of New Year’s telly, I started to watch one of my mum’s favourite films, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and realised to my surprise that I’d never actually seen it before. I remembered some dancing and brightly coloured shirts, but that was about it. Watching it [...]
Written by Nick Goundry From ape leader Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes through lovable rogue Captain Haddock in Tintin, back to tragic halfling Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films; it’s been a good year for Andy Serkis. There’s a campaign afoot for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his role in [...]
Welcome to the second part of The Truffles – the HeyUGuys Movie Awards in which our team dole out an alternative set of awards to the great and good of this year’s cascade of movies. You can read Part 1 by clicking here and read on to see which cinematic heroes are hoisted high above [...]
In 2009 the ex Mr Madonna (otherwise known as Guy Ritchie) called upon the unlikely pairing of Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law to bring back to the screen two of crime fiction’s greatest heroes – Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The pair are up there amongst the most filmed literary characters, Holmes has been [...]
Jean Vigo’s first and only feature-length film, L’Atalante can often be found snuggled amongst critics’ best-of-all-time lists. A quiet, subtle, and brilliantly simple story of a loved-up but immature young couple, L’Atalante is a Breton-striped dream-like journey through love and loss on the canals of France. After a heavy-handed editing process that mutilated the 1934 [...]
Christmas is many things to many people; a time of happiness, a time of reflection, a time to be grateful for what you have. It is a time for a veritable barrage of films which literally cut-and-paste the same plot elements every. single. year. Now, I have absolutely no problem with Christmas, and I like [...]
For a director as venerable as Martin Scorsese, arguably the greatest living filmmaker, pinpointing one of his cinematic masterpieces as his best will always be essentially impossible. Having covered such a wide range of genres over his career, there will never be a definitive consensus, however his 1990 film GoodFellas presents possibly the most compelling [...]
No-one’s contesting that Jean-Pierre Améris’ Romantics Anonymous is anything but undeniable fluff. The film follows a tentative romance between two cripplingly shy chocolate-lovers as they struggle to overcome their inhibitions and fall in love. But while Romantics Anonymous might be as light and sweet as a soufflé, it is never overly saccharine. This is a [...]
In 2005, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer were an unlikely pair to be headlining a film together. Downey Jr. was in the early stages of his comeback from years struggling with drug addiction, and Kilmer’s casting as a camp private eye seemed at odds with his reputation as a difficult and intense presence on [...]
Rumours have been flying about for years as to who is set to star in the US remake of Park Chan-wook’s master class in revenge thrillers, Oldboy. Along with director Spike Lee, Josh Brolin and Christian Bale are the latest names dangling from the proverbial grapevine. And while this might be an improvement on that [...]
As you will be all too aware yesterday saw the UK premiere of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 hit a very busy Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford. We were of course down there getting the low down but before all the excitement and hype of the red carpet HeyUGuys met up with one of [...]
In recent years there have been a number of highly original and intelligent depictions of modern warfare – The Hurt Locker (2009) and Green Zone (2010) to name but two. These films help give us a greater sense of what it’s actually like to experience the day-to-day life of conflict, which is never simply shoot-out [...]
While down at the Breaking Dawn Part 1 premiere at Stratford Westfield this evening we caught up with two men who know probably more about the film than anyone else, director Bill Condon and producer of all five Twilight films, Wyck Godfrey. They took the time out to talk us through the challenges they faced [...]
Tonight HeyUGuys and thousands of Twihards hit the red carpet at the UK premiere of Breaking Dawn Part 1. While down there we managed to catch up with the power three, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner as well as the latest member of the Twilight family and Kill List actress, MyAnna Buring. Check [...]
*** This review contains some spoilers*** As any Twilight fan will know Breaking Dawn, the last book in Stephenie Meyer’s ultra successful franchise, is where it all gets a bit more grown up. Gone are the days of poignant stares, teen melodrama and jealousy ridden love triangles and in is the serious stuff. The bits [...]
To round off our coverage of the 55th BFI London Film Festival were taking a look back at one of the most prominent strands of the festival – the French Revolutions programme. One of the festival’s chief pledges is to bring the best of the world’s cinema to London and Jack Jones leads us through [...]
HeyUGuys is very proud to be partnering with Cinémoi for our coverage of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. Luc Besson’s The Lady closed the festival and Julien Planté brings us his review. “Freedom from fear”. Everything is there. This is the title of Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech in 1990 and the story of Luc [...]
HeyUGuys is very proud to be partnering with Cinémoi for our coverage of the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black Gold had its world premiere at the festival and Julien Planté brings us his review. ————– Rather prophetically, Black Gold opens with the line “Tears are a waste of water”; a great quote for [...]
