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Bong Joon-Ho, the acclaimed director responsible for The Host and Mother, will head the International Feature Film Competition Jury at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, it has been announced. Joon-Ho will be accompanied on the jury by actress Natalie Dormer (Captain America: The First Avenger) and leading film critic Siobhan Synnot. The trio will [...]
Sony Pictures Classics have debuted the first official poster for Blue Jasmine. Written and directed by Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris), the film stars Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg. Blue Jasmine tells the story of the life of a fashionable New York housewife (Blanchett) amidst [...]
Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) is in talks to star in Disney’s musical Into the Woods, Variety has learned. Blunt will appear opposite Johnny Depp (Alice in Wonderland), Meryl Streep (It’s Complicated), Chris Pine (Star Trek), Christine Baranski (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), James Cordon (The History Boys), and Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead) in the [...]
Continuing its long standing tradition of unveiling the latest Disney•Pixar titles weeks before their UK releases, this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival will play host to Monsters University. The film, which is a prequel to Monsters, Inc., will act as the festival’s Family Gala, and is scheduled to screen at the Festival Theatre on Sunday June [...]
Pedro Almodóvar, one of Spain’s most internationally acclaimed directors (he’s won two Academy Awards to date), returns to familiar territory with I’m So Excited, his first out-and-out comedy since Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was released some twenty three years ago. Gone are the somewhat sombre explorations of dark, labyrinthine subjects found [...]
The line-up for this year’s Dundead film festival has been announced. The festival, now in its third year, offers genre fans living in Dundee and the surrounding areas an opportunity to see a mixture of old and upcoming horror films at Dundee Contemporary Arts over a four day period, May 2 – 5, 2013. This [...]
Not Another Happy Ending has been chosen to close this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. The world’s longest continuously film festival, now in its 67th year, will play host to the Glasgow-set romantic comedy, where it will premiere as the closing night film on June 30. Directed by John McKay, Not Another Happy Ending stars [...]
Two weeks after the red band trailer debuted and FilmNation have released the first official poster for Only God Forgives, which bares the ominous tagline “Time To Meet The Devil”. Written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), Only God Forgives stars Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke, Vithaya Pansringarm and Gordon Brown. Bangkok. Ten years ago Julian (Gosling) [...]
Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim (Joel Edgerton) are desperate to be parents. However, when they’re told by their doctor that this won’t happen naturally, they decide to indulge their dreams one final time by burying a box in their back garden filled with all the personality traits their ideal child would bear – kind, honest [...]
Though G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was considered by many to be a complete and utter write-off, it also had a cartoonish and flippant sensibility that resulted in a decent box office haul, making its sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, inevitable. The sequel, however, which finds new director Jon M. Chu and screenwriters Rhett Reese [...]
Frank Khalfoun’s Maniac is a rare breed: a remake that’s arguably better than the original. That’s not to undermine William Lustig’s version which had to battle being swept under the carpet by the BBFC, rather that Khalfoun’s re-imagining – passed uncut, for the record – benefits somewhat from the timing in which it’s released, a bold [...]
Craig Zobel’s sophomore feature Compliance, based on the alarming reality of victimising prank calls, has built up a significant reputation since debuting at the Sundance Film Festival last year, not least due to its hard-hitting subject-matter and the significant protests that have befallen it; there were various reports of walk-outs and complaints were reported at [...]
Steven Soderbergh’s swan song (his Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra will air on HBO later this year) sees the esteemed director re-team with Contagion screenwriter Scott Z. Burns for a taut, artistic and unsettling psychological thriller set against the world of mental health. It is a place where abhorrent pharmaceutical industries are benefitting from modern [...]
Sleep Tight sees Spanish writer and director Jaume Balagueró step back into the stoplight without [REC] co-director Paco Plaze with a markedly different kind of horror film – one set to a slower pace and removed of all-out carnage. The result is a masterclass in suspense that’s likely to send shudders down its baying audiences’ spines [...]
Director Marc Isaac’s latest documentary The Road: A Story of Life and Death exposes the relatively unexplored lives of those immigrants who, having abandoned their homes in search of richer lives in London, now live along the A5, an old road that runs all the way from Marble Arch, London to Holyhead, Wales. Rather than [...]
Ellen Page is set to make her directorial debut with comedy-drama Miss Stevens. Boasting a script by Julia Hart (The Keeping Room), Miss Stevens centers on a teacher who, while on a chaotic weekend trip to a state drama competition, rediscovers her self-worth. Anna Faris, who currently stars in the abysmal Movie 43 and will shortly be filming [...]
Chilean writer and director Pablo Larraín’s thought-provoking and captivating No, which is loosely based on an unpublished play written by Antonio Skármeta, focuses on the media campaign that played a significant part in military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s downfall from Chilean rulership. It sharply brings to a close Larraín’s trilogy of Pinochet-centric films, which also includes [...]
Jennifer Aniston, Mark Duplass and Ben Kingsley have signed on to co-star in comedy-drama Convention. Convention, which is being shopped to possible buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin this week, is set to be directed by Justin Reardon and has been described as a “Charlie Kaufman-esque mind-bender”. The film centers on a mind-mannered [...]
Metrodome have released the official UK quad for twisted horror-thriller Maniac. Directed by Franck Khalfoun (P2), Maniac stars Elijah Wood (Sin City), Nora Arnezeder (Safe House), America Olivo (Friday the 13th), Megan Duffy (Little Athens), and Jan Broberg (Everwood). It’s a remake of the 1980s slasher film of the same name. Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer [...]
Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) and Bryan Cranston (Argo) are said to be in early talks to take on roles in Godzilla. The pair would star opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass) in the Legendary Pictures reboot, though official offers are unlikely to be made until Frank Darabont delivers a finished script. Gareth Edwards, who hit [...]