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Skyfall Heading to IMAX Cinemas

Here’s some rather terrific news for fans of super huge screen cinemas that are IMAX! IMAX.com have announced the news that Skyfall (aka James Bond 23) will be the first 007 movie to hit IMAX screens when it’s released on October 26th. I’ve placed then full press release from PR NewsWire via our pals at [...]

Rampart Gets a Lovely Retro Poster

Here’s a lovey new poster courtesy of the chaps at Digital Spy for Studio Canal’s new movie starring Woody Harrelson’s as ‘Rampart’. We’ve seen the movie and loved it – check out Adam’s review here. Rampart is released tomorrow, 24th February. Rampart stars Woody Harrelson, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon, [...]

New Featurette Looks at the Making of Universal’s $400m Epic ‘Battleship’

Here’s a rather great 4 minute featurette looking at the making of Universal Studios’ new movie, Battleship. It focuses around Director Peter Berg and has snippets of interviews, behind the scenes footage and stories from Berg on on how the movie was mad and the challenges they had to face. Berg talks about the difficulty [...]

New Trailer for ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ Parodies The Artist

We’re just a few days away from the 84th Academy Awards, and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist is of course a big contender and expected to do very well on Sunday night. A brand new trailer for Ice Age: Continental Drift has surfaced that parodies Hazanavicius’ silent film, and as you can imagine, it’s pretty great, [...]

Top Ten Movie Moments Recreated in Lego

This is very cool video to start the day with, and it continues the trend of mixing movies and Lego, something we’ve seen a lot recently with The Lord of the Rings and The Avengers editions and we hope to have some more movie related Lego stuff coming up soon on HeyUGuys. Lego conducted a [...]

Agent Vinod’s 2nd Trailer Ramps up the Action, One Liners and a topless Saif Ali Khan

Illuminati Films is going all out to ensure Agent Vinod, the forthcoming and long in the making spy thriller starring (real life couple) Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor is a massive success! After the first trailer took us all by surprise as delayed productions in Bollywood usually tend to feel a bit stale especially [...]

New Trailer (Clip) and Poster for Pixar’s Brave

It’s good to see Pixar ditching the sequels and channeling their talents into an original tale and despite an initial reluctance what I’m seeing is winning me over slowly. There’s a new poster and trailer online today which is certainly eye-catching and features a bow-slinging Princess Merida, voiced by Kelly Macdonald with Emma Thompson, Billy [...]

A Handful of Great New Clips from Wanderlust with Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd

Led by the brilliant pairing of Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, we’ve seen some excellent things from Wanderlust so far, most recently including a new red-band trailer for the film last week. Directed by David Wain and co-written by Wain and Ken Marino, the team that brought us Role Models, the film’s supporting cast includes [...]

New Trailer for American Reunion (American Pie 4)

Here’s another new trailer for Universal Studios’ new movie American Reunion which sees all the cast of the original American Pie movies back together again for another outing of craziness and siliness. Have a watch of the trailer which I’ve emebedded below. The cast includes Jason Biggs, Tara Reid, Alyson Hannigan, Katrina Bowden, Seann William [...]

Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Attend the Oscars as The Dictator

Never one to shy away from controversy, Sacha Baron Cohen now wants to take the game of using awards shows to have fun and promote his movies to a whole new level by going to this weekend’s Academy Awards dressed as the titular figure of his upcoming movie, The Dictator. The Cambridge-educated British actor, already [...]

Lovely First US Trailer and Poster for Delicacy with Audrey Tautou

Along with Marion Cotillard, Audrey Tautou is of course one of the best known French actresses internationally, and her films are always a safe bet to be wonderful. Her latest film, La Délicatesse, was released in France at the end of last year, and will be coming to the UK and US in April and [...]

Watch Jodie Whittaker in Short Film Smoke

We’re always looking out for interesting shorts from UK directors and this new film from Gabriel Bisset-Smith is well worth a watch. Smoke has a simple concept and it’s very well executed with the editing in particular making this love story in reverse something special. The script by Stuart Curran won a competition on circalit.com, [...]

New Men in Black 3 Poster features 3 Men in Black

Ok. This isn’t the most impressive poster you’ll see in your life, but it does its job well enough.Thus you’ll know that MIB Cubed with be out in May of this year IN 3D. Twitterer RIMMK7 (via Coming Soon) released this one to the world and surely an official release in a higher res is [...]

Awesome New IMAX Poster for John Carter

We’re only a few weeks away now from the release of Disney’s John Carter, an epic blockbuster that looks to be pretty grand in scale, and the ad campaign has been gearing up over the last few weeks and months nicely. To add to all we’ve seen so far, we now have a brilliant new [...]

First Trailer Debuts for The Trouble with Bliss with Dexter’s Michael C. Hall

It’s not often that fans of Michael C. Hall get to see him outside of Dexter. This year will see the Golden Globe-winning actor leading The Trouble with Bliss juggling two relationships between the young Brie Larson and his neighbour in Lucy Liu. The first trailer for the film has now debuted over at Apple, [...]

How to get Nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in Five Easy Steps

The Best Picture accolade at the Academy Awards if probably the most vaunted, talked about, and prestigious prizes in the world of film. This reputation is impressive given that not a year goes by when the choice for nominations, and sometimes even the winner, are at best baffling and at worst completely inexplicable. Here I’ll [...]

The UK Box-Office – The Woman in Black sits atop the Half Term Haul

It’s the tail end of half-term and The Woman in Black and The Muppets have cleaned up for the second week in a row. The weekend has also thrown up a terrible selection of new releases with only one smashing its way into the currently robust top 10. Not surprising considering the strong releases of [...]

The Games Begin: Two New TV Spots for The Hunger Games Appear

There’s not too long to wait until Lionsgate’s Next Big Thing enters our cinemas and the whole world watches as The Hunger Games rides roughshod over the competition, so in order to leave no appetite unwhet there are two new TV spot online this morning. As you’d expect these new spots don’t give too much [...]

BOND VIDEOBLOG: Go Behind the Scenes of Skyfall with Sam Mendes

Posting at the appropriate time of 7.00am this morning the team behind the latest James Bond film are allowing us to peep behind the curtain and take a look at the film’s production, which is jolly decent of them. Taking a leaf out of Peter Jackson’s book (in the most recent case The Hobbit) director [...]

New Battleship Trailer Proves it is the Ultimate Movie Mash-up

Ok, so this new trailer for Peter Berg’s Battleship sets the scene pretty clear.. City destroying metal whirwind (Transformers) + Sexy women in love with Square-Jaw who works for the Overprotective Father (Armageddon) + Liam Neeson as he was in Taken (Taken) = Battleship. I have no problem with any of this as long as [...]

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The Adopted – Review

Mélanie Laurent, known up to now as that-girl-from-Inglourious Basterds, makes her directorial debut with The Adopted (Les Adoptés), a story of the ties that bind us in life and love. While it might not be breaking any moulds any time soon, The Adopted is a generally promising if occasionally flawed feature-length debut from first-time director [...]

GFF 2012: Babycall Review

Anna (Noomi Rapace) and her eight year old son, Anders (Velte Qvenild Werring), are moved to a modest apartment block on the outskirts of Oslo as part of the witness protection program. Scared to death by the violent past she’s escaped, Anna takes no risks with Anders, protecting him from all elements, even the draft. [...]

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu Upodcast Review

February seems to be romantic comedy season all around so how can Bollywood escape the trend packing up to 5-6 releases, with the first to kick off Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu starring the ever- radiant Kareena Kapoor and Bollywood’s blue-eyed man boy Imran Khan. Set in Vegas but the Dharma made it clear that [...]

Ben and Holly’s Triple Pack Review

One of the most popular and recognizable animated television shows currently airing, Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom is another great creation from Mark Baker and Neville Astley, the creators behind the iconic Peppa Pig. Earning many awards (including a BAFTA) and enjoying so much praise from children and families, the series has been given some [...]

The Front Line Blu-ray Review

The Film Dispatched to the front line of the Korean civil war in January 1953, Kang Eun-pyo (Shin Ha-kyun) is on a mission to investigate the suspicious death of an officer and hunt out a potential communist spy. But as he begins to fight alongside the ‘Alligator’ unit his perception of the war and the [...]

Rampart Review

Police corruption of the highest order is on the cards in director Oren Moverman’s follow-up to his much-praised 2009 feature, The Messenger, which once again presents another riveting and eminently watchable turn from his star of that previous film, Woody Harrelson. The actor is cast here as Dave ‘Date Rape’ Brown, a gleefully un-PC and [...]

Berlinale 2012 – Francine Review

Melissa Leo is the eponymous anti-hero in this disarming look at North America’s dispossessed. Written by Georgie Hobbs Francine’s first shot shows Leo stark naked, showering in prison. It’s her last day in detention before she’s released back into the world. It’s a staggeringly brave image – in a film which offers a series of [...]

Ozu: The Student Comedies DVD Review

Thanks to the British Film Institute the availability of Ozu’s films is at a level now that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Their commitment to his work, releasing a large number on Blu-ray, is currently second to none with Criterion in America even lagging behind somewhat. Joining this sizeable collection of releases, which will eventually include all [...]

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Blu-ray Review

A magnificent and ancient house is bought up for redevelopment by a young couple hoping to sell it along and make their fortune. The couple arrive at the house with the father’s young daughter struggling to come to terms with her new step mother and their spooky new abode, and then there’s the whispering coming [...]

GFF 2012: Natural Selection Review

Loyal Christian housewife Linda (Rachael Harris) enters into panic mode when her husband, Peter (Jon Gries), suffers a stroke. Discovering that he’s been donating sperm in secret, she sets off to find his eldest “son”, Raymond (Matt O’Leary), a foul-mouthed ex-con. Realising she’s worlds apart from Raymond in terms of beliefs and values, Linda has a mammoth [...]

GFF 2012: The Kid with a Bike Review

Disregarded by his father (Jérémie Renier) for no apparent reason, Cyril (Thomas Doret) longs for a normal childhood and to escape the children’s home he’s been placed in. He sees a new opportunity when he happens upon friendly mother figure Samantha (Cécilie De France), who agrees to take care of him on weekends, but his turbulent [...]

Bounty Hunters – DVD Review

Jules (7-time WWE champion Trish Stratus) is a member of a three-person bounty hunter crew who chance upon an informant one night who is worth $100,000 if they hand him in, but $1,000,000 if they hand him over to the mob boss who is after him. Feelings of moral conflict ensue, along with lots of [...]

Miss Bala – DVD Review

After agreeing to go along with her friend to a try-out for a beauty pageant, Laura (Stephanie Sigman) then finds herself at a club upon which a Mexican gang descends. Several people wind up dead and Laura finds herself co-opted into the gang, being drawn further and further into Mexico’s criminal underworld. ***** Critically lauded [...]

GFF 2012: Trishna Review

While in India managing a hotel, Jay (Riz Ahmed) meets Trishna (Freida Pinto), a soft-spoken, hard-working young woman living in one of the country’s poorest areas. In a bid to spend more time with her, and improve her situation, Jay invites Trishna to work at his hotel. As they spend more and more time together, their feelings [...]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D Review

Admitting to enjoying a Nic Cage film always feels like a guilty pleasure when there is often plenty to be entertained by the man himself on screen, regardless of how incredulous the story his character resides in is. In fact after the lukewarm response to the first Ghost Rider film, there is nothing to lose [...]

The Well Digger’s Daughter – DVD Review

Pascal Amoretti (Daniel Auteuil) is a simple rural well-digger, trying to raise his five daughters on his own during pre-WWII France after his wife passed away. His eldest daughter Patricia (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) was raised at a convent in Paris but has returned to the town of Salon to help her father. One day she meets [...]

Warrior – Bluray Review

Brendan (Joel Edgerton) is in trouble. Between them, he and his wife are holding down three jobs in an effort to stay afloat, but the bank are going to foreclose on his mortgage in 90 days unless he can come up with serious cash. He refuses to allow this to happen and so gets back [...]

GFF 2012: Your Sister’s Sister Review

Unable to recover from the untimely death of his brother, Jack (Mark Duplass) is sent to a picturesque cabin on a tiny island by best friend Iris (Emily Blunt). Arriving at the cabin, Jack runs into Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt), Iris’ half-sister, who’s taken shelter there after running out on a seven-year-long relationship. Nursing their respective [...]

Ben Hur – DVD Review

It is the early part of the first century AD and Rome occupies Judea. Judah Ben-Hur, a young Jewish man has been friends with Messala, a Roman and the son of a powerful Senator, since they were boys. On the day that Messala rides back into Jerusalem with the newly appointed governor Pontius Pilate, an [...]

GFF 2012: The Raid Review

Hollywood action films are increasingly becoming paint-by-numbers fare with uninteresting characters and unbelievable scenarios. The Raid, Welsh born writer and director Gareth Evans’ third feature film, hits hard due to its no-holds-barred coercion, unfaltering intensity and desire to do what most action films don’t: surprise its audience from the opening moments to the final fade [...]