Damian Jones and Noel Clarke to Take on Fast Girls
Currently making noise in Berlin for his female gang bank heist thriller 4.3.2.1 Noel Clarke, star of Kidulthood and director of its sequel Adulthood is currently developing another female fronted drama, this time set around the 2012 Olympics.
Clarke is to team again with Producer Damian Jones, whose previous work includes both the ‘hood films as [...]
Disaster Movies: Death, Destruction, Mayhem!
What is it about total carnage that sends people to the theater in droves? I’m totally guilty of this as well, but I’m wondering what exactly it is about disaster movies that make them so awesome (and by “awesome” I mean, totally cheesy, silly fun).
Disaster movies while not high quality, will normally have really good [...]
Friday Fun: 50 Movies, 1 Awesome Trailer
While perusing around YouTube I came across this trailer by a guy called “vadoskincheg”. It’s three minutes of pure awesomeness. He created a mash up of 50 movies and cut it together to make a one trailer. Using clips from all sorts of different films like Sherlock Holmes, Terminator Salvation, New Moon, The Day the [...]
Are Movie Review Ratings Outdated?
Last week i wrote an article questioning why movies with low average review ratings, like New Moon, break box office records regardless. It got me thinking about the whole concept of rating a movie, and whether ‘marks out of ten’ was really still a useful film criticism tool.
Here at HUG, like many modern movie blogs, [...]
2009 – The Year Good Filmmaking Died?
A week ago, The Twilight Saga: New Moon opened in theatres all over the world. Based on the best selling book of the same name, and sequel to a popular and lucrative first movie, it was always going to open big. What in fact happened, was that it registered the third highest US movie opening [...]
2012’s Box Office Success Marks The End of the World
Disaster struck at the box office this weekend, again and again.
Roland Emmerich’s CG-heavy apocalypse movie 2012 starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet had a huge opening weekend in the US and abroad, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Balancing its $200 million budget with its US earnings of $65 million and the foreign box office of $160 [...]
Featurette: 2012 Volcanic Eruption
To coincide with the release of Roland Emmerich’s 2012, which is in UK cinemas NOW, Columbia Pictures have released a new featurette based around the volcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park. I’ve embedded the featurette below or head over to Yahoo to view in HD.
2012 stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt and Thandie [...]
Review: 2012
2012 is one of those strange movies where you feel like you shouldn’t like it but cant help yourself enjoying and even sometimes laughing at the world’s destruction, either because of it’s slightly cheesy and humorous script or because the effects are so darn good that it just looks fantastic.
If you’ve not been following the [...]
Preview: 2012
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying Independence Day was a big movie, with a place in cinematic history. Roland Emmerich has been the prince of diminishing returns since, but remains the current king of the global disaster movie. With next week’s 2012, he’s hoping to get his career back on track.
10,000 BC was [...]
Competition: Win a 2012 Poster
To celebrate the release of Roland Emmerich’s 2012 next Friday (13th November), Columbia Pictures have given us 10 posters to give away. All the posters will look like the image to the left (click to enlarge) and will look great on any wall!
To be in with a chance of winning, all you need [...]
