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The Croods Review

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Although The Croods has come from the immensely intelligent and creative minds of screenwriters Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco – with the former boasting the likes of Aladdin, The Lion King and more recently How to Train Your Dragon amongst his impressive repertoire – unfortunately this prehistoric road movie is not quite of the [...]




The BAFTA Winners List Announced

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The ceremony is over here in London, bringing together some of the finest and most talented people in the film industry under the same roof for one night. The BAFTAs are this country’s highest honour in film, and they have handed out their awards for the 66th time to those whom they deem the most [...]




Oscars: 75 Songs vie for Best Original Song led by Les Misérables, Ted & Safety Not Guaranteed

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The Oscars are almost upon us, and the past few weeks have treated us to the shortlists competing in a number of categories, including Best Animated Feature, Best Visual Effects, Best Documentary, and Best Original Score. With the nominations announcement creeping ever closer at the start of next month, the Academy have now announced a [...]




21 Films Submitted for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars

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This year will mark the twelfth year that the Academy Awards have featured the Best Animated Feature category, and now the full list of submissions has been released, totalling twenty-one for this year’s entries for consideration. Last year, Gore Verbinski’s Rango took home the Oscar, fighting off competition in the form of A Cat in [...]




The HeyUGuys Cinema Release Round-up: 17th August

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Blockbuster season may be drawing slowly to a close but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still a couple of big hitters out there hoping to make a dent in the Box Office chart. In the meantime, The Dark Knight Rises continue to rake in the coins and it still looks set to match and possibly [...]




BRAVE Interview – Mark Andrews and Katherine Sarafian talk Brave, DreamWorks and The Good Dinosaur

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Having just arrived the night before, co-director Mark Andrews and producer Katherine Sarafian were on the final leg of their press commitments after showing their new film, Pixar’s Brave, off to receptive audiences in France, Italy, Japan and Canada. In production since 2004, when the idea was first pitched by original director Brenda Chapman, the [...]




BRAVE Interview: Robbie Coltrane and Kevin McKidd talk accents, profanity and spears in the eye

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Back in June, as the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival was coming to a close, HeyUGuys sat down with two of the stars of the festival’s highly anticipated closing film, Pixar’s Brave. In a quiet conference room on the second floor of Edinburgh’s grand Balmoral Hotel, Robbie Coltrane and Kevin McKidd – who play Lord [...]




How The Edinburgh International Film Festival Got Its Groove Back

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With the Edinburgh International Film Festival over for another year, it’s time to look back over the ten day event through rose coloured spectacles and assess whether or not the world’s longest continuously running film festival has managed to, under the leadership of a new Artistic Director and a brand new roster of some 121 feature films, make a [...]




Surrounded by Myth and Magic: The 3D Sound of Pixar’s Brave

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Pixar’s latest charm offensive has been dancing under the shower of critical praise received at the recent Edinburgh Film Festival and though we here in the UK have an unduly irritating amount of time to wait until Brave hits our cinemas there’s a new video out today which will have to tide us over until [...]




Pixar Goes to Scotland – New Featurette for Pixar’s Brave

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Pixar’s latest animated feature, Brave, opened this weekend in the US and, as expected, it topped the box office – as if we had any doubts that it would. The film has been getting brilliant reviews, and after catching it at the Edinburgh International Film Festival earlier this month, Jamie pegged it as the best [...]




Second International Trailer for Pixar’s Brave is the Best Yet

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If you haven’t fallen redhead over heels in wild anticipatory love for Pixar’s next then let this wonderful new trailer for Brave seduce you into a quivering mess. Kelly MacDonald lends her voice to Merida, the princess of Billy Connolly’s King and Emma Thompson’s Queen, and Emeryville’s finest have created a visually stunning world in [...]




Pixar’s Brave gets a New Clip with the Triplets & Summer Games Parody Commerical

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The first reviews for Pixar’s Brave are out, and they are looking very good. Jamie caught the film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival – you can read his review here – and has it pegged as the best animated film of the year, which is all I need to know. You had me at [...]




Brave Review

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Merida (Kelly Macdonald), a versed archer and princess to King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), lives a stable, yet somewhat imprisoned life within her family’s kingdom of DunBroch. When she becomes older and more free-spirited, she inadvertently defies an ancient custom her mother forces upon her. Finding herself banished due to her [...]




EIFF 2012 – Direct from the Filmhouse

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Ahead of the festival’s June 20th launch, Chief Executive Ken Hay and Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara today announced the 2012 EIFF’s full selection of shorts, feature films and documentaries from Screen 1 of Edinburgh’s Filmhouse. Eager to comment on the state of contemporary cinema, while both acknowledging its colourful past and attempting to forecast its [...]




Meet the Family in New Extended TV Spot for Pixar’s Brave

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Pixar will be back on the big screen in just a few months’ time (or less than a month if you’re reading this in the US), bringing us their latest feature, Brave. Set in the Scottish Highlands, we’ve been seeing plenty from the film to colour us interested over the past few months – of [...]




New Musical Featurette for Pixar’s Brave featuring All of Your Favourite Scottish Tunes

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Pixar return to the big screen this summer bringing us Brave, a Scotland-set tale of a princess dreaming of becoming more than her royal parents have in mind for her. We’ve seen plenty of brilliant things from the film so far, and a fun little featurette, entitled ‘Freedom Broch!’, has debuted over at Apple, showcasing [...]




Pixar’s Brave gets a New Featurette and Impressive Hi-Res Concept Art

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Pixar’s latest feature is coming to the big screen this summer, and we’ve already seen plenty of great things from it that show it has the potential that essentially everything the studio does has. Adding to all we’ve seen so far, we now have a new featurette, entitled ‘Kilt’, showing off the clothes of the [...]




Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Takes on the NFL Draft in this New Promo

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Here’s one for US audiences (and anyone else who’s a fan of the NFL – that would be American football for those not in the know), as Disney Pixar have released this new promotional video for their new movie, Brave using many of the team in the league and linking them. Mixed with a lovely [...]




Brand New US Trailer Released for Disney Pixar’s Brave

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Last night while we were fast asleep, Disney Pixar released a brand new US trailer (via Apple) for their brand new movie, Brave. The trailer is slightly different to any that we’ve seen before as it features a voice over from Princes Merida (Kelly Macdonald) who gives us an overview of various characters and the [...]




Killer Joe to Open the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival

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Killer Joe will open the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival, artistic director Chris Fujiwara has announced. The noir thriller, directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist), centers on a young man whose life spirals out of control when he hires an unexpectedly charming hit man to kill his own mother for her life insurance policy. In [...]