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Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis Review

Inside Llewyn Davis

The Greenwich Village Folk scene of the early sixties provides the setting for the Coen Brothers’ wonderfully meandering portrait of a struggling folk musician. The folk setting does not define Inside Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) though, Llewyn is in many ways more a representative of artists in general and in particular one struggling to have [...]




Cannes 2013: Behind the Candelabra Review

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Whilst Side Effects has received a lot of publicity for potentially being Steven Soderbergh’s last film, the HBO produced Behind the Candelabra is currently playing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and will receive a theatrical release throughout Europe next month. ‘TV Movies’ have played Cannes before and they will no doubt play here [...]




Cannes 2013: Takashi Miike’s Wara No Tate Review

Wara No Tate

Takashi Miike returns to Cannes with perhaps his most conventional film yet, an overblown but highly entertaining thriller about five cops transporting a despicable child murderer across Japan. Tatsuya Fujiwara, who is perhaps best know in the West for his portrayal of the naive and sweet Nanahara in Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale, plays Kiyomaru, the [...]




Jackie Chan Updates on his role in The Expendables 3, and a New Film Series with Chris Tucker

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Jackie Chan has indicated that he will star in The Expendables 3 if he can make his schedule work. In an interview with Getty Images Entertainment at the Cannes Film Festival, the martial arts legend confirmed that Sylvester Stallone’s tweets about his possible  involvement in the threequel are not far off the mark.  I would [...]




Cannes 2013: La Danza de la Realidad Review

La Danza de la Realidad

Jodorowsky returns with his first feature film in over twenty years – his last being the rather disappointing and atypical The Rainbow Thief – the bewitching La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance of Reality). An adaptation of his autobiographical book of the same name La Danza de la Realidad is obviously a deeply personal [...]




Cannes 2013 – The Festival and Gatsby le magnifique

The Great Gatsby

“He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way”. So says Nick Carraway of the titular Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann’s dazzling if flimsy adaptation of the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The quote also aptly applies [...]




Cannes 2013: Jeune & Jolie Review

Jeune & Jolie

François Ozon, the former enfant terrible of French Cinema, returns after his career best In the House with a rather sedate, even if it is occasionally mildly provocative, character study into the sexual awakening of a seventeen year-old girl. Isabelle, the girl in question, is played by Marine Vacth, an actress for who this will [...]




Cannes 2013: Heli Review

Heli

A depressing insight into a poor family in Mexico makes for uneasy if occasionally powerful viewing in Heli, Amat Escalante’s third feature following Sangre in 2005 and Los bastardos  in 2008. Heli is named after its central character, a poor young man who works at a local Japanese Automobile factory and lives with his partner, [...]




Cannes 2013: The Bling Ring Review

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Based on real events and inspired by an article in Vanity Fair, Sofia Coppola’s latest directorial turn concerns itself with those that emulate the kind of characters she has previously devoted whole films to; Dorff’s Johnny Marco in Somewhere, Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette and to a lesser extent Bill Murray’s Bob Harris in Lost [...]




Cannes 2013: First Look at Posters of Shaun the Sheep & Many More, Expendables 3 Tagline Offers Clues

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While the Promenade de la Croisette is bustling with critics and filmmakers soaking up the sun there is an abundance of future films being shopped around, and some of the promotional artwork is on show for all to see. Our man Craig Skinner has just sent these images from the merry-go-round of marketing and there [...]




Cannes Film Festival unveils Line-Up, Led by Only God Forgives, Inside Llewyn Davis & Nebraska

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With less than a month to go before the festival kicks off out in France, the official line-up has finally been unveiled for this year’s 66th Cannes Film Festival. The festival is, of course, one of the most prominent events of the year for the industry, with a handful of films launching their status as [...]




Only God Forgives Teaser Poster

Only God Forgives

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) [...]




Poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival Released

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Cannes Film Festival is one of our favourite events of the year and I’m pleased to let you all know that we’ll be there again this year to bring you as many reviews from the French Riviera as we possibly can. This morning, Cannes have released this rather clever poster for the 66th Festival de [...]




Nicolas Winding Refn To Direct The Equalizer

Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) is negotiating a deal to direct The Equalizer for Sony Pictures Entertainment and Escape Artists. The film, which has been in various stages of development since June 2010 and boasts a script by screenwriter Richard Wenk (The Expendables 2), is loosely based on the short-lived CBS TV series of the same [...]




Laurence Anyways Review

Laurence Anyways

Québécois wunderkind Xavier Dolan returns to the fold with Laurence Anyways, a weighty and sprawling three-hour opus that picked up the Queer Palm award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Illustrating a marked improvement in substance over the writer-director’s previous efforts, Laurence Anyways takes its viewers on an intense emotional voyage as Laurence (Melvil Poupaud), [...]




The HeyUGuys Interview – Steve Oram and Alice Lowe Talk Sightseers

Sightseers

A surprise hit on the festival circuit this year – with triumphant showings at Cannes, Toronto and London – Sightseers comprises of two characters, Chris and Tina, who had been under development for a number of years, and ahead of the film’s November 30 release, we caught up with the writers and stars themselves, Steve [...]




New UK Trailer for On The Road Starring Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley & Viggo Mortensen

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MSN have just released the brand new UK trailer for On the Road. On the Road stars Kristen Stewart, Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Amy Adams, Viggo Mortensen, Steve Buscemi, Kirsten Dunst is directed by Walter Salles and is based on the book by Jack Kerouac. If you missed our review of the film from Cannes, you can [...]




The Angels’ Share Interview – Paul Brannigan

The Angels' Share Interview - Paul Brannigan

Following its triumph in Cannes last month Ken Loach’s The Angles’ Share enters UK cinemas today. We interviewed Director Ken Loach and Screenwriter Paul Laverty here and we have the second of our interviews below. Stefan Pape sat down with actor Paul Brannigan, whose character Robbie leads the film as a new dad who has [...]




The Angels’ Share Interview: Paul Laverty Ken Loach

The Angels' Share Interview Paul Laverty Ken Loach

Following its triumph in Cannes last month Ken Loach’s The Angles’ Share enters UK cinemas today and we’ve got a number of interviews for you. Stefan Pape sat down with Director Ken Loach and Screenwriter Paul Lavertyto talk about their new movie which won the Jury Price at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. You can [...]




Ryan Gosling Beaten & Bruised in New Set Photos from Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives

Only God Forgives

After the immensity that is Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling’s reunion for Only God Forgives was always going to be surrounded with anticipation. Craig caught the three-minute footage preview at Cannes and described it in his report as ‘stylised to the extreme’, which sounds perfect to me. After the first official image surfaced [...]