Danny Boyle’s Trance loses Fassbender, Firth and Johansson Being Eyed

Danny Boyle enjoys Moët. Other sparkling wines are available.

It was reported last month that ahead of his Olympic duties next year Danny Boyle had signed on to direct on heist-gone-up-the-swanny thriller Trance with recent X-Men alumni James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender taking up leading roles. The film is a remake of Joe Ahearne’s 2001 TV movie starring Neil Pearson, Susannah Harker and Philip [...]

Danny Boyle Enters a Trance

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Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave) has signed on to direct heist-thriller Trance. Boyle will reunite with his 127 Hours and Slumdog Millionaire producer Christian Colson, and are in talks with Fox Searchlight and Pathé for finance and distribution. The film is described as an art heist gone wrong, with the dark, sexy, hard-edged tone of previous Boyle films. It [...]

Centurion Review

In AD 117 the Roman Empire spanned territory from Egypt to Spain and as far as the Black Sea to the East.  In Northern Britain though, the Roman onslaught ground to a halt when it met an elusive enemy whose guerrilla tactics and surprise attacks made dominos of their rigid formations.  These were the savage [...]

Exclusive Interview: Jon Harris

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Though still only in his early forties Jon Harris has already had a long and impressive career in film.  Having worked as editor on such Brit classics as Layer Cake, Snatch and Starter for Ten and worldwide hits The Descent and Stardust, he is much in demand.  Indeed he most recently worked on the fervently [...]

The Descent: Part 2 Review

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In 2005 Neil Marshall’s imagine-if-Alien-were-set-in-a-cave feature The Descent scared the living daylights out of cinemagoers worldwide.  Lacking the bawdy humour of his werewolf masterpiece Dog Soldiers, it was nevertheless an honest to goodness horror film that pulled no punches and left no survivors.  Unless you watched the American cut. The folk who decided to make [...]

Trailer: The Descent Part 2

According to this new trailer, ‘Critics called Descent, the most terrifying monster movie since Alien’. The caption then says ‘The Daily Star‘ in very small letters. I’m not sure the ‘Daily Star’ speak for all film critics but they got their name on a trailer so good for them! The original Descent for me was [...]