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Many of you may be aware of the sad news of Ken Russell’s passing yesterday at the age of 84. The British director was a colourful figure who, throughout his long career (which began back in TV during the late 50’s) managed to shock, perturb and upset the establishment with his sometimes controversial perspective on [...]
Felicity Jones (Albatross) has landed the lead female role in Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes biopic. The as-yet-untitled film will centre on a young woman (Jones) who develops a relationship with Hughes’s young driver and confidante, before she falls in love with Hughes. Justin Timberlake, Alden Ehrenreich, Annette Bening, Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin and Owen Wilson are reportedly [...]
Imagine watching a film from the ‘Elm St’ series and suddenly finding one of Freddy Krueger’s razor-sharp taloned glove tapping you on the back. Or how would you feel if, viewing the scene in The Shining where Jack Nicholson finally loses it completely, his character from that very film shimmied into view, dragging his large [...]
Frequent Nicolas Cage collaborator Jon Turteltaub is changing tack for his next feature. The Hollywood Reporter brings news that the National Treasure helmer is in talks to make comedy Last Vegas. Written by Crazy, Stupid, Love’s Dan Fogelman, it concerns four retired friends who reunite in Vegas to celebrate one of the quartet’s upcoming nuptials [...]
In an interview with Leicester Square TV at the London Hong Kong Film Week, Infernal Affairs writer and director Alan Mak thinks that a second ‘The Departed’ movie could be on the way but no news yet as to whether Martin Scorsese would return to direct. Mak wrote the screenplay for the original movie, Infernal [...]
What do you get when you put Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson in a film together? Answer: an impressive cast, which is greater than the sum of what is on offer here. How Do You Know is very much like a recipe that should work, but lacks a lightness and assured [...]
An actor, director, scriptwriter, poet, boxer and accomplished painter, Jerzy Skolimowski was born in Lodz, Poland in 1938. He graduated from the Lodz Film Academy in 1960, and has made more than 20 features to date, including the London set Deep End (reissued theatrically by the BFI on June 6th) and Moonlighting. Skolimowski stopped making [...]
Matthew Vaughn is fast competing with Zack Snyder to see who can churn out the most comic book adaptations in one career with news from Deadline with the Kick-Ass director has another project involving those defenders of good in the works. Vaughan is still putting the final post-production touches to this summer’s prequel X-Men: First [...]
Here’s the brand new UK trailer for Columbia’s new movie, How do You Know which features an all star cast including Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd, Jack Nicholson, and is directed by James L. Brooks. Synopsis: How Do You Know is a comedy from Academy Award-winning writer-director James L. Brooks (As Good As It [...]
Here’s a new batch of images from How Do You Know which has the rather fabulous cast which includes Reese Witherspoon, Jack Nicholson, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Andrew Wilson and Kathryn Hahn. The movie had it’s LA Premiere a couple of night’s ago and I’ve placed the footage below. We also have some new images [...]
Currently winning plaudits for his role in Sofia Coppola’s new feature Somewhere (Lost in Translation II: The Road Home), Stephen Dorff has revealed in an interview with The Independent that he’s working on an idea for a script in which he plans to team up again with his Blood and Wine co-star, Jack Nicholson. Dorff [...]
RopeofSilicon have divulged a brand new poster for Columbia Pictures’ romantic comedy How Do You Know. Written and directed by James L. Brooks (Spanglish), How Do You Know stars Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson, Jack Nicholson, Dean Norris, Andrew Wilson and Kathryn Hahn. How Do You Know will be released in the UK on [...]
The IMDb250. A list of the top 250 films as ranked by the users of the biggest Internet movie site on the web. It is based upon the ratings provided by the users of the Internet Movie Database, which number into the millions. As such, it’s a perfect representation of the opinions of the movie [...]
Last seen on screen together facing off in a courtroom (in 1992’s A Few Good Men), Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson may be reunited for action comedy El Presidente. The LA Times are reporting that Warner Bros. has made an offer to Nicholson, who is set to play the part of a bumbling ex-President who [...]
I was a fan of Tim Burton’s entry in the late nineties alien invasion craze, from the opening scene which features a stampeding herd of blazing cattle to Rod Steiger’s bombastic US Army General constantly calling for a nuclear answer to the threat from the bizarre alien invaders. At a time when the po-faced Independence [...]
How do you know, when news of another Hollywood romantic comedy appears, that it will be any different to the multitude of fellow love/laughfests out there? Well, this one seeks to distance itself from the pack by emblazoning the name of the James L. Brooks over the trailer. And don’t be fooled by this trailer, [...]
Back in 2004, a script from Paul Haggis was sold to New Line. Vince Vaughn and Jack Nicholson signed up for the lead roles, and Paul Haggis himself was set to direct. Unfortunately, due to financing, production fell through. Fast-forward six years and The Playlist are reporting that Jonathan Demme (The Manchurian Candidate, Rachel Getting Married) is now [...]
Every once in a while we come across those films that we may see in the theater or on DVD and think how we like it enough to sit through it again. And again. And again. I like to call these types of films “Re-watchables”. These are not to be confused with their counterparts, the [...]
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