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Here’s the first trailer for Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut, Wild Bill. The movie stars Will Poulter, Liz White, Andy Serkis and Jaime Winstone. We got to see the movie at the London Film Festival and you can read our review of it here. Fletcher has been on our screens for years and became famous amongst [...]
We’ve seen the world end many times in recent years. From rapture-teasing shadow monsters to a scorched Earth thanks to a solar belch from the Sun, we’ve suffered an asteroid apocalypse, Mayan prophecies and death by planetfall – the end of everything has never been so popular. In Take Shelter there are no crowds of [...]
The death of a young boy at a remote schoolhouse and the supposed ghostly circumstance of the incident draws the attention of Florence Cathcart, a young woman well-known for exposing fraudulent supernatural happenings, to investigate the matter and uncover the true nature of the tragic event. With The Awakening director Nick Murphy and his co-writer [...]
The Awakening is a welcome return to the big screen for writer Stephen Volk, self proclaimed ‘tub-thumper’ for the horror genre and the man behind the acclaimed small screen horrorshows Afterlife and Ghostwatch. His new film (out in UK cinemas tomorrow ) was directed by Nick Murphy and is as far from the Death-by-irony gorefests [...]
To round off our coverage of the 55th BFI London Film Festival were taking a look back at one of the most prominent strands of the festival – the French Revolutions programme. One of the festival’s chief pledges is to bring the best of the world’s cinema to London and Jack Jones leads us through [...]
It was one of my favourite films of the London Film Festival and ahead of is UK release on the 25th of November there’s a grand new poster for Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter. Our good friends over at The Hollywood News got the scoop on this fine new poster, which throws as many star ratings, [...]
With the release of OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies in 2006 Michel Hazanavicius and the seemingly effortlessly charismatic Jean Dujardin looked set for global domination and a real crossover into the mainstream cinema-goer’s consciousness. Outside of France OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, and the equally smart and entertaining sequel OSS 117 – Lost [...]
In the 2010 fiction film Kick-Ass the titular character comments, following his defense of an unarmed man being beaten up outside a diner, “…three assholes, laying into one guy while everybody else watches? And you wanna know what’s wrong with me?”. This apathetic attitude and the desire to do something tangible about it is really [...]
Last week, I got to chat with writer of The The Ides of March, Beau Willimon and one of the cast members, Evan Rachel Wood about playing the role of Molly Stearns in the movie which is released tomorrow, Friday 28th October. I’ve broken the two interviews and if you missed my interview with Beau, [...]
We’ve just been sent the winners list for The BFI London Film Festival 2011 and massive congrats to We Need to Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay and all her cast and crew for winning the award. I’ll just make this post about the winners but I’m sure we’ll do a reaction post imminently. So [...]
Last week, I got to chat with writer of The The Ides of March, Beau Willimon and one of the cast members, Evan Rachel Wood about playing the role of Molly Stearns in the movie which is released this Friday 28th October. I’ve broken the two interviews into two posts and today you’ll get to [...]
Rivalry in the field of Talmudic studies may not seem like the most compelling premise for a feature film but perhaps the greatest surprise in Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is that the basics of the story, embittered personal politics and family divides amongst Talmudic scholars, is by far the film’s greatest strength. At the centre of the confusion [...]
As the second week of the LFF draws to a close, a film we’ve been following at HeyUGuys for quite some time, Wild Bill – the directorial debut of Dexter Fletcher – finally makes its UK debut. We rather enjoyed the movie, so hot footed it down to Vue in Leicester Square to catch up [...]
A highlight of the London Film Festival this year was the chance to catch a fine performance from Michael Shannon as a troubled young husband and father dealing with the responsibilities to his family while watching for signs of an encroaching mental illness. Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter is a mesmerising film and comes to [...]
Miss Bala opens on a static shot of a wall, a wall filled with cut out pictures of American female fashion icons – Madonna, Monroe, Audrey Hepburn – and a mirror. Reflected in the mirror we get a glimpse at our protagonist, Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman), partially obscured as she busies herself around her room. The symbolic potency of this opening [...]
Last night, London saw the UK Premiere at the London Film Festival for the brand new Geroge Clooney movie, The Ides of March. Clooney not only stars in the movie but co-wrote the screenplay along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon who I got to sit down with and interview earlier today. The film sees [...]
The release of a inmate from prison and their subsequent reintegration into ‘regular’ society is an area that is filled with potential for interesting drama. Ulu Grosbard’s under-seen and underrated 1978 film Straight Time (based on the equally excellent book No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker) uses this premise to explore the way in which the released inmate’s, played by Dustin Hoffman, life is [...]
Anyone who has already seen Masaki Kobayashi’s 1962 film Harakiri, of which this film is very much a remake, will very quickly realise when watching Miike’s 2011 update that little in the story has been changed but whilst the mechanics of the story are unchanged Miike makes significant changes in the way this story is told. Hara-Kiri: Death of [...]
Nick Murphy’s debut film is an old school ghost story in every sense with Rebecca Hall’s journey to invesigate alledged spooky happenings finds her rolling up at a boys school in the middle of nowhere with a murdered pupil and a host of unanswered questions. I caught the film earlier this month as it plays [...]
Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is 1.68 meters tall and feels very inadequate about it. Despite working in a highly paid job, as a corporate headhunter, having a beautiful house and spending a fortune on luxury gifts for his wife, his tall wife, Diana (Synnove Macody Lund), he believes that he is not enough for her. Roger is [...]
