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To celebrate the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D which arrives in cinemas February 9th, we are giving away two pairs of tickets to an exclusive advance screening on Wednesday the 8th February. The screening will take place at a West End venue (this will be revealed once you receive your [...]
Austin, TX – Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop, a documentary that follows the former Tonight Show host premiered at SXSW Film Festival Sunday. Directed by Rodman Flender, the documentary filmed during Conan’s ”Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television” comedy tour, after his departure from the Tonight Show, takes viewers into an intimate journey of O’Brien’s life. Here’s [...]
The long awaited sequel to Tron, Disney’s groundbreaking computer-animated 1982 feature (titled Tron: Legacy) is heading to the cinema screenings soon, and HeyUGuys were fortunate enough to attend a special screening yesterday, where they were privy to 23 minutes of footage (all in 3D!) and a preview of the film’s score, composed by French electronic [...]
HeyUGuys were given the chance to see eight minutes of the upcoming Saw 3D, intending to showcase more gory killings, but this time in 3D, for the final movie of the franchise. What I saw was barely worth getting that excited about except for the opening scene which I will go into later. The set [...]
I was lucky enough to visit Warner Bros today to get a sneak peak preview of the upcoming animated feature ‘Legend of the Guardians’. I had my reservations and I certainly didn’t expect to come away extremely impressed, enthusiastic and full of anticipation for its release on the 22nd of October 2010. The thirty minutes [...]
23 years ago, a formulaic Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle was released. It enjoyed box office, if not necessarily critical success. A lacklustre follow-up ensured the franchise was, cinematically at least, silenced for many years. The series’ protagonists were given their big screen resurrection 6 years ago with shared billing, with a sequel 3 years later. [...]
Dubbed ‘Back to The Future’ meets ‘The Hangover’, Hot Tub Time Machine finally hits UK cinemas this week to quantum leap audiences back to 1986 with an almighty flash, bang and whollop of 80s nostalgia! US audiences were privy to this back in March, so now it’s our turn to catch up on MGM’s latest [...]
If you’ve listened to the HeyUGuys Mouth Off podcasts about nostalgia this week (here and here), or indeed followed the news of endless remakes and franchises in development over the last year, you know the eighties are very current right now. Periods always come back in vogue, and we look back fondly at the great times [...]
Philip K Dick is just one of many successful science fiction novel writers from history. He is possibly the one who has had the most work adapted for the big screen however. The reason? His stories were exciting, compelling, and conveyed timeless messages that are still relevant today. Because of this, there are many who [...]
13 years ago, Matt Damon managed to shoot himself into the A-list thanks to writing partner Ben Affleck, and collaboration Good Will Hunting. Or so he thought. Despite critical acclaim, and an Academy Award for the screenplay, Damon’s door wasn’t exactly being beaten down. He picked up some big parts here or there, but was [...]
My first introduction to Kurosawa and also to Japanese cinema in general was one rainy Sunday afternoon when I was around ten years old and I watched Rashomon. This film was a revelation and the experience remains a defining film memory. This led me to get more and more interested in cinema and in particular [...]
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. They go together like Soderbergh and Damon, Scorsese and Di Caprio, Eastwood and Eastwood… Burton and Depp have worked together on six different feature films, and Burton’s latest, an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland will be the seventh. Why do Burton and Depp work together so frequently? Tim Burton is [...]
In choosing to return to the well with a much smaller bucket, Martin Campbell will have known that diluting his acclaimed six hour 1985 BBC mini series Edge of Darkness into a two hour thriller would be a minefield. Bringing Mel Gibson on board was seemingly a good move; out of the acting spotlight for [...]
Mel Gibson has had a hard time of it in recent years. His box office draw began to wane, along with other stars of his generation. Then came the bad publicity, the result of a drunken mistake. Aside from his limited success as a director, Gibson was fading from movie-going consciousness. This year Gibson [...]
About ten years ago, three promising young actors were working to secure a place amongst the Hollywood A-list. Natalie Portman had finished her first major acting role, as Mathilda in Luc Bessons Leon. She would go on to make her major breakthrough in the Star Wars prequels. Tobey Maguire had small roles in respected films like [...]
Ten years ago, the Wachowski brothers, little known at the time, released their second movie as directors, The Matrix. A product of their love of Hong Kong action movies and Manga, it became huge. The mix of stylish action and spiritual introspection struck a chord, particularly with teenage boys searching for an identity. Two inferior [...]
Four years ago, the first of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga novels was published. Four novels and one smash hit movie later, and Twilight has become a global phenomena every bit as huge as Harry Potter. Next week sees the release of the second movie in the Twilight Saga, New Moon. Based on the novel of the same [...]
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying Independence Day was a big movie, with a place in cinematic history. Roland Emmerich has been the prince of diminishing returns since, but remains the current king of the global disaster movie. With next week’s 2012, he’s hoping to get his career back on track. 10,000 BC [...]
