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Well it’s official, the crowds have cleared, the snow has settled, and the Sundance Festival has officially closed up shop for the year! With this year playing host to over 120 films, it may be hard to sift through the rubble to find those hidden gems that we will continue to enjoy over the next [...]
Director Stephen Frears (The Queen) has a decade-spanning career whose credits have earned him two Oscar nominations to date, so it’s not surprising that his return behind the camera for the indie film, Lay The Favorite, is one of the films I’m most looking forward to this year. The film stars Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, [...]
The last few years have seen Rebecca Hall take on some excellent roles, with The Town, her standout performance in Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give and her recent leading turn in The Awakening bringing her an ever-increasing audience. Her next big screen role is set to be as Beth Raymer in Stephen Frear’s Lay the Favourite [...]
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 celebrate the release of The Awakening on 11 November, we’re giving three readers the chance to win a signed poster and horror DVD bundle to get them in the mood for the film’s chills and thrills! Starring Dominic West (The Wire, 300), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Oscar®-nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), THE AWAKENING is [...]
EVERYTHING MUST GO, starring Will Ferrell, comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 31st October. The film also stars Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern and Michael Pena, and to mark its release we have 3 Blu-rays of the film to give away! Directed by Dan Rush and based on a short story by Raymond Carver, EVERYTHING MUST [...]
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 [...]
Will Ferrell is hardly the first actor who springs to mind as ideal casting for the role of an unemployed, beer-sozzled suburbanite whose life is in freefall, yet watching him in that very role here, an adaptation (or rather an “adding on”) of a short story from famed US writer Raymond Carver, and it’s hard [...]
G2 Pictures have just sent over the new UK poster for their latest movie, Everything Must Go which stars Will Ferrell in a film directed by Dan Rush. It also stars Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona, Frost/Nixon), Laura Dern (I am Sam, Jurassic Park) and Michael Pena (Shooter, Crash) and will be with us 14th October. [...]
My interest was sparked in Nick Murphy’s film the second I heard writer Stephen Volk had a new ghost story to tell, and today we finally have the chance to see a trailer for The Awakening. What this first glimpse does is give a decent indication of the characters and their motives and agendas, as [...]
I was very happy to see that Nick Murphy’s latest was set to play at the London Film Festival this year as this new ghost story from the writer Stephen Volk looks like a solid antidote to the malaise which the likes of Scream and Saw have introduced to the horror genre of late. At [...]
Vince Vaughn is currently in talks to join indie film, Lay The Favorite, Variety is reporting. Already signed on to star are Rebecca Hall (The Town), Bruce Willis (Die Hard), and Justin Timberlake (The Social Network), and I think Vaughn’s addition to the cast would round it off quite nicely. Lay The Favorite will see director Stephen Frears [...]
Joshua Jackson (Cruel Intentions) has signed on to star in comedy-drama Lay the Favourite. Jackson will star opposite Bruce Willis (Pulp Fiction), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (The Rebound). Lay the Favourite will center on a thirtysomething woman (Hall) who becomes involved with a group of geeky fiftyish men who have found a way [...]
Andrea Riseborough (Made in Dagenham) and Clive Owen (Closer) have replaced Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Guy Pearce (The Hurt Locker) as the leads in Shadow Dancer. Gillian Anderson (The Last King of Scotland) and Aidan Gillen (Wake Wood) round out the cast. Based on the crime-drama novel by Tom Bradby, Shadow Dancer is set to [...]
Roadside Attractions have released the official trailer and poster for comedy-drama Everything Must Go, an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s short story. Directed by Dan Rush, Everything Must Go stars Will Ferrell (Stranger Than Fiction), Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona), Laura Dern (Inland Empire), Stephen Root (No Country for Old Men) and Michael Peña (Crash). When an alcoholic [...]
Submarine Entertainment have released the debut trailer for indie-drama A Bag of Hammers. Directed by Brian Crano (Rubberheart), A Bag of Hammers premiered at SXSW festival earlier this week to warm reviews from critics. The film stars Jason Ritter (Swimfan), Jake Sandvig (Easy A), Rebecca Hall (Please Give), Chandler Canterbury (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ), Carrie Preston [...]
The Town is the latest venture for Ben Affleck as both director and actor working on a script which came originally from the book, Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan. According to the info on the movie, over 300 bank robberies take place in Boston every year which makes this the perfect place for The [...]
The Ben Affleck directed movie, The Town hits DVD and Blu-ray on the 31st January and if you’ve not seen it, it’s absolutely worth checking out. Jon, Gary and I all saw it during it’s theatrical run and really enjoyed it and you can read gary’s review here. Affleck also starred in the movie alongside [...]
We’ve had our eye on Nick Murphy’s forthcoming film The Awakening for some time now. Knowing that writer Stephen Volk was working with director Murphy on a ghost story was a possibility too enticing to ignore. Volk’s work is known to millions, with Ghostwatch my own personal favourite, but his TV series Afterlife and his [...]
