Review: My Last Five Girlfriends
After seeing the gritty but flawed British film ‘The Scouting Book for Boys’, Reviewed here, I was looking forward to witnessing another British film in ‘My Last Five Girlfriends’ and hoped for another example of what British Cinema has to offer. Unfortunately it turned out to be a flat, underwhelming Rom-Com but something that would [...]
Review: The Scouting Book For Boys
The Scouting Book for Boys is a solid Directorial debut film from Tom Harper and showcases what the wonderful British film industry is willing to support get made. Starring the excellent young talents of Thomas Turgoose of This is England fame and Holly Grainger who starred in the TV series Demons and Waterloo Road, these [...]
Is an Avatar: Extended Edition Coming to Our Cinemas?
James Cameron’s Avatar has railed through box office records and Fox are basking in its afterglow with coffers overflowing and looking ahead to their next wave of cash courtesy of Pandora.
The astonishing success of Avatar does have its drawbacks, primarily how to overcome the inevitable disappointment of the transfer, and loss of the all important [...]
Review: Shutter Island
Shutter Island, a film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio in their forth collaboration in eight years. On the back of the Oscar winning The Departed the pair have a lot to live up too in the adaptation of Dennis Lehane novel of the same name and gladly the film was a triumph [...]
Review: Green Zone
Clearly the only way to really promote Green Zone was to use the word Bourne in as many places possible, in the trailer, on posters in interviews and of course it’s the best way to promote Green Zone because the lead character looks him and according to the trailer acts like him but it’s just the [...]
Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is based on the first of the popular Millennium trilogy books by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Already into the third film of the trilogy in Scandanavia since November 2009, we lucky Brits are finally getting the chance to see the first film of the trilogy this week and its [...]
Watch an Up In The Air Deleted Scene
Embedded below is a deleted scene from the Blu-Ray/DVD of Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, released in the US on March 9th.
The deleted scene is a montage that focuses on the period in the film when Ryan (George Clooney) is grounded in Omaha following the implementation of Natalie’s (Anna Kendrick) new system which facilitates [...]
Review: Exit Through the Gift Shop
It is probably best to state up front for any fans of Banksy that the main subject of Exit Through The Gift Shop is not really Banksy. Although he appears on screen his face and voice are both masked and he is definitely not the true star of the film. The central character is a [...]
Alice In Wonderland May Make $100 Million Weekend Haul
The early word of mouth on Disney’s latest, the live action Tim Burton directed Alice in Wonderland, was not overwhelmingly positive, and the curious news cycle of a possible cinema boycott in the UK and the US may have kept Alice in the news in the weeks running up to the film’s release yesterday, but [...]
Mouth Off Episode 9 – Legion, Chloe, The Oscars and The Trouble with Remakes
It’s that time of the week again when you can put your feet up and let the aural experience of a HeyUGuys Mouth Off podcast brighten your day.
Taken to task this week on the podcast, Dave, /Film’s Brendon Connelly and I talk over the new UK cinema releases this week, focusing on Paul Bettany’s Angels [...]
