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New Trailer and Quad Poster for The Iceman with Michael Shannon

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Michael Shannon has been very much on the rise in recent years, earning an Oscar nomination for Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road, winning a slew of awards for his leading role in Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter, and starring alongside Steve Buscemi in HBO’s acclaimed Boardwalk Empire. He has two major films arriving in theatres this summer, [...]




New Trailer for The Iceman with Michael Shannon, Chris Evans & Winona Ryder

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Debuting at Venice last year to excellent early reviews, Ariel Vromen’s The Iceman has the promise to be one of the year’s finest crime-thrillers. Michael Shannon leads an all-star cast, based on the true story of Richard Kuklinski: loving husband, devoted father, and ruthless killer. We saw the first trailer arrive as the film debuted [...]




Top Ten Straight to DVD/Limited Release films of 2012

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Despite seeming to have more and more multiplexes with over ten screens than ever before, we still found ourselves in a situation where a lot of great films end up not getting a cinema release or more frequently end up playing for one week only at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. With the rise [...]




First Look Images: Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch & Stephen Dorff in The Motel Life

Dakota Fanning in The Motel Life

With an excellent leading trio in the form of Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch, and Stephen Dorff, The Motel Life is certainly a drama to look out for next year. The film will be screening as part of the Rome Film Festival, which kicks off in earnest on Friday, and ahead of its debut, half a [...]




LFF 2012: Eran Riklis Interview for Zaytoun

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Zaytoun, directed by Eran Riklis, is a conceptually interesting film. Bringing to mind ‘buddy movie’ plotting the story focuses on an Israeli fighter pilot and a Palestinian boy who form a bond whilst on the run together across Lebanon. I was lucky enough to speak to Eran Riklis at the London Film Festival and he was both candid [...]




EIFF 2012: Brake Review

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Jeremy Reins (Stephen Dorff) awakens to find himself locked in the boot of a car with nothing but a mobile phone, radio transmitter, illuminated digital countdown clock and an overwhelming lack of knowledge as to the reasons behind his sudden imprisonment. However, as time passes, it becomes clear that this nightmarish scenario is more than simply a [...]




EIFF 2012 – Direct from the Filmhouse

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Ahead of the festival’s June 20th launch, Chief Executive Ken Hay and Artistic Director Chris Fujiwara today announced the 2012 EIFF’s full selection of shorts, feature films and documentaries from Screen 1 of Edinburgh’s Filmhouse. Eager to comment on the state of contemporary cinema, while both acknowledging its colourful past and attempting to forecast its [...]




Exclusive Interview With Greg Bryk For “Immortals”

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As part of our coverage of the DVD & Blu-ray release of Tarsem Singh’s stylistically impressive and surprisingly narratively coherent “Immortals” we had the chance to speak with Greg Bryk who plays The Monk. He proved to be as intelligent, considered and candid an interview subject as you could hope for, covering his own route [...]




Immortals – DVD Review

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Ancient Greece. Theseus (Henry Cavill), a heroic but mortal man is chosen by Zeus (Luke Evans) to lead the fight against King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), who is searching for the Epirus Bow in order to be able to unleash the Titans, held bound in the base of Mount Tartarus. ***** Tarsem Singh is undoubtedly a [...]




Immortals Review

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Having spent his childhood training at the instruction of Zeus (Luke Evans – in the guise of John Hurt so that he doesn’t break his own law forbidding divine interference), Theseus (Henry Cavill) finds himself thrust into battle when the King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) destroys his village and kills his mother in search of the legendary Epirus Bow. Joining forces with the [...]




Win Merchandise from Immortals

Immortals Merchandise

“Heaven and Earth will collide” To celebrate the release of visionary director Tarsem Singh’s Immortals (coming to cinemas nationwide from 11th November) we have exclusive Immortals Hoodie and Bag sets to giveaway to three lucky readers. Producers Gianni Nunnari (300), Mark Canton (300), and Ryan Kavanaugh (The Fighter) unleash an epic tale of treachery, vengeance [...]




Exclusive: A Fantastic Immortals Featurette Focusing on Production Design

Immortals Production Design

We’ve been sent this rather nice little featurette for Immortals which hits UK cinemas a week today on 11th November. The featurette focuses around the production design for the movie which, although is CGI heavy, was still reliant on real sets to compliment the CG and to make it look as good as it possibly [...]




Two New Images Released for Immortals

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Relativity Media have released a couple of new images for their new movie, Immortals which is showing this weekend during Comic-Con which is currently taking place in San Diego. The movie stars Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz, Henry Cavill, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff and is directed by Tarsem Singh. It’s released in [...]




Immortals Gets a New Poster

Immortals Poster

As I type this, the Immortals panel is currently taking place in San Diego at Comic Con. To coincide with this, Relativity Media have released this new poster for the movie, which is showing this weekend. The movie stars Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz, Henry Cavill, John Hurt, Isabel Lucas, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff and is [...]




Somewhere DVD Review

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Sofia Coppola’s latest film is an emotional  roadtrip, dragging us through a curious Hollywood limbo searching for a connection to something to make sense of the strange world we are in. We’ve been here before with Coppola, and we’ve passed many signposts to Somewhere on the way. Stephen Dorff plays a successful actor who, much [...]




Impressive ‘Immortals’ Posters are Far From a Greek Tragedy

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Five character posters for Tarsem Singh’s new Greek fantasy, Immortals, made their debut at this week’s Wondercon in San Francisco, and now you can see them for yourselves below (courtesy of Fandango). The comparisons with Zack Snyder’s 300 extend beyond the fact that both films share a producer (which is the obvious marketing hook being [...]




Win Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere on Blu-ray

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To celebrate the release of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere on DVD and Blu-ray 4th April, Universal Pictures International Entertainment have given us five copies of the movie on Blu-ray to give away! Synopsis: From Academy Award-winning writer/director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette), Universal Pictures International Entertainment is pleased to announce the [...]




Somewhere Review

Somewhere

Sofia Coppola’s fourth feature finds her back on home soil in a tale of paternal love and redemption set around the social hub of the Hollywood elite. Stephen Dorff (back from bit-part wilderness to fully-fledged leading man status) stars as a single, pampered Hollywood superstar named Johnny Marco and when we meet the hard-partying actor, [...]




Featurette for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere

Here’s a behind-the-scenes featurette for Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere – her first film since 2006’s ill-received Marie Antoinette. The film (which earned the director the Golden Lion at Venice this year) star’s Stephen Dorff as an A-List actor living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel, who begins to reassess his hedonistic lifestyle when his 11-year-old daughter [...]




Stephen Dorff Knows Jack When it Comes to Comedy

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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 [...]