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[The following review features a number of spoilers] Rolling Thunder is the story of Major Charles Ranes (William Devane), a Vietnam vet who returns from years of imprisonment and torture in a Vietcong POW camp to his home in Texas. He and his prison mate Johnny (Tommy Lee Jones) are greeted at the airport with a heroes [...]
To celebrate the release of Taxi Driver on Blu-ray NOW, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have given us three copies of the classic movie to give away. The movie is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster. Synopsis: At 26, Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (De Niro) is slipping slowly into isolation [...]
Danish writer/director Lars von Trier is set to remake The Five Obstructions, his 2003 documentary about filmmaking, this time with Martin Scorsese working opposite him, THR reports. Both directors have an awards list longer than the eye can see, so what they will produce together should certainly be interesting. Von Trier was a leading and [...]
With shades of Taxi Driver and (if not thematically-matched) still a little hint of First Blood, The Veteran stars Toby Kebbell as Robert Miller, a former soldier back in London after a stint in Afghanistan and suffering from post traumatic stress disorder. It doesn’t help that he’s living in a violent housing estate either, proceeded [...]
Robert De Niro is taking a short, well-deserved break from appearing in his huge roster of films to watch a bunch of them instead. He’s been named as President of the Jury for May’s Festival de Cannes (now in its 64th year!) The actor is no stranger to the festival circuit, having co-founded the Tribeca [...]
HeyUGuys bumped into an old friend on our journey home tonight. We exchanged civilities and they asked the inevitable question “what have you been up to?” “Well,” we replied “actually we’ve been watching a film in a Soho car park”. And do you know what faithful readers – we spoke the truth. This evening our [...]
Lars Von Trier courts controversy like a lovesick puppy chasing media taillights and film festivals provide a suitably dazzling arena, and while he’s shopping around the Penelope Cruz-less psychological disaster film Melancholia rumours have sprung up which have split the movie-loving public in half. In the Berlin Film Festival press conference for his latest film, [...]
