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Exclusive Featurette from The Descendants ‘Everybody Loves George’!

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Oscar winning movie (Best Adapted Screenplay), The Descendants hit DVD and Blu-ray in the UK yesterday and to celebrate, we’ve got this exclusive featurette from the movie with the rather intriguing title ‘Everybody Loves George’. It basically has all the members of the cast telling us why George Clooney is such a top bloke! It [...]




The HeyUGuys UK DVD/Blu-Ray Release Round-Up – 21st May

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After last week’s brilliant new releases in the home entertainment market, headed up by Steve McQueen’s Shame and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (I bought them both on Blu-ray, the latter in HMV’s exclusive steelbook special edition), this week sees another great slew of titles for us to add to our collections. [...]




Toni Collette & Steve Carell Join The Way, Way Back

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Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine) and Steve Carell (Dan in Real Life) will star in The Way, Way Back, Variety are reporting. Collette and Carell, who previously worked together on the critically acclaimed and award winning Little Miss Sunshine, will star opposite Allison Janney (The Help), Sam Rockwell (Moon) and AnnaSophia Robb (Soul Surfer) in the long-delayed [...]




A Madcap Look at the 2012 Oscars Ceremony – Ryan Gosling’s Revenge

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Yes, I used the word ‘madcap’. It doesn’t get used enough and I’m always happy to throw it out there when I feel its appropriate. And this video reeks of appropriateness. It’s easy to forget that less than a week ago we were following the happenings in Tinsletown, States for the Oscars. Sleep deprived and, [...]




The 2012 Oscars Live Blog

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Right! It’s another caffeine fuelled night ahead of us as we prepare to liveblog the 84th Academy Awards. The Artist is the favourite to scoop up the awards tonight, which would round off a grand few days for Michel Hazanavicius and his silent film which run rampant through the Cesars and Independent Spirit awards but [...]




POLL: Which Film should win the Best Picture Oscar?

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Sunday night brings a gold-plated backslap to the world of film and whatever the results of the Oscars there will be debate and derision in equal measure. The question of relevance will rear its ugly, pointless head again and whether we see The Artist running riot over the opposition or if Scorsese’s Hugo takes home [...]




How to get Nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in Five Easy Steps

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The Best Picture accolade at the Academy Awards if probably the most vaunted, talked about, and prestigious prizes in the world of film. This reputation is impressive given that not a year goes by when the choice for nominations, and sometimes even the winner, are at best baffling and at worst completely inexplicable. Here I’ll [...]




Hollywood Unhinged – Will Ferrell and the Tears of Oscar

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Feeling sorry for Will Ferrell and why Oscar prefers crying to a good belly laugh I feel a little sorry for Will Ferrell. No, it’s not the succession of box-office hits, the staggering star salary or the house in the Hollywood hills that’s probably quite spacious with a pretty decent-sized garage. Because let’s face it, [...]




For Your Consideration: The Big Films at this Year’s BAFTA Awards

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When we look at the names up for Best Film at this year’s BAFTA awards what is evident and of particular interest is the absence of a clear favourite. Last year The King’s Speech picked up an unusual amount of momentum and there was no huge surprise when the envelopes were opened and Messrs Firth [...]




Five Fantastic BAFTA Brochure Covers Depict the 2012 ‘Best Film’ Category

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The lovely people at BAFTA have given us the honour of debuting these five rather brilliant brochure covers for the upcoming awards next Sunday 12th February. The five covers have been designed by Eda Akaltun & StudioSmall (heartagency.com & studiosmall.com) and depict the five movies that have been nominated in the Best Film category at [...]




The Box-Office – The Cloons Pulls in the Crowds but Is Pipped To The Post by War Horse

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It’s been a more successful week than I thought. But only just. There’s been highs (The Descendants), lows (Like Crazy) and The Grey did so okay for itself that I’ll hardly mention it throughout. Yes it’s been an entirely average week at the box-office, so set your sights low and read on, because d’you know [...]




Results Rundown: The Help Takes Top Prizes At The SAG Awards, Throwing The Oscars Open?

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Whilst we were sleeping last night, the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were held out in L.A., one of a handful of awards ceremonies that have proven useful in the past in the predictions ahead of the Academy Awards, coming this year on 26th February. Tate Taylor’s The Help had four nominations, and took [...]




Exclusive Extended Featurette: George Clooney & Director Alexander Payne Talk The Descendants

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We’ve been given this absolutely fantastic extended featurette which is simply George Clooney and Director Alexander Payne talking about The Descendants but it’s so much more than that as they touch on their own experiences on movies and some of their favourite actors and experiences in their own careers. The featurettes 12 minute featurette focuses [...]




Exclusive Interview: Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of The Descendants

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Author Kaui Hart Hemming has seen her highly-praised debut novel The Descendants turned into an equally celebrated (and now potential multiple Oscar-winning) Hollywood picture. The story of a workaholic father in Hawaii who is forced to take the emotional reins following a tragic incident in his family, the material was powerful enough to coax Sideways [...]




The Box-Office – War Horse Gallops To Victory For The Second Week In A Row

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Well it’s awards season again and thus this week’s top ten is an entirely polarising affair. We’ve got the great and the good of awards season doing well for themselves but it’s the shouty, awards hungry, For Your Consideration! failures that litter the outskirts of the chart that are the real news this week. But [...]




The Descendants Review

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Director Alexander Payne returns to the big screen (after an almost eight-year absence) with a somewhat unexpectedly gentle comedy-drama which is free from the biting satire and humorous cynicism which characterised his earlier work, and offers his most heart-felt feature to date. George Clooney is Matt King, a work-obsessed lawyer from a prominent and successful [...]




George Clooney Is All Smiles In New Poster For The Descendants

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Hotly tipped to go to the Oscars next month, we’ve got only a few days left before Alexander Payne’s The Descendants comes to cinemas here in the UK. We got the first trailer for the film back in May last year, and it’s been something to look forward to ever since. The beautiful first poster [...]




Fantastic New Clip And Two Featurettes For Alexander Payne’s The Descendants With George Clooney

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It’s been a little while since we last saw something from George Clooney’s The Descendants, but it certainly hasn’t dropped off the radar, and it’s one of the films I’m most looking forward to seeing next year. With George Clooney’s The Ides of March having now its release, making a fantastic impression, we can now [...]




Alexander Payne Already Has Next Directorial Venture Planned With Wilson

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In what could prove to be the perfect coming together of two distinct and celebrated voices, Alexander Payne is planning on bringing the world of writer/artist Daniel Clowes back to the big screen once more. The Sideways auteur will breathe cinematic life into Clowes’ graphic novel Wilson (scripted by the writer himself), with filming due [...]




George Clooney Needs His Daughter’s Help In New Clip From The Descendants

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We saw the first trailer and poster for one of Alexander Payne’s next directorial effort, The Descendants, back in May, and they were both absolutely fantastic. Then last week we got the first clip from the film, in which George Clooney met his daughter’s boyfriend for the first time, and this has now been followed up [...]