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With only a few days separating us from our date with The Muppets there’s a distincty felty fever in the air here in the UK and so what better time for this mock trailer to find its way into the spotlight? You may remember that last year The Muppets tickled our ribs with a slew [...]
Fans of Neil LaBute may be pleased to learn that filmmaker Mike Figgis will be breaking his eight year absence from the big screen with Seconds of Pleasure, an adaptation of LaBute’s book of short stories which the playwright/director has penned for the long AWOL British director. What’s more, the Leaving Las Vegas helmer has [...]
Following on from remake Let Me In and the recent Hilary Swank chiller, The Resident, Hammer Films’ third latest cinematic offering, Wakewood, hits cinema screens tomorrow. After the death of their young daughter in the film’s opening scene, Patrick (Aidan Gillen) and Louise (Eva Birthistle) retreat to the countryside and set up shop in the [...]
What’s great about this new trailer for The Wicker Tree is the first thing you hear – the rich and resonant voice of Sir Christopher Lee giving us an immediate link to Robin Hardy’s film The Wicker Man, one of the finest horror films ever made. Lee, who popped up on HeyUGuys a few posts [...]
This Sunday Sir Christopher Lee will receive the BAFTA Fellowship at the Academy’s awards ceremony in London. He joins other recipients such as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Terry Gilliam. Iconic in his role as Count Dracula in numerous Hammer horror film, his career began in 1948 and so far has seen the [...]
Cast your mind back to the Brendan Fraser of yesteryear who did the odd goofy role, while balancing this with winning turns in more serious, high-brow character work (including a powerful performance alongside Ian McKellen in 1998’s Gods and Monsters). Over the last few years, the actor seems to have largely chosen the fluff over [...]
We continue our look back at the classic horror film The Wicker Man, to read the first part of this feature please click here. And so to the late, great Edward Woodward himself, who inspires great confidence as Sergeant Howie, a man whose unfettered dogged persistence defies all who stand before him in his pursuit [...]
My first appointment with “The Wicker Man” had came, rather worryingly, at the tender age of just 14 when it had aired on BBC2 as part of that year’s season of “Moviedrome”. It had all begun with a jazz-tinged, neon lit introduction by cult British director Alex “Repo Man” Cox in which he had informed [...]
With the distaste of Neil LaBute’s dismal remake of The Wicker Man still festering in many peoples mouths, Robin Hardy has come to the rescue with a sequel to his original take on the story. While not necessarily a direct sequel, The Wicker Tree will explore similar themes to the first installment. Posted on the film’s official [...]
Sad news is breaking that TV and movie legend Edward Woodward has died at the age of 79. Though he is perhaps best known for his numerous TV roles, including the awesomeness that was The Equalizer (whose intro is embedded below) Woodward was a versatile actor who bought a stone cold gravitas to each of [...]
