Django Unchained trailer 2 arrives online
As Quentin Tarantino's latest film Django Unchained gears up for a holiday release in North America, Columbia Pictures and The Weinstein Company have debuted the second theatrical trailer from the...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival Review - Sister (2012)
Sister (French: L'enfant d'en haut), 2012. Directed by Ursula Meier.Starring Kacey Mottet Klein, Gillian Anderson and Léa Seydoux.SYNOPSIS:A sad tale about a young boy who financially supports his...
View ArticleMovie Review - Taken 2 (2012)
Taken 2, 2012.Directed by Olivier Megaton.Starring Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen and Rade Šerbedžija.SYNOPSIS:Retired CIA agent Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by a gang seeking...
View ArticleChris Hemsworth offered American Assassin
Deadline is reporting that CBS Films has offered Chris Hemsworth (Thor) a cool $10 million dollars to star in an adaptation of Vince Flynn’s bestselling novel series American Assassin as terrorist...
View ArticleFirst Gangster Squad Poster revealed
The first poster for director Ruben Fleischer’s eagerly anticipated Gangster Squad has been revealed. Courtesy of The Daily Blam, we can have a first look at the rather retro poster featuring the main...
View ArticleSpecial Features - The Amazing Spider-Man Series: Where is it heading?
Martin Deer ponders the future of The Amazing Spider-Man series...Last night I read some rather disconcerting news regarding the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, which is due to begin production next...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival Review - Save Your Legs! (2013)
Save Your Legs!, 2013.Directed by Boyd Hicklin.Starring Stephen Curry, Damon Gameau, Madeleine West, Pallavi Sharda, David Lyons, Brenton Thwaites, Brendan Cowell, Darshan Jariwala, Eddie Baroo and...
View ArticleCarlton Cuse attached to comic book adaptation The Sixth Gun
Carlton Cuse has agreed to develop a new television series for NBC based on the graphic novel series The Sixth Gun. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cuse - the co-creator of Lost - and screenwriter...
View ArticleComic Book Review - Batman #13
Martin Deer on the latest issue of Batman...Spoiler Warning: Plot points will be discussed.Suspenseful. Gripping. Terrifying. Incredible.All of the words above could be used to describe the latest...
View ArticleLincoln Q&A with Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg
Following a special screening in New York last night, director Steven Spielberg and star Daniel Day-Lewis took part in a special Q&A over at Yahoo! Movies, with the duo taking questions from fans...
View ArticleTurning The Page: Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-makers...
Part one of an updated two volume series titled Cinemas of the Other, A Personal Journey with Film-makers from Iran and Turkey explores what it is like to produce movies in two countries where...
View ArticleA new trailer for Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty
Following on from the Academy Award-winning The Hurt Locker, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal are set to return this year with another military-themed offering, Zero Dark Thirty,...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival Review - Here and There (2012)
Here and There (Aquí y allá), 2012.Written and Directed by Antonio Mendez Esparza.Starring Pedro De los Santos, Teresa Ramírez Aguirre, Heidi Laura Solano Espinoza, Néstor Tepetate Medina, Noel Payno...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival - Frankenweenie Press Conference Report
Piers McCarthy reports on the BFI London Film Festival press conference for Tim Burton's Frankenweenie...As conference moderator Chris Hewitt pointed out, Tim Burton is a beloved adopted Londoner. It...
View ArticleRidley Scott talks Prometheus and Blade Runner sequels
Despite mixed reviews, there's little doubt that Ridley Scott's hotly-anticipated return to the sci-fi genre delivered the goods in terms of box office for 20th Century Fox, with the divisive...
View ArticleGangster Squad gets a new trailer
The new trailer for the forthcoming Gangster Squad has been revealed today and it sure does increase the level of anticipation for the Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) directed action film. The trailer...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival Review - Room 237 (2012)
Room 237, 2012.Directed by Rodney Ascher.SYNOPSIS:A documentary examining the enduring legacy of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and the weird and wonderful theories related to the film's subtexts that...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival Review - Antiviral (2012)
Antiviral, 2012.Directed by Brandon Cronenberg.Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell, Douglas Smith, Joe Pingue and Nicholas Campbell.SYNOPSIS:In a celebrity obsessed future, a...
View ArticleBen Affleck to direct Live by Night
Ben Affleck’s love affair with his hometown of Boston continues as Deadline reports that he is in talks with Warner Bros. to write, direct, produce and star in an adaptation of the latest novel by...
View Article56th BFI London Film Festival - Robot & Frank (2012)
Robot & Frank , 2012. Directed by Jake Schreier.Starring Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard, James Marsden and Liv Tyler. SYNOPSIS:An ex-jewel thief is given a robot butler as a gift...
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