>The King’s Speech is on track to take home the big awards at this month’s Oscar ceremony following its coronation at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film picked up Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and star Colin Firth nabbed Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. Along […]
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Archive | January, 2011
I believe in miracles – Lourdes review
January 31, 2011 
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Lourdes – Starring Sylvie Testud, Lea Seydoux and Elina Lowensohn. Directed by Jessica Hausner. Rated G. By Simon Miraudo. Was it Kierkegaard or Hot Chocolate who spoke the immortal words: ‘I believe in miracles, since you came along … you sexy thing’. Despite the inherent catchiness of that haunting refrain, the people of Earth are […]
Read more>The King’s Speech awarded by DGA
January 31, 2011 0 Comments
>Holster those scissors, Harvey! You may not need to censor The King’s Speech to ensure its Oscar victory. The Directors Guild of America have awarded TKS director Tom Hooper their top prize. In the past decade, eight of the ten winners of the DGA award have gone on to claim Best Director at the Oscars. […]
Read more>Henry Cavill cast as Zack Synder’s Superman
January 31, 2011 3 Comments
>Our international nightmare is over! Director Zack Snyder and producer Christopher Nolan have finally selected the man to star in their Superman reboot. Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today British thespian Henry Cavill will star as their Man of Steel. Here is what Synder had to say about the casting in WB’s press […]
Read moreLike Crazy wins top prize at Sundance
January 30, 2011 0 Comments
The Sundance Film Festival is over for another year. From the 188 feature-length movies and 81 shorts, the following pictures were awarded major prizes by the Sundance Institute. So, here are the indie films to look out for over the next 12 months… Winner of the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was romantic drama Like Crazy. […]
Read more>Saorise Ronan cast in The Hobbit?
January 28, 2011 1 Comment
>Saorise Ronan (Atonement, Hanna) has reportedly been cast in Peter Jackson’s long-delayed adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Although Ronan had long been rumoured to be involved in the project, it was confirmed by casting director Ros Hubbard in an interview with IFTN. Interestingly, Ronan denied being offered a role in The Hobbit only last […]
Read more>Black Swan screenwriter to pen Age of Rage
January 28, 2011 0 Comments
>Black Swan screenwriter (and newly minted Academy Award nominee) Mark Heyman is set to pen the screenplay for sci-fi film Age of Rage according to The Hollywood Reporter. Heyman shares writing credits with John McLaughlin and Andres Heinz for Darren Aronofsky’s recent hit dance thriller Black Swan, which picked up a total of five nominations […]
Read moreUniversal want Kristen Stewart for Snow White; Viggo Mortensen for Huntsmen
January 27, 2011 1 Comment
We heard in December that Relativity Media’s The Brothers’ Grimm: Snow White was in competition with Universal’s Snow White and the Huntsman. Already pitting Charlize Theron and Julia Roberts against one another for the role of the Evil Queen, we wondered then who might Hollywood have pegged for the other two leading roles: the dashing […]
Read more>Life in a Day to premiere on YouTube
January 27, 2011 1 Comment
>Life in a Day – the globally crowdsourced movie produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin MacDonald – is set to make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Fittingly, the film will play on YouTube at the same time, so that the thousands of people from around the world who submitted footage […]
Read moreOld souls – Another Year review
January 27, 2011 0 Comments
Another Year – Starring Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville. Directed by Mike Leigh. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Everybody dies. Not everybody gets old, but most do. Mike Leigh’s Another Year considers both of these tragedies with the humour, heart and pathos fitting for humanity’s two great burdens. It tells the story of […]
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