Oldboy director Park Chan-wook makes his English-language debut with Stoker, a creepy tale of a demented family starring Aussies Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, and Jacki Weaver. Here’s the official plot synopsis: “After India’s (Wasikowska’s) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally […]
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Archive | September, 2012
Richard Kelly directing Nicolas Cage in bizarre true-tale Amicus
September 28, 2012 
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Donnie Darko director – or, as he’ll forever be known to me, the maestro behind Southland Tales – Richard Kelly will work with Nicolas Cage on the crime thriller Amicus. According to Variety, Kelly will write and direct the true tale, in which Cage plays lawyer Rodney Smolla amidst a bizarre class-action suit. Smolla defended […]
Read moreTrailer Debut: Identity Thief
September 28, 2012 0 Comments
Melissa McCarthy steals Jason Bateman‘s credit card and gets up to some mischief in the trailer for Identity Thief. Bateman’s Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon runs the show here, working from a screenplay by The Hangover Part 2‘s Craig Mazin. Those behind-the-camera credentials don’t necessarily instil blind faith in the project, but the teaming-up of Bateman and McCarthy is certainly an appealing […]
Read moreThe top 10 time travel films
September 28, 2012 1 Comment
The top 10 time travel films. By Simon Miraudo. In Looper, Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets his future self and discovers he looks an awful lot like Bruce Willis. Hair-loss aside, there are worse revelations one could make about their destiny. In the spirit of that picture’s flagrant flexing of the space-time continuum, we’re sharing our top 10 time travel films. Select your […]
Read moreMatt Reeves escaping Twilight Zone for Apes sequel?
September 27, 2012 0 Comments
Director Matt Reeves is off the long-delayed Twilight Zone feature and maybe onto the next Planet Of The Apes instalment, according to Variety. After over a year of various writers failing to bring in a suitable screenplay for a Twilight Zone film, Reeves has decided to move onto another project. The director of Cloverfield and […]
Read moreAngela Lansbury joins Bill Murray for Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
September 27, 2012 0 Comments
According to reports in UK magazine The Gentle Woman (courtesy of The Film Stage), Angela Lansbury has landed a role in Wes Anderson‘s next symmetry-fest, The Grand Budapest Hotel. While Ms Murder She Wrote is quoted as saying it is a small role, she is joining what’s turning into a pretty epic cast that includes the recently […]
Read moreGina Carano set for female Expendables
September 27, 2012 0 Comments
Former MMA fighter and Haywire actress Gina Carano is the first name to be attached to the forthcoming female incarnation of The Expendables, according to Variety. Carano signing on to the film was a no-brainer for producer Adi Shankar who has pitched the as-yet-untitled film as The Female Expendables. Speaking on Carano’s casting he said, […]
Read moreCoen brothers working on Fargo TV show
September 27, 2012 0 Comments
Joel and Ethan Coen’s Fargo is headed to the small screen as FX signs a deal to develop a series based on the Academy Award winning crime drama, Deadline reports. Frances McDormand won a Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson, who unravels a crime thanks to the inept handiwork […]
Read moreTime in its prime – Looper review
September 26, 2012 0 Comments
Looper – Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt. Directed by Rian Johnson. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. There’s a difference between science-fiction that inspires the question ‘What if?’ and science fiction that leaves us monosyllabically muttering ‘Huh?’ A film’s ability to confound is not immediate certification of its brilliance. It’s a revelation, then, […]
Read morePlay It Again – THX 1138
September 25, 2012 0 Comments
Play It Again – THX 1138. Starring Robert Duvall, Maggie McOmie, and Donald Pleasence. Directed by George Lucas. Rated PG. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it […]
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