By Richard Haridy May 15, 2013 There are a multitude of sordidly fascinating directions a biopic on Alfred Hitchcock could take. So, when Sacha Gervasi‘s flat and frothy Hitchcock concludes, it’s inevitably frustrating to find this film takes such a conventional path. Hitchcock opens right when the great man was at the top of his game, having just released the gloriously […]
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Jack Bauer to Live Another Day; 24 returning to TV in 2014
May 15, 2013 
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Jack Bauer will return after all, and not in the much rumoured feature film version of 24 but a special limited 12 episode series titled 24: Live Another Day. According to The Hollywood Reporter, original showrunner Howard Gordon is set to produce this special season, finding the time between writing episodes of his latest hit […]
Read moreFirst look at Paul Giamatti as Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
May 15, 2013 0 Comments
Marc Webb, director of The Amazing Spiderman 2, recently tweeted a first-look picture of Paul Giamatti as the villainous Rhino (and he sure looks angry). Rhino is famously described a one of Spiderman’s “dimmest villains,” an Eastern European thug who gets some superhuman powers and goes a little psycho. Whilst the photo Webb tweeted doesn’t […]
Read moreAndrew Garfield signs on for Scorsese’s Silence
May 9, 2013 0 Comments
It’s all system’s go on Martin Scorsese’s long gestating passion project Silence, as Variety reports Andrew Garfield has been signed for the leading role. Garfield will star as a young Portuguese Jesuit who is sent to Japan in 1638; a time when Christian missionaries were being persecuted in the region. Legendary Japanese actor Ken Watanabe […]
Read moreTrailer Debut: The Butler
May 9, 2013 0 Comments
Lee Daniels is a strange filmmaker, and, from the looks of this recently released trailer, the strangest thing about his latest film, The Butler, is how conventional it appears. Forest Whitaker stars as Eugene Allen in this true story of one man who served as a butler in the White House to eight separate presidents […]
Read moreI am woman – Laurence Anyways review
May 7, 2013 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy May 7, 2013 French-Canadian Xavier Dolan is truly the definition of a wunderkind. Only 23 years old, he’s already made three critically acclaimed feature films, all of which premiered at Cannes. His latest, Laurence Anyways – a nearly three-hour opus telling the story of a transsexual man in the late 1980s and […]
Read moreKill for love – Sightseers review
April 30, 2013 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy April 30, 2013 Ben Wheatley is one of the most promising young directors to come out of the UK of late. His first feature, Down Terrace, was a sharp, tense, and comic chamber piece, whilst his following film, Kill List, was simply the best, most horrifying genre flick this writer had seen […]
Read moreFirst official images from The Amazing Spider-Man 2
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
The first official image of Jamie Foxx in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has been released and it’s the grand spectacle of Django himself with a big, fat comb-over. Foxx is set to play the villain, Electro, in the upcoming sequel. Earlier in the month pictures taken from the set were leaked onto the internet showing […]
Read moreBen Stiller sets screenwriter to work on Dodgeball 2
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
The Hollywood Reporter recently revealed that a sequel to 2004′s Dodgeball is in the works. We are assuming it will be titled Dodgeball 2: Dodge Harder. Little is known about the project at this stage, but Ben Stiller’s production company have tasked Clay Tarver to pen the screenplay. Tarver has very little produced screenwriting output, […]
Read moreChurn after reading – Butter review
April 16, 2013 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy April 16, 2013 Butter is a dark satirical comedy set in the highly relatable world of competitive butter carving. When Hugh Jackman appeared as an all-American used car salesman, I realised I was watching something special. Not special in a good way, mind you, but special in a ‘why the hell does […]
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