Archive for June, 2008

30 Jun

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army: Official movie photos

Not that you need a reason to see this upcoming sequel to the excellent Hellboy (starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair), but here are some photos (courtesy of Filmofilia.com)

30 Jun

The First Quantum of Solace Trailer Released today

After too long of waiting, it’s up. Watch, enjoy and comment.

So what do you think? Does it look better than Casino Royale? What about Gemma Arterton: is that ginger hair off-putting?

29 Jun

Romancing the Stone: a £3 DVD Review

What a great deal of films ignore in this day and age is chemistry. It is true that there are some exceptions. Mr and Mrs Smith (albeit predictable) starred two people (Jolie and Pitt) who simply had the right sparks flying. It is important then, to consider some classic films that show chemistry at its [...]

29 Jun

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A re-release review

Now for those diehard fans of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo) it might be best to avert your eyes. This iconic movie (with that very iconic soundtrack) is honoured with a 100% positive review rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Of the 49 reviews counted, every single one of [...]

28 Jun

Dragonball the Movie: New Photos online

Someone, somewhere is excited about this upcoming movie starring Chow Yun-Fat, James Marsters (Spike from Buffy), Justin Chatwin (S.Darko) and Emmy Rossum (The Day after Tomorrow). For those people, here are some more photos of posters, and scans for your viewing pleasure:

28 Jun

Saw 5 Teaser poster released

Another year and another Saw due out around Halloween. The fact is Tobin Bell’s character (Jigsaw) died in Saw 3. How on earth are they going to continually explain his appearence in the many more sequels (I am sure) that are yet to come. For most of us though, explaining Jigsaw’s many plans is pure [...]

27 Jun

A collection of movies that need to be made!

In the last few years we have been treated to untold amounts of sequels. What we really want though is new films to whet our appetites. Below is a suggestion for films that should be made and films that we were promised and have yet to surface. Let’s have a go at Hollywood for not [...]

27 Jun

Wanted: A 4 out of 10 Movie Review: Is it The Matrix 4?

In the last 3 months, the world has been inundated with promotional trailers and interviews for the film Wanted. This is Timur Bekmambetov’s 8th film following the reportedly excellent Nightwatch series. It has become clear from the promotional bumph that this film included some quite interesting effects showing bullets being bent and lots of silly [...]

25 Jun

The Incredible Hulk (2008): A 4 out of 10 Movie Review

Yet another film and yet another desperate time in New York City / Los Angeles / any other city in the world as long as it’s in the U.S. Yes that’s right, we in the last few months of 2008 are introduced to Ed Norton as a potentially angry man, Robert Downey Jr. as a [...]

20 Jun

M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening: A 4 out of 10 Movie Review

Well another two years have gone by since the mediocrity that was Lady in the Water and M. Night Shyamalan has made another film to confuse and baffle us all. Let’s look at the legendary director’s history. He started with The Sixth Sense which amazed us with its fantastic twist. Unbreakable followed this fine film [...]

19 Jun

The latest collection of The Spirit posters.

Is it just me, or are all of the upcoming movie The Spirit’s posters starting to look like soft porn?  Either that, or they have taken a lesson from the wonderbra poster starring Eva Herzigová. That is, if the posters make cars crash, then their marketing campaign is working. The Spirit is due to be [...]

19 Jun

The Titanic 1996: No! Not that one! A £1 DVD Review

When I say the word Titanic, you’ll think of the sunken ship, of 1912 or a few films that portrayed this (and subsequent) events. Okay, you may think of a naked Kate Winslet and be two steps away from being a pervert. What you will not think of is a miniseries starring Catherine Zeta Jones, [...]

18 Jun

Rare photographs that show male actors crying

How Sam Taylor-Wood manages to get these actors in tear is beyond me. Some of the emotions are acted and some are not apparently. Can you guess which tears are genuine?
The Stars include:

Daniel Craig
Dustin Hoffman
Ed Harris
Forest Whitaker
Gabriel Byrne
Jude Law
Laurence Fishburne
Sam Shepard
Kris Kristofferson
Steve Buscemi
Willem Dafoe
Ben Stiller
Michael Madsen
Benicio del Torro
Sean Penn
Tim Roth
Paul Newman
Ryan Gosling
Woody Harrelson
Hayden Christiansen

All images [...]

13 Jun

Disaster Movie: Pics and a poster released

I can’t stand spoofs these days. for some reason, they are all made by the same people and do very little to achieve what is imperative in a comedy: “MAKE US LAUGH”. I have held on to these for some time, but I think I might as well share with you a poster and the [...]