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Trailers and more trailers

Published on 2007-04-30 13:20:00

So we have all the summer fun and excitement to look forward too with some seriously big movies being turned out for this summer. First up that we cant not mention is Spider man 3. I saw the trailer on the big screen the other week and i really didn't even think i would like it, but i tell you its a great trailer, it really sucks you in even if your a unwilling victim. Everything you need to know about Spider man 3 is already out there so im not going to go into any real depth except to say

Review - Severance

Published on 2007-04-23 13:59:00

Team building weekends away get a nice little promotion with the British movie Severance. We follow the trails of a team from a government weapons company who take a nice European vacation to a woodland lodge retreat. On the way to the lodge the coach driver stops as the road is blocked here we see the team dynamics come into play as the crew bicker and argue leaving them to find their own way to their team building accommodation.Severance calls on some cliché horror shocker moments and is pl

Oceans 13 Trailers & Teasers

Published on 2007-04-09 04:08:00

Oceans 13 release date is getting closer and the trailer gives us some hints and teasers to the story. Based once again in Las Vegas hopefully this will be a superior sequel than Oceans 12, which was an average movie and not quite up to par compared to the superb original film.Danny Ocean and the 11's crew are back with some new cast members, Benedict is on side this time as the gang work at hustling Al Pacino's character. This time round the motivation is revenge rather than money, Reuben (El

News - Daywatch dubbed and due to land

Published on 2007-04-03 14:58:00

The long overdue english language version of Daywatch is due out soon. For those not in the know its the sequel to Nightwatch or Nochnoy dozor, the highest grossing Russian movie ever, and with good reason too, its a pretty solid inventive movie that will appeal to vampire fans sci fi and fantasy fans. In its favour it has flair, style and good acting with a whole heaping of weird and the occult thrown in for good mearsure. Its loosly based of the novel of the same name, just like the first m

Review - Smokin Aces

Published on 2007-03-29 17:04:00

Smokin Aces, I always type it Smoking Aces, but it’s definitely Smokin. There is actually a lot of smoke in this movie, guns too, but the Aces come from the man who everyone wants, Buddy 'Aces' Israel. Everyone from hit men to the FBI want to get hold of this Las Vegas showman turned gangers snitch, but who will get to him first. The Main characters are the FBI who needs to get their man to prosecute various mobsters involved in various dodgy deals, the supporting cast as the various hit me

More Evil in residence

Published on 2007-03-20 14:30:00

The upcoming Resident Evil trilogy closing movie keeps catching my eye, and this trailer certainly did, with a quick nod to Planet of the Apes, we get to see Milla Jovonovich jumping, kicking and as captured above generally being a badass zombie killer who is followed everywhere by flames.The new trailer is best watched over at the Apple site where you can choose your quicktime quality, its far superior to the trailer on the official site so go take a look.Link to the Resident Evil Extinction tr

Review - The Marine

Published on 2007-03-19 14:37:00

The Marine, it’s a pretty simple title for a movie and it’s a pretty simple movie, Marine fights for his country does a rescue mission with no authority and gets honourably discharched from the military as a reward. The Marine then arrives back home where his wife decides they should take a road trip after fitting back into society isn’t proving easy for said marine. Bad move they get caught up in something they shouldn’t have, involving a gang of robbers.The Movie stars John Cena as t

Review - Babel

Published on 2007-03-12 12:12:00

Babel is a strange movie, it doesnt follow the typical hollywood movie style, it does have some shocking moments and it does seem very realistic. However it also walks the line of being shocking for the sake of being shocking and also taking itself to seriously at points. However the music and use of sound is excellent and it does manage to help define the various stories.We have no one star in the film but the ones you will recognize are Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. the rest of the actors a

Review - The Devil Wears Prada

Published on 2007-03-08 15:51:00

The Devil Wears Prada is not the kind of movie i would normally watch, Running at a time of 109 minutes its not to long and its not to short. If you've ever worked with a complete maniac boss before you will feel some empathy for the lead character Andy Sachs played by Anne Hathaway. The devil in the title is played by Meryl Streep and she does play it well in the right tone for the movie. The Film itself is set as you should be able to tell from the title in the cutthroat world of fashion whe

News - 28 Weeks Nearer

Published on 2007-03-06 13:58:00

Fox Atomic has a new 28 Weeks later clip up on their website. It’s mostly pre production footage but still gives you a nice little glimpse into what we might be getting soon. 28 Weeks later has a release date of the 11th May, it’s really not that far off launching. As mentioned before the same creative team is behind this movie with Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and Andrew Macdonald, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directing. The story this time centres around the clean up process by the US Ar

News - More Resident Evil Extinction

Published on 2007-03-04 10:35:00

Resident Evil : Extinction now has its own trailer site with suitably annoying desert sound effects. This is the 3rd and final Resident Evil movie in what has been a successful series. Milla Jovonovich is back reprising her role as Alice, this time she has super human crazy person powers because of the biogenic testing that the Umbrella Corporation has been doing on her. The Movie picks up 4 years after Apocalypse where the Virus is still breaking out and survivors are forced to travel in arm

Rewind - For a Few Dollars More

Published on 2007-03-01 14:32:00

Part of the Fistful of Dollars trilogy, for a Few Dollars more is a classic spaghetti western movie. You've got to love a character who actually has no name and who plays that character? Yes Clint Eastwood does and all by speaking as few words as humanly possible. It's the second move in the trilogy and as such you don’t have all the characters yet that are revealed in finale The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. You only have the good played by Clint eastwood, and the bad Eagle eyes played by

Review - The Wicker Man

Published on 2007-02-27 12:42:00

The original Wicker Man movie starring Edward Woodwood is a cult classic, so i was excited when i heard a remake was being made. The Wicker Man remake is vastly changed from the original obviously its been brought a little more up to date and the star this time is Nicholas Cage playing officer Edward Malus. The basic story line follows Nicholas Cage's character who after failing to save a girl and her mother he gets depressed and haunted, out of the blue a letter from an old girlfriend arrives

News - The Oscars 2007

Published on 2007-02-26 13:27:00

So this is the big one of the award ceremonies, the Oscars, and this is the 79th in 2007. The Oscars if its on tv in the UK is shown as some ridiculous hour in the morning, and if you have work to do on Monday its not easy to stay up to watch, so i didn't get to see it, but a quick look at the news this morning helped me to catch up. Lets start off with the list of who won what.Actor in a Supporting Role - Alan Arkin for Little Miss SunshineVisual Effects - Pirates 2Animated Feature - Happy Fe

News - More Grindhouse details

Published on 2007-02-23 11:46:00

More of the double bill B movie frenzy from two cool directors Rodriquez and Tarantino, yes its Grindhouse. So sticking to form we have Tarantino using well known actors who haven’t had the best run of luck lately, and im sure were going to have some fast pacing and some styles tunes from both movies.Well the webpage is jam packed with lots of little touches that will keep you entertained for a short while, quite short actually im not a big fan of most movie site styles. Personally I prefer

Review - Children of Men

Published on 2007-02-20 13:40:00

Children of Men completely crept up on me, a really interesting idea and story. With some solid visuals, good cast and characters and sets. The story in Children of Men is based in the future and follows the character of name name played by Clive Owen as he tries to do what he feels is right. This would be a much more ordinary story, if the future was not childless where the youngest person is 30 something, and humans are infertile and unable to have children. So Freedom fighter Julianne Moore w

Rewind - Pitch Black

Published on 2007-02-19 12:44:00

Pitch Black turned up out of the blue in 2000 with one of the best trailers i've seen to date. It was minimal, visually stark and left you wanting more and wanting to know what happened to the alcohol fuelled flame blowing man as he was surrounded in the darkness.Pitch Black follows the story of a passenger space vessel that is carrying a variety of passengers from traders and collectors to criminals and bounty hunters. When the vessel loses its flight path its spirals and crashes on a strang

News - Hot Fuzz everywhere

Published on 2007-02-15 15:51:00

Hot Fuzz is everywhere at the moment, on the tv, in the news and getting rewiewed. Yes it’s been a short time coming round between the time I first heard about this movie, and its actual release date, that makes a nice change. The official Hot Fuzz site has some clips and trailers on there for you to take a look at involving fence jumping and other shenanigans. Reviews are surfacing now and the general consensus is that Hot Fuzz is as good as the expectations for it. After Spaced and Shaun o

News - Bafta Film Awards 2007 Winners

Published on 2007-02-12 13:21:00

THE ACADEMY FELLOWSHIPAnne V CoatesTHE MICHAEL BALCON AWARD for Outstanding British Contribution to CinemaNick DaubenyFILMTHE QUEEN - Andy Harries/Christine Langan/Tracey SeawardTHE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the YearTHE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND - Andrea Calderwood/Lisa Bryer/Charles Steel/Kevin Macdonald/Peter Morgan/Jeremy BrockTHE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer in their First Feature FilmANDREA ARNOLD (Director)

News - Bafta Film Awards 2007

Published on 2007-02-12 13:21:00

So once again the Bafta Film awards are hosted by Jonathon Ross, the Bafta awards are always interesting to watch, partly to see what outrageous things are said by the host and also who walks away with the winning statues. I watched the show last night and tried to write this while i was watching, I have missed a couple of categories out, but the post below this one has the full list of winners from this years Bafta AwardsFirst up was the award for the oustanding British movie of the year, won

News - Cinema Release dates 09th Feb 07

Published on 2007-02-08 12:40:00

Here are the UK movie releases in cinemas near you from the 09 February 2007.Charlotte's WebHannibal RisingEpic MovieAnd here are the US movie releases in cinemas near you from the 09 February 2007Hannibal RisingNorbitThe Lives of OthersTechnorati tags movie releases cinema releases film release date

Rewind - High Fidelity

Published on 2007-02-08 12:38:00

High Fidelity is a movie based on a Nick Hornby novel starring John Cusack. The film follows Rob Gordon played by John Cusask and is a perfect movie for him he does this role so well. I did enjoy the movie but I wasn’t sure if I would intially not the kind of movie i would normally go out of my way to see. There are no explosions, no guns, no kung fu and no car chases, so what is there for the average movie goer. Well it’s all about relationships just like the other well known book to f

News - The Messengers Box office no 1 US

Published on 2007-02-05 13:00:00

Just released in the US and The Messengers is box office no 1. Directed by two brothers Danny and Oxide Pang who have made a string of movies together none of which i can pronounce correctly im afraid, but im sure in the future i'll be delving into some of their work. The reviews for The Messengers so far have been mixed with it coming accross as only an average horror thriller that had more potential but its a pretty short 84 minutes long.The story follows the Soloman family as they renovate

News - Uk region 2 Dvd Releases 06

Published on 2007-02-05 12:28:00

Here are the dvd releases for for next weekUK - Region 2 Dvd Releases 05th February 2007London VoodooSnow CakeThe Best Man The Devil Wears PradaSource - www.dvdtimes.co.ukTechnorati tags dvd release dvd releases

News - US Region 1 Dvd Releases 06th Feb 2007

Published on 2007-02-04 11:14:00

Here are the dvd releases for next weekUS - Region 1 Dvd Releases06th February 2007Flags of Our FathersHollyRunning with ScissorsGrudge 2 unrated directors cutThe Science of SleepTrust the ManSource - www.dvdtimes.co.ukTechnorati tags dvd release dvd releases