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Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone in Talks to be The DIAMOND GEEZERS
Deadline is reporting that four of the UK's great elder acting statesmen are returning to a life in crime. Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone are in talks to joing Working Title's untitled film about an...
BIG GAME: Things Still Blow Up Good In U.S. Trailer
Hands up, all of you who cannot wait for the U.S. theatrical, digital HD and On Demand release of Jalmari Helander's action flick Big Game? Okay, okay. Put your hands down so I can count the rest of you at...
Now on Blu-ray: LE WEEK-END Captures The Pleasures And Pains Of A Relationship
This is a rare jewel of a movie. Le Week-End follows Nick and Meg, enacted brilliantly by Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, a British couple whose longtime marriage faces a turning point during a weekend in Paris. Directed judiciously by...
Giveaway: Win A LE WEEK-END Blu-ray!
UPDATED 7/11: The giveaway has concluded, and the winner has been notified. Thanks to all who entered. As an antidote to blockbuster season in Hollywood, we have a Blu-ray copy of Le Week-End to give to one reader who is "in...
New To Netflix: Time, Terrorism, Wuxia, And Snowboarding
This week's entry of New To Netflix continues with more time travel. Cinema itself is kind of a time machine, so watch as I contort this notion. Transporting us back to a time and place, or at least an idea...
BIG GAME: Check The First Still Of RARE EXPORTS Director's Latest With Samuel L Jackson
With Finnish director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports) nearing the end of the shoot for his second film - Big Game - word arrives today of new additions to the cast along with the first still from the film featuring Samuel...
Review: CLOSED CIRCUIT, What A Pity About That Government Conspiracy
Percolating without ever boiling over, Closed Circuit is a British conspiracy drama that's content to serve a cup of room-temperature tea, sit back, and shake its head with mild disapproval. What a pity, eh? The title refers to the closed...
Counterpoint Review: CLOUD ATLAS (Shrugged)
Where to begin with Cloud Atlas? I admire the chutzpah of such an unusually expensive film experiment, but how far can admiration of ambition go if the result is so tedious? In his review published during the Toronto International Film...
TIFF 2012 Review: CLOUD ATLAS is Bold, Brash, Epic, and Silly
Bold, brash, epic, and silly, Cloud Atlas is the latest of a slew of big budget sci-fi epics that's likely to find far more detractors than fans of its quirky style.Drawn from a popular book many considered to be "unfilmable," the...
Yes, the New CLOUD ATLAS Trailer Looks Amazing, But ...
Set for its first public screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Cloud Atlas is definitely phenomenal from a visual standpoint. The newly-released trailer swirls through settings that range from the 19th Century to the far future with...
Watch The CLOUD ATLAS Trailer In Glorious High Resolution
When word came out that the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer had teamed up to bring David Mitchell's acclaimed novel The Cloud Atlas to the big screen the general reaction was disbelief. It was widely considered unfilmable, for one thing, too...
THE IRON LADY Review
With the success in recent years of films like The Queen, Frost/Nixon, and The King's Speech, it's hard to fault those who greenlit this big screen portrait of former British PM Margaret Thatcher. You've got a dynamic, polarizing figure and...
Witness The Seoul Of The Future In New CLOUD ATLAS Concept Art
The upcoming big screen adaptation of David Mitchell's sprawling, time hopping novel Cloud Atlas has been much in the news over the last year thanks to its high profile cast, directing team and the unusual manner of its creation. The...
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS Review
Slender in story yet nourishing to the soul -- and very, very funny -- Arthur Christmas marks a number of "firsts" for Aardman Animations. It's their first feature in five years, their first in 3D, and their first under...
THE CLOUD ATLAS Gets Smaller But No Less Complex
What should have been a run of the mill production start report over at The Hollywood Reporter this morning ended up being a fair bit more interesting thanks to some choice comments by Cloud Atlas producer Stefan Ardnt.Based on the...
Bae Doona Joining CLOUD ATLAS
Let it not be said that Hollywood doesn't look elsewhere for talent to utilize in its big budget movies. In this case it's South Korea and actress Bae Doona. According to news site Sports Chosun (via Soompi) the actress is...
Trailer For Upcoming Aardman Animated Film ARTHUR CHRISTMAS
Aardman Studio, best known for its WALLACE & GROMIT series of films, has a new project! Titled ARTHUR CHRISTMAS, it is an animated family comedy in 3D that reveals Santa's secret high-tech operations at the North Pole. The voice...
