Cagey about Batman supervillain role

Nicholas Cage is losing credibility as quickly as he is hair these days. So he may not be high on director Christopher Nolan’s list of potential Batman 3 super-villains – if and when he constructs one. But the self-confessed comic book nut Cage has a hankering for a role in the next installment of The [...]

Crowe adds weight to Robin Hood movie

I really enjoyed Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves when it was released in 1991.  It was chock full of that swash-buckling action and adventure you would expect from a movie about the legendary hero, but also featured enough new elements to keep things fresh and interesting. However, there was just something not quite right about [...]

Farrelly Brothers line up new Stooges

ODD cast for a movie about odd characters. I guess it makes perfect sense. Of course I’m talking about the the biggest news out of Hollywood yesterday, that being Sean Penn signed to star in The Farrelly Brothers’ Three Stooges, and Jim Carrey and Benicio De Toro set to join him. According to The Hollywood [...]

5 Badass Non-Human Heroes (v Predator)

Predator is said to be taking on the poncy residents of 19th century England in a new film Pride and Predator. Obviously a piss-take (and being promoted that way) on the classic Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice, it goes into production later this year and is being produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures. While it’s [...]

Warner Pine-ing for a Green Lantern

Chris Pine could be about to join Christian Bale and Sam Worthington as the next Harrison Ford. Not due to the fact they are going out with a stick figure – though I’m not quite sure who they are with to be honest (and I don’t really care). But, because they may all be involved [...]

Doomsday has all the right ingredients

Neil Marshall’s Doomsday could be likened to a good stew. What he’s done is got a big pot and thrown in large amounts of Escape from New York and the Mad Max sequels The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome, before topping it off with dashes of 28 Days Later, Resident Evil, Aliens and The Warriors. Oh, and there’s a [...]

Cameron’s Avatar promises the world

I’ve just gotten a little more excited about James ‘I’m the King of the World’ Cameron’s comeback extravaganza, Avatar, which will be released in cinemas on Earth this December. The film is said to be taking the art of film-making to new heights with the use of a whole bunch of really complicated-sounding, state-of-the-art special [...]

7 Actors to Play MacGyver – Vote Now

MULLETS are back in fashion, so why not MacGyver. Though, I’m not sure the cult television character renowned for his inventiveness and bad hair was ever really in fashion was he? Regardless, the man who got out of jams for eight years on the small screen (1985-92) is about to make a comeback – on the [...]

Olga an ‘animal’ in new Marshall movie

Now here’s a low-profile film that looks highly promising – for a few reasons, behind and certainly in front of the camera. Described as a relentless action-adventure set in the year 117AD, Centurion is from up and coming writer-director Neil Marshall, the man behind cult hits Dog Soldiers (2002), The Descent (2005) and Doomsday (2008). But, [...]

9 Spoof Movies That Are Actually Funny

SPOOF and movie are two words that just don’t go together these days. A succession of downright deplorable productions that have been served up like a quickly slapped together Big Mac have given the entire genre a bad name. They just get worse and worse. In 2008 we were fed the terrible trifecta of Disaster [...]

Ironman 2 casting simply gold

This Ironman 2 cast just keeps getting better and better. First it was Don Cheadle joining Robert Downey Jnr in the follow-up to the smash hit of 2008, then Sam Rockwell, and now Mickey Rourke and Scarlet Johannson. I personally reckon that’s a pretty awesome line-up. Oh, and Gwenyth Paltrow will be there as well, [...]

Marvel’s not so super movie delay

The years are certainly flying by fast. A little too fast if you’re over at Marvel. The comic book heavyweight, through its own Marvel Studios, has been cranking up its summer blockbuster film releases in recent times, highlighted by 2008′s double of Ironman and The Incredible Hulk. Those two films, while impressive in their own [...]

From rag newspapers to Batman riches

We all try and make a grab for readers. Gotta get those hits. But some media outlets stoop so low it’s ridiculous. I probably shouldn’t even be writing about this, but it’s more to get it off my chest than following suit and prostituting this blog with an absurd story (though I couldn’t resist creating a [...]

13 Movie Shootings Designed To Shock

Let me start by saying this post is not for the faint-hearted. The scenes can be quite confronting. Then again, they’re only movies for God’s sake. And such was their impact that they also went a long way towards ensuring their movie became one of the greats of all-time. They are designed to blow you away - as [...]

Coen Brothers’ Burn so hot right now

How good are those Coen Brothers? Well, bloody good, and I mean bloody. After what seemed a mid-career crisis when they were buying red sports cars and making films like Intolerable Cruelty (2003) and The LadyKillers (2004), the Brothers are not just back but taking their unquestioned brilliance to new levels. Proving to be the curent day masters [...]

New trailers promise awesome action

That festive season that is ‘blockbuster season’ is about to hit us. And if you needed ay reminder there was of course the early release of Watchmen (which I haven’t been able to see just yet) as well as a host of big previews. Some of which probably give away a little too much in [...]

12 Stages in the Evolution of Watchmen the Movie

One of my favorite web pages to visit is the trivia section for a particular movie on The Internet Movie Database. I know, I know, what a geek!    But, hear me out. Alot of times it will provide information about that film’s development – what director was earmarked to helm it before he got [...]

Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla music to our ears

Madonna divorcing Guy Ritchie is probably the best thing to happen to the Brit gangster movie genre since …well, Guy Ritchie.

Spirits high with news of Ghostbusters 3

It appears as though the Ghostbusters are about to power up the old proton packs and get their names back on speed dial. Twenty years after they were last in action, the team is preparing for its long-awaited return to the big screen – most likely in 2010. One of the original members, Dan Aykroyd, has [...]

Freddy to wake from Nightmare slumber

Everything old is new again in Hollywood – especially when it comes to horrors. Cult ’70s and ’80s slasher flicks being rebooted is becoming the norm. First it was the daddy of them all, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2005), then came Halloween (2007), then the recently released Friday the 13th and My Bloody Valentine, and [...]

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