Megan Fox is reportedly in line to take a role in Judd Apatow’s follow-up to Knocked Up. The as-yet untitled spin-off to the 2007 comedy hit will see Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann return as the slightly crazed pairing of Pete and Debbie. Meanwhile Deadline are also reporting that Albert Brooks is set to join […]

Veteran British character actor Michael Gough has passed away aged 94 after a lengthy battle with illness, having enjoyed a career spanning seven decades and over 150 roles. Born in Kuala Lumpur in 1916, Gough first appeared in the 1946 TV movie Androcles and the Lion before making the transition to the silver screen two […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the third of a five part feature… read parts one and two. When he was approached by Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who wanted to revise his signature role of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961), Martin Scorsese was […]

Following on from the dismal US opening of the Robert Zemeckis-produced motion-capture animation Mars Needs Moms (which banked just $6.9m in its opening weekend from a reported budget of $150m), THR have announced that The Walt Disney Company have called time on Zemeckis’ planned remake of the bonkers Beatles animation Yellow Submarine. According to sources […]

Across the Forest: Tales from Transylvania, 2009. Directed by Justin Blair and Matthew Vincent. SYNOPSIS: Two American filmmakers journey to the mountains of Transylvania, where ancient beliefs in the supernatural can still be found. “I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest stories from the world of movie superheroes… The marketing campaign for Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming superhero prequel X-Men: First Class continues to deliver a rollercoaster of a ride, with opinion seemingly see-sawing from one week to the next. First up we had the disappointment of the initial character reveals […]

Award-winning writer Neil Gaiman, whose works Coraline and Stardust have been turned into films in recent years, has signed on to write the scripts for an epic $300 million series of 3D feature films adapted from the ancient Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. The classic 16th century fantasy follows the misadventures of the […]

The Adjustment Bureau, 2011. Directed by George Nolfi. Starring Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Michael Kelly and Terence Stamp. SYNOPSIS: An ambitious politician falls in love with an enchanting ballerina but mysterious forces are determined to keep them apart and the agents of fate – the Adjustment Bureau – forbid him to […]

Jameson Cult Film Club screening of Monsters (2010) at The Royal College of Surgeons, London, 3rd March, 2011. Written and Directed by Gareth Edwards. Starring Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able. SYNOPSIS: A NASA space probe containing alien spores crashes in Mexico, turning the northern part of the country into a quarantined area known as ‘The […]