The Campaign, 2012. Directed by Jay Roach.Starring Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Dylan McDermott, Katherine LaNasa, Sarah Baker, John Lithgow, Dan Aykroyd and Brian Cox. SYNOPSIS: Two corrupt businessmen hatch a plan to have a naive tourism director run against a controversial congressman vying for a fifth term. Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis go […]

Our weekly round up of the latest news stories from the world of screen superheroes, including The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, The Wolverine, Thor: The Dark World, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Hulk, Kick-Ass 2, Wonder Woman and more… There’s just over a week now until the epic conclusion to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight […]

American actor Larry Hagman, best known for his iconic role as the scheming oil tycoon J. R. Ewing in the US TV series Dallas, has passed away at a hospital in Dallas, Texas after battling throat cancer and cirrhosis of the liver. He was 81. The son of Broadway star Mary Martin, Hagman was born […]

Overnight Productions, the producers of Robert Rodriguez’s 2010 Grindhouse spin-off Machete, has filed a $2 million lawsuit against Rodriguez’s Quick Draw Productions that could ultimately block the release of the upcoming sequel Machete Kills. According to Deadline, “Overnight claims that… they were not provided with Texas tax credit information as required under the agreement with […]

Lawrence of Arabia, 1962. Directed by David Lean.Starring Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif. SYNOPSIS: T.E. Lawrence attempts to unite the hostile Arab factions during the First World War in order to lead them to victory over the ruling Turkish Empire. There are many films which are great. There are […]

UK filmmaker Julian Richards (Shiver) has announced that he’s developing a sequel to his 2003 cult hit The Last Horror Movie. Entitled Murder on Demand, the found footage follow-up will see the murderous sociopath Max Parry hitting the streets of Los Angeles to continue his serial killing ways and “deliver a quintessentially English view of […]

In his latest ‘State of the Genre’ column, Martin Deer on the alleged power struggle within Warner Bros., and its impact on the studio’s DC Comics superhero movie output… On November 10th The LA Times reported some rather disconcerting news that things are not well at Warner Bros. Ben Fritz and Meg James report – […]

The Twilight franchise of fictional sparkly vamps and real-life cheating K-Stews has come to an end with the release of the final film in the series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2. It drew a healthy £15.85 million over its opening weekend. “What do you mean you’re Team Rupert Sanders?” A lot of folk […]

Taking a break from all the speculation surrounding possible directors for Star Wars Episode VII for a moment, and Deadline has revealed that Disney has approached screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg to tackle the scripts for Episode VIII and Episode IX, which will presumably be based upon the three-film outline already penned by Episode […]

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 16th – Sunday 18th November 2012… After three fantastic weeks atop the UK box office, it was inevitable that Skyfall’s reign would come to an end this past weekend as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (read our reviews here and […]