3D sci-fi thriller about a group of young Americans visiting Russia when aliens invade earth.Produced by Russian filmmaker TimurBrekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted), the film ‘The Darkest Hour’ promises to differentiate itself from other alien invasion movies by showing the attacks and response from a Russian perspective. Directed by Chris Gorak, ‘The Darkest Hour’ bring...
Deadline approaches for possibly the world’s easiest film-making competition. Got five minutes? Then you can enter! Who would have thought a simple five minute flick shot with your web cam or mobile phone could win you a scholarship to study with the New York Film Academy? Unbelievable but true: Fancy equipment is out and cheap innovation is in for this year’s Cinemagic International F...
Young Adult is a comedy-drama about a woman returning home in order to relive her high school glory years. Mavis is a cynical, successful writer of teenage fiction who returns to her small home town to win back her high school crush: Buddy, now happily married and with kids. Buddy isn’t particularly willing though, and having been roundly despised at school, Mavis doesn&#...
In the early 1970’s during the cold war, the head of british intelligence, Control resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent – a mole. A retired agent is asked by a senior Government figure to investigate a story told to him implying that a mole exists, and ...
Beneath the floorboards of an enormous mansion, set in a overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. The house is occupied by two elderly ladies, unaware of the existence of their miniature tenants. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you, as once seen, little people always have to move on&r...
Fox and Lucasfilm has released five very nice posters for the upcoming 3D Release of Star Wars Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace which is to be released in cinemas on the 9th Feb. Most Star Wars fans dub Episode 1 the worst of the whole series but as you will notice by these posters someone is clearly absent? Maybe the complete lack of Jar Jar Binks will make people think Lucas as Digitally rem...
With the start of a new year comes a new round of conventions to look forward to and one of the foundations of the Australian pop culture convention scene is no doubt the various Supanova tours that occur throughout the year. 2012 is going to be a massive year for Supanova with no less than three separate tours taking place throughout the year. To kick things off we are looking at some of the gues...
So this isn’t technically film related, however it’s Star Wars so we make exceptions. While the prequel trilogy had the last theatrical release several years ago, and there’s no discussion of any future film releases in the franchise, Star Wars is certainly alive and well across a number of other mediums. The current ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ series began in 2008 an...
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures’ three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. The scree...
Despite Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon taking a break from the franchise the Bourne series is continuing this time with rising star Jeremy Renner in the lead role. Renner is currently on screen in the latest instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise, later this year he appears in Joss Whedon’s ‘Avengers’, before the newest Bourne film scheduled to be released in the second h...
Darran and Phil sit down to chat with the stars of The Muppets – Jason Segel and Kermit the Frog. On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world’s biggest Muppet fan, and his friends Gary (Jason Segel) and Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and drill for the oil recently discovered beneath the...
Over the weekend, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the US ABC network released the trailer for the 84th Oscars. The main piurpose of the trailer is to remind us that the ceremony is back in the experienced hands of host Billy Crystal. Last year’s ceremony was deemed to have been somewhat of a flop because hosts Anne Hathaway and particularly James Franco were seen as not u...
