The World Premiere of TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON has just happend in Moscow and it looks like Paramount footed the bill to get most of the cast over there including, Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich and Tyrese Gibson, as well as director Michael Bay and producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian Bryce. The film opened the 33rd Mosco...
Emma Stone is a vicious talent, who seems to be popping up in everything nowadays. Getting everyone’s attention with a black eye in Super Bad, making us all remember how fast rumours spread in high school with Easy A and soon she will be twirling golden locks through her fingers as Gwen Stacey in the new Spiderman. It was for me, however her memorable performance as the “dont give a cr...
In 1975 action specialist Sam Peckinpah directed James Caan and Robert Duvall in the violent thriller THE KILLER ELITE. In 2011 newcomer Gary McKendry directs Jason Statham and Clive Owen in the remake. The original movie was about internal strife in the CIA. In this English take on the story, the British Secret Service is the agency with the lethal human resource challenges. Much of t...
In KUNG FU PANDA 2, Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po’s new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. He must look to his past and uncover the secrets of ...
If you’re a Western Australian filmhead, then you will have heard about comic duo Henry and Aaron and their role in making the first situation comedy produced in this state. Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann are two up and coming filmmakers who won the national Movie Extra Webfest competition last year. Their prize was a $50,000 budget to write and produce a series of seven webisodes to be...
Filming on Relativity Media’s comedy action-adventure UNTITLED SNOW WHITE began on Monday, June 20, 2011, under the direction of Tarsem Singh (Immortals, The Cell). UNTITLED SNOW WHITE stars Julia Roberts and breakout star Lilly Collins (The Blind Side). An evil Queen (Roberts) steals control of a kingdom, and an exiled princess (Collins) enlists the help of seven resourceful rebel...
Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy’s absolute submission. The unsettling task starts to bleed into Lucy’s daily life and she develops an increasing need to know what happens to her when she is asleep. Its a rarity I find when the cin...
The story concerns Emma (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter (Jim Sturgess) two students at university in Edinburgh in 1988. The film is about the next 20 years of their friendship. The romantic drama will be directed by Lone Scherfig. The Danish director is best known internationally for her 2009 film AN EDUCATION. And yes, Hathaway does an (English) accent. And so does American actress Patricia Clarkson. ...
The May 2010 firing of actress Megan Fox from the TRANSFORMERS movie series is one of the more infamous showbiz sackings of recent times. The exact events of this tale have been obscured by the usual game of claim and counter-claim that has taken place in the entertainment media. TRANSFORMERS director Michael Bay claimed he fired Fox. Fox claimed she left the franchise to pursue other projects. Ho...
Supanova Sydney has come and gone for 2011 and it proved to be a popular and entertaining show. I managed to attend and check out the exhibition floor along with some of the panels and autograph booths, which were in full swing for most of the weekend. Saturday turned out to be a day with huge crowds for the morning and most of the afternoon, the convention floor was filled with various booths mak...
Starz has green lit a live action adaptation of the Japanese animation show “noir”. I am not a huge fan of animae, however, a show about undercover female assassins kicking all kinds of ass in a covert mission to find out about their past and the connection to another shady organization, sounds pretty awesome. Do you want to know what is more awesome? Sam (Evil Dead, Spiderman, ...
Star racecar Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage. Starring the voice talents of Larry the cable guy, Owen Wilson, Michael Caine and Eddie Izzard. Cars 2 was a lot of fun. I could easily spot the voices, especial...
