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My Week With Marilyn
B-list studded meander through Marilyn's time in Britain, shooting with Larry Olivier.
6th Oct 2012
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Source Code
Plot-heavy Hitchcockian mash-up of 'Quantum Leap' and 'Groundhog Day' from Zowie Bowie.
4th Oct 2012
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Trailer Park: Trailer War
a trailer for a film made up of trailers...
4th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Beauty Inside
Lovely short film from Sundance winner Drake Doremus about a person who wakes up differently every day. Beautifully shot, with a great performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
30 mins, split over 6 episodes. Ignore the fact it's funded by The Man.
3rd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hi-Yo, Poster!
Intrigued to see what direction this new Lone Ranger film is going to take the masked man. Trailer coming soon up at Apple now Kemosabe. Looks very much like a film from the Pirates Of The Caribbean team, could be fun if they manage to stop if bloating over two hours...
3rd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Win Win
Decent riff on sports triumph. Schlubby lawyer/high school wrestling coach Paul Giamatti pulls underhand moves.
3rd Oct 2012
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Looper
Decent time-travel conundrums from @RCJohnso in this indie-meets-tentpole scifi effort. A bit like 12 Monkeys.
3rd Oct 2012
Read more 4 star reviewsShort Attention Span Theatre: Payload
Enjoyed Payload, a decent outback sci-fi short. Just under 18 mins, shot on RED cameras. Follow at @payloadfilm, more details over at Short Of The Week
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2nd Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Dust Up
This new desert showdown may well be from the post-Tarantino school of retromania, but it's still kind of fun to see people making goofy B-movies.
28th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Killing Them Softly
Disappointingly drawn out, pretentious thriller that would have made a decent short film.
27th Sep 2012
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Trailer Park: Stoker
Oldboy's Park Chan-Wook makes his English language debut with this messed-up family drama starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode and Mia Wasikowska. That spider can't be good news ...
27th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Comedy
LCD's James Murphy is one of several dudes with beards in this Brooklyn comedy starring Tim "Tim & Eric" Heidecker
27th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Vanishing Waves / The Prototype
two interesting sci-fi trailers - Vanishing Waves is about a man trying to reach a coma patient with a freaky neural connector that looks a bit like Battlestar's Cylon prophet in a bath; The Protoype is about a robot military drone on the run. Good to see sci-fi getting a bit more cerebral again
26th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Once you peel back the hype all you're left with is an overlong but stylish whodunit.
25th Sep 2012
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The Cabin In The Woods
Silly post-modern mash-up of Scooby Doo and The Truman Show. Wears thin pretty quickly.
24th Sep 2012
Read more 2 star reviewsThe Space Shuttle Goes On Holiday
Lovely video from @VincentLaforet, featuring space shuttle Endevour landing in LA for its retirement. Check the web for dozens of other videos...
24th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Smashed
arthouse bitches! Aaron Paul looking good in this Sundance drama
19th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Moneyball
Solid, if slightly underwhelming sports drama with decent performances.
18th Sep 2012
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Trailer Park: Wake In Fright
Intriguing trailer for this reissued Australian outback cult classic
Alongside Max Max and Walkabout, Wake In Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Combining the backwoods horror of Deliverance and the gritty nihilism of Straw Dogs, the film tells the story of a British schoolteacher’s (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts (including a very inebriated “doctor” played by Donald Pleasence), while stranded in a small town in outback Australia. Virtually unseen in the US and renowned in its home country after years of neglect for its daring criticism, Wake In Fright is ripe for rediscovery, and returns after 40 years to reclaim its title as one of the most awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning films of all time.
18th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Stars In Shorts
Good cast in this short film compilation (with a super cheesy trailer man voiceover): Lily Tomlin, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Jason Alexander, Val Pettiford, Julia Stiles, Marin Ireland, Kenneth Branagh, Jennifer Morrison, Sarah Paulson, Wes Bentley, Judi Dench, Penny Ryder
17th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fonts On Film
Good piece at Flavourwire rounding up 10 directors ad their favourite fonts: Woody Allen and EF Windsor (Light Condensed); Kubrick (and Wes Anderson) and Futura; Sophia Coppola and Kabel. Contains a bonus link to this Jean-Luc Godard tribute font
17th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Details
unofficial look at a long-delayed Tobey Maguire suburban drama with Laura Linney, Ray Liotta and lots of raccoons; details over at TheFilmStage
17th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
One Day
Trite, superficial Harry Met Sally update, with laughable beards.
14th Sep 2012
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RIP: Tom Sims
Skate and snowboard pioneer Tom Sims has died, leaving behind a pretty epic extreme sports legacy ...incluidng his stunt riding for James Bond movie View To A Kill.
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13th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Tyrannosaur
Gut-wrenching drama from Paddy Considine. Desperate, raging performances from Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman.
12th Sep 2012
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Trailer Park: Butter
Jennifer Garner, Ty "Phil from Modern Family" Burrell, Olivia Wilde and Hugh Jackman in one of those comedies about a niche-interest competition (glad they've stopped making these as mock-docs now)
11th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Stanley Kubrick: One-Point Perspective
nice to see a compilation with a point: here's a collection of Kubrick shots all from the same perspective by Kogonada (via @MashKulture)
6th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: This Must Be The Place
What if Robert Smith was an American Nazi hunter?
5th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
LOOM by Luke Scott
New sci-fi short - LOOM - up from Ridley Scott Jnr, AKA Luke Scott. It owes a lot to Blade Runner, but has a decent dose of originality.
4th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle
Off the wall promo from @bluetonguefilms Nash Edgerton for Bob Dylan's track Duquesne Whistle. Brother and emerging Hollywood tough guy Joel Edgerton makes a cameo. As does Dylan.
Via thefilmstage.com
3rd Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Thoughtful action gives way to stupidity as Caeser becomes modern day Chimp Guervara.
2nd Sep 2012
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"He's not a person, Tina, he's a Daily Mail reader." Longer trailer up for Britcom Sightseers
31st Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Master
another trailer for the PTA drama. Looks great.
30th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: How To Make Money Selling Drugs
interesting look at drugs in America, with 50 Cent, David Simon, Eminem etc
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29th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Dark Knight Rises: Script Revision
Cracked have made a few tweaks
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24th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Tony Scott
two trailers from a pretty solid career: Top Gun, The Hunger, Crimson Tide, Enemy of The State, True Romance, Beverly Hills Cop 2
20th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Killer Elite
Clunky, confused actioner that can't decide which wasted star is the protagonist.
19th Aug 2012
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The Help
Decent slice of Oscar-bait, with a scene stealing performance from Jessica Chastain.
18th Aug 2012
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Trailer Park: The Last Stand
"I'M THE SHERIFF" - Arnie's back in a non-Expendables shoot-em-up from Kim Jee-Woon
17th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Seven Psychopaths
Trailer up for Seven Psychopaths, the new movie from Martin McDonagh - his first since the brilliant In Bruges. This looks pretty funny too.
15th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Edge of Darkness
A promising story quickly plummets into dullness with a cookie cutter performance from Mel Gibson.
14th Aug 2012
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Fiery Hawk
Bit late to the party on this short about the perils of movie casting...
13th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Trouble With The Curve
After his supposed retirement/hiatus Clint Eastwood is back in front of the camera, being directed by someone else for the first time since In The Line of Fire. Looks alright too.
10th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: This Is 40
Trailer #2 up for This Is 40, and it's a big improvement. Fast moving up my airplane must-see list.
9th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Earth... It's Awesome.
Have just come acrosss this outstanding timelapse film, shot by the crew of the International Space Staion and assembled by Michael König.
6th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet