Look closely and you’ll divine some bits and pieces of where Pixar’s Brave will be heading in its later sequences. Pay less attention and you’ll still see some ideas that were kept out of the main, theatrical trailers – there’s even a bit of Julie Walters’ largely secret but thoroughly instrumental old witch character here,…
Continue Reading »
Baz Luhrmann has created some incredible visuals for his 3D, CG-enhanced retelling of The Great Gatsby, but that’s hardly unexpected. What remains to be seen is how well it operates as drama. You may pick up on some clues to that end in this first trailer for the film, but just clues. Will the performances…
Continue Reading »
I’m reminded once again of the poster for Gambit, the brilliant comedy caper (with imminent Coens-scripted remake) that came with the tagline: Go ahead – tell the ending – it’s too hilarious to keep secret – but please don’t tell the beginning! A new interview with a cast member of Prometheus gives away his big…
Continue Reading »
Believed to be fictionalised portrait of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, The Master is the next picture from There Will Be Blood overlord Paul Thomas Anderson. Judging from this first trailer, it seems to be structured around the experience of Joaquin Phóenix´s character, a young fella who becomes the right-hand man to Philip…
Continue Reading »
This first promo for Walking Dead season 3 comes with the promise of new characters both announced and unannounced, a look at zombie bits and bloody weapons and… that location, and much talk of how they´re going on to BIGGER and BETTER. It´s pretty bloody puffy, truth be told. And, for international viewers, while it´s…
Continue Reading »
Get ready for some movie marketing history in the making. Not a single frame of Anchorman 2 has been shot yet, but already there are two different teaser trailers doing the rounds. Okay, 1.5 different trailers. Or 1.2. They´re pretty similar. But here we see how the riffing, improv-led style of this particular strand of…
Continue Reading »
After the colossal scale of The Way Back, Peter Weir is planning something very different for his next picture and will adapt Jennifer Egan‘s 2006 novel The Keep. Variety‘s description of the book is as good as useless, but I asked a friend who has read it and they said: It´s going to need a…
Continue Reading »
While we´re all waiting (forever) for David Cronenberg to remake Alien from the point of view of the facehugger, here´s “the next best thing.” Film critic Anne Billson has written, and published as a free e-book, My Day by Jones: A Cat’s-Eye View of Alien. It does precisely what she promises. Here´s the opening passage:…
Continue Reading »
A quote in this trailer for Polisse says that it´s like a whole season of The Wire crammed into a single feature film. You could read that to mean that it will be utterly incomprehensible. Or, on the other hand, that it´s a complex, multifacted look at the crime from both sides of the thin…
Continue Reading »
What took them so long? Fox have released the first trailer for The Longest Daycare, a Maggie Simpson’starring short that is going to play in cinemas, in 3D, ahead of Ice Age 4. Nice to see it´s been hand drawn in the typical Simpsons style. You know, if this is funny, and more funny shorts…
Continue Reading »
One Marvel movie, one DC movie, two different outcomes.
Continue Reading »
What is Big Jim going to do to mark the fiftieth year since he lost his cinematic cherry?
Continue Reading »
“Where did Ian Fleming end and Bond begin?” This, says Duncan Jones, is the essential question fuelling his upcoming movie, a biography of James Bond’s creator Ian Fleming to be framed as “a period action film.” The basis for the film’s biographical detail will be Andrew Lycett’s boook Ian Fleming, The Man Behind James Bond….
Continue Reading »
D.V DeVincentis co-write the screenplays for Lay the Favourite, High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank – which I saw at a preview with Rich on the first ever National Cinema Day in the UK, and how we laughed (the first ever of… two maybe?) I’m quite the fan of those script, so I reckon it…
Continue Reading »
So, there’s a title up there in the third person. That’s awkward enough, and now I’m about to start tooting my own horn so things good get pretty queasy. But this is probably the kind of thing I should tell you. Everybody says so. I won a Sony Radio Award this week. The big industry…
Continue Reading »