Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Continuing our Halloween moon theme, take a look at this comedy/horror cult classic released in 1981. The movie was written and directed by John Landis previously of The Blues Brothers fame. It stars David Naughton, Griffin Dunne and Jenny Agutter.
The film won the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film and is much revered by [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Well this is more like it. In an age where directors are thrown at projects in a less than sensible fashion, the forthcoming movie adaptation of Marvel’s THOR character has gone and got itself someone respectable. Not just respectable, fanboys and girls, we’re talking about Kenneth Brannagh. Yes. Kenneth Brannagh will be directing a big-screen [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
As we reported months ago, Johnny Depp will indeed be donning a rather mad hat in Tim Burton’s forthcoming adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Ho Hum. I can see it now, Helena Bonham Carter will be announced next, along with Danny Elfman and a quirky visual style that will just be ker-azy. And stuff. Oh [...]
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The remake/reboot of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET has got its leading man. The iconic part of Freddy Krueger is to be played by… Billy Bob Thornton. Now, despite my initial reaction of WTF? I am going to reserve any bile for after I’ve seen the film when it finally gets its release. This could [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The highly anticipated feature film adaptation of the Xbox 360 hit video game GEARS OF WAR finally came a step closer to becoming a reality recently. It has now been confirmed that Len Wiseman will direct the movie, and work is expected to start soon on getting the production underway. Now to be scripted by [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Reuters and Empire magazine have revealed that Ian McKellen is to return to JRR Tolkien’s universe once more, to reprise his role from The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf, in Benicio Del Toro’s forthcoming pair of movies based on THE HOBBIT. This is great news for fans, as it will help secure a definite [...]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Y’know, the upcoming movie of classic anime series SPEED RACER looks absolutely fantastic. The insane visual style that the film is being put together with creates a nicely self contained universe for the action to take place in, the stars look great, the cars too. What I’m curious about is how the movie is going [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The forthcoming remake of FRIDAY THE 13th just got interesting. I’ve been a detractor of the idea of remaking such an iconic moivie since I first heard about it (Don’t get me started on the Elm Street remake, just don’t), but now we have a name for the man that will portray the legendary Jason [...]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
<A href=”http://ws.amazon.co.uk/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=GB&ID=V20070822%2FGB%2Fstarstorecom-21%2F8003%2Fbd925afe-82db-49c1-bd42-2a1b32056673&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.co.uk Widgets</A>Is there more than meets the eye going on out there already? Bad puns aside, is Michael Bay about to start shooting the sequel to last year’s Transformers movie already? One eagle-eyed poster over at Superhero Hype has let slip a photo of what appears to be two BARRICADE cars being driven [...]
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