Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum are at the top of 20th Century Fox’s wish list for their upcoming remake of Guys and Dolls, Deadline reports. They would tackle the roles made famous by Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. The remake of the Tony Award winning stage show and Academy Award nominated film has no writer […]
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Jon Favreau returns to indie world with Chef
April 30, 2013 
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Jon Favreau looks set to return to his indie roots with upcoming film Chef, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Favreau – who is these days more famous for directing Iron Man than scripting the 1996 indie Swingers – will star in, direct and produce the new film based on his own screenplay. He reportedly also […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Five Easy Pieces
April 30, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 30, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]
Continue readingKill for love – Sightseers review
April 30, 2013 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy April 30, 2013 Ben Wheatley is one of the most promising young directors to come out of the UK of late. His first feature, Down Terrace, was a sharp, tense, and comic chamber piece, whilst his following film, Kill List, was simply the best, most horrifying genre flick this writer had seen […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – James Marsh (Shadow Dancer, Man on Wire)
April 29, 2013 0 Comments
“I’m your private dancer…” Sorry, we mean Shadow Dancer! Simon Miraudo speaks with Oscar winning director James Marsh (Man on Wire, Project Nim) about his IRA thriller, now available on DVD. Keep listening to hear Simon’s review. He’ll do what you want him to do. [audio https://qfxblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/talk-hard-james-marsh.mp3] Show Notes: Thanks once again for listening! Please subscribe […]
Continue readingZach Braff’s new movie meets Kickstarter goal
April 29, 2013 0 Comments
Zach Braff’s attempt to fund his new movie through crowd-sourcing site Kickstarter has been an unqualified success, collecting more than $2 million in less than a week. Titled Wish I Was Here, the picture will mark Braff’s first directorial effort since his hit indie Garden State. Braff’s legion of fans were no doubt enticed by the promise […]
Continue readingJohnny Depp might go Into the Woods
April 29, 2013 0 Comments
Johnny Depp is considering a return to the world of musicals, THR reports. Depp is in talks to star in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s beloved Broadway musical Into the Woods. He previously took on the lead role in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Rob Marshall is set to helm Into […]
Continue readingScarlett Johansson to play Luc Besson’s Lucy
April 29, 2013 0 Comments
Scarlett Johansson is in final negotiations to star in the latest thriller off the Luc Besson production line, titled Lucy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film concerns a female drug mule who is transformed into an “ass-kicking machine” after she accidentally ingests her cargo. The drug gives Lucy the ability to “absorb knowledge instantaneously” and […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Thor – The Dark World
April 26, 2013 0 Comments
Hot on the heels of Iron Man 3’s release, Marvel has released the teaser trailer for Thor – The Dark World. In it, we get to see Thor (Chris Hemsworth) bringing his girlfriend Jane (Natalie Portman) to Asgard, either to meet his parents (Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo), or to save her from yet another intergalactic terror […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Bling Ring
April 26, 2013 0 Comments
Sofia Coppola’s upcoming true crime tale The Bling Ring has a brand new trailer. Along with additional footage, this one comes with extra Azealia Banks on the soundtrack, which, of course, instantly makes everything better The pic stars Emma Watson as the ringleader of a band of teen thieves – known as the Hollywood Hills Burglar […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – Iron Man 3 / Clark Gregg (The Avengers)
April 25, 2013 0 Comments
Everything’s topsy turvy! The review comes first this week, and it’s of Iron Man 3. After that, an interview with Clark Gregg, who you may know best as Phil Coulson, the SHILED agent from every other Marvel movie, and, most significantly The Avengers. Stick with Simon Miraudo, your playboy, billionaire film critic. Well, one out […]
Continue readingFirst official images from The Amazing Spider-Man 2
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
The first official image of Jamie Foxx in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has been released and it’s the grand spectacle of Django himself with a big, fat comb-over. Foxx is set to play the villain, Electro, in the upcoming sequel. Earlier in the month pictures taken from the set were leaked onto the internet showing […]
Continue readingBen Stiller sets screenwriter to work on Dodgeball 2
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
The Hollywood Reporter recently revealed that a sequel to 2004’s Dodgeball is in the works. We are assuming it will be titled Dodgeball 2: Dodge Harder. Little is known about the project at this stage, but Ben Stiller’s production company have tasked Clay Tarver to pen the screenplay. Tarver has very little produced screenwriting output, […]
Continue readingPlay it Again – American Graffiti
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas April 24, 2013 As a teenager, summer days seemed endless, the nights were full of possibility, and the future was unwritten. Before George Lucas introduced the world to Star Wars, he captured those fleeting moments that signal the end of childhood and the beginning of adult life in American Graffiti; a homage […]
Continue readingComedown machine – Iron Man 3 review
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 24, 2013 Iron Man 3 carries that ‘morning after’ feeling former playboy Tony Stark is no doubt familiar with. Following the heady highs of The Avengers, this latest entry in the Marvel canon may leave your head-spinning for all the wrong reasons. More of a comedown than a comeback, it’s a […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: The Sopranos – Season 3
April 23, 2013 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams April 23, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – To The Wonder / Evil Dead / Mud
April 23, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks April 23, 2013 There’s a wide world of cinema out there, and Quickflix’s Glenn Dunks is on the ground in New York City bringing you the titles that will soon be seen in Australian cinemas, and eventually available on home entertainment. The Manhattan Report: Walkouts in Terrence Malick, hoots of gore approval in a […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – Pablo Larrain (No)
April 23, 2013 0 Comments
Happiness is coming? Happiness is here! Say ‘Yes’ to our interview with Pablo Larrain, the director of No; a recent nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Simon Miraudo delivers his review of that movie – perhaps the best of 2013 so far – at the end of the episode. [audio https://qfxblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/talk-hard-no.mp3] Show Notes: Apologies […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: R.I.P.D.
April 22, 2013 0 Comments
The trailer for R.I.P.D., Ryan Reynolds’ latest attempt at a franchise to call his own, has arrived online. Based on the Dark Horse comic Rest in Peace Department, it stars Ryan Reynolds as recently slain police officer Nick Walker. In the afterlife, he is recruited for the titular law enforcement agency, tasked with taking down undead criminals. He’s joined […]
Continue readingTom Hiddleston could be The Crow
April 22, 2013 0 Comments
Tom Hiddleston is in early talks to star in Relativity’s reboot of The Crow, according to The Wrap. Hiddleston, best known as Loki from The Avengers and Thor, has broken bread with the pic’s producers, and even submitted to them a home-made make-up test (which we’re going to need copies of, okay producers?). Should he sign up for the flick, it will be […]
Continue readingMartin Scorsese set to shoot Silence in 2014
April 22, 2013 0 Comments
Martin Scorsese is finally set to take on Silence, a project that has been on his slate since 1991. According to Deadline, Scorsese is looking to shoot the adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel in July of 2014. That shoot date will depend on how quickly a cast comes together. Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro, and Gael Garcia […]
Continue readingSoderbergh, Polanski, Payne, and the Coens compete at 66th Cannes Film Festival
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s swan song will face off against the latest efforts by Roman Polanski, Asghar Farhadi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alexander Payne, and the Coen brothers at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The lineup reveals which pictures will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or, collected last year by Michael Haneke’s Amour. Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra […]
Continue readingUniversal set to remake Weird Science
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
The remake train rolls on, with Universal revealing their plans to update John Hughes’ Weird Science. According to Deadline, Universal Pictures will team with Silver Pictures for a modern reboot of the raunchy 1985 flick. Michael Bacall (21 Jump Street, Project X) will script the feature, concerning a duo of nerdy teens who create their dream […]
Continue readingInterview: Pablo Larrain (No)
April 18, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 18, 2013 Pablo Larrain is over it. After three consecutive films detailing life under General Augusto Pinochet in his home country of Chile, he is eager to tackle a different subject. Thankfully, his unofficial trilogy of darkly comic social commentaries is capped with his best feature yet: No. It follows the […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman (Wreck-It Ralph)
April 18, 2013 0 Comments
John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman, the stars of Disney’s blockbuster Wreck-It Ralph, chat with – and make fun of – Simon Miraudo in this epic episode. Simon wraps up the show with a review of the hit video game movie. If you would like to continue, simply press the start button (and by that […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Man of Steel
April 17, 2013 0 Comments
A lengthy new trailer for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has debuted ahead of the film’s June release, giving us a greater glimpse of Kal-El’s escape from the exploding planet Krypton, as well as Michael Shannon as the villainous General Zod. Though still an origin story for Superman (Henry Cavill), the trailer does promise a whole heap […]
Continue readingRobert Downey Jr. received $50 million for his work in The Avengers
April 17, 2013 1 Comment
There’s nothing quite as gauche as discussing money, unless you’re Robert Downey Jr., and then you can get away with anything. In an extremely entertaining and expectedly revealing GQ profile, Downey Jr. confirmed he received around $50 million for his work in The Avengers; a combination of his appearance fee and profit participation from the back end. “Isn’t […]
Continue readingPitch Perfect sequel to hit cinemas in 2015
April 17, 2013 0 Comments
Following a reunion of its stars at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, Universal has set a release date for the Pitch Perfect sequel. It’s sometime in 2015! SlashFilm reported Universal’s announcement at CinemaCon. It had previously been revealed that the studio were meeting with some of the original’s stars for a potential follow up, including Rebel Wilson […]
Continue readingChurn after reading – Butter review
April 16, 2013 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy April 16, 2013 Butter is a dark satirical comedy set in the highly relatable world of competitive butter carving. When Hugh Jackman appeared as an all-American used car salesman, I realised I was watching something special. Not special in a good way, mind you, but special in a ‘why the hell does […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Mean Streets
April 16, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 16, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]
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