The Playlist has unzipped some major details regarding the next Magic Mike film, namely… it’s name! Magic Mike XXL is what the strippertastic sequel shall be christened. Since Steven Soderbergh won’t return to direct – on account of his “retirement” – his right-hand man and frequent first AD Greg Jacobs will take the helm. Channing Tatum has co-written the script […]
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Here’s Scarlett Johansson as another superhero in ‘Lucy’
March 31, 2014 
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Entertainment Weekly offers up the first official picture of Scarlett Johansson in Luc Besson’s Lucy. In the flick, Johansson plays the title character, a drug mule who accidentally absorbs her cargo and develops superhero-esque powers. Hopefully those powers are slightly more impressive than those belonging to Johansson’s Marvel hero, Black Widow, which largely comprises of owning two […]
Continue readingPeter Dinklage to play games with Adam Sandler in ‘Pixels’
March 31, 2014 0 Comments
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Peter Dinklage is in final negotiations to join Adam Sandler’s upcoming sci-fi comedy Pixels, The Wrap reports. The Game of Thrones star, to be seen next as the villain in X-Men: Days of Future Past, will appear alongside Sandler, Kevin James and Josh Gad in the flick. Pixels is based on Patrick Jean’s short film of the […]
Continue readingLong is good – Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 review
March 28, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 28, 2014 As I concluded my review of Nymphomaniac‘s first volume, I wondered if director Lars von Trier would surprise us with a happy ending in its follow-up. For him, that would truly be shocking. Turns out it was a misjudged prediction. I also said the following: “Lars von Trier may […]
Continue readingFloat on – Noah review
March 28, 2014 1 Comment
By Simon Miraudo March 28, 2014 If anyone could rival the fire-and-brimstone-spewing judgement of the Old Testament’s God, it’d be the modern movie-watcher. Though they can’t incite a world-ending deluge, they can – and will – let their disappointment be known by flooding Twitter with their rulings, or, even more devastatingly, by staying away from […]
Continue readingBradley Cooper probably won’t be taking over the Indiana Jones franchise
March 27, 2014 0 Comments
Reports of Indy’s recasting have been greatly exaggerated. The internet had a conniption yesterday when Latino Review suggested Bradley Cooper was being eyed for an Indiana Jones reboot, suggesting the saga would be taking a ‘James Bond’ route. Slash Film has since heard from a high-placing source that the rumour is not true. Producer Frank […]
Continue readingChris Pratt and Anna Faris will “play” a married couple in ‘Vacation Friends’
March 27, 2014 0 Comments
Married funny people Chris Pratt and Anna Faris will star as married funny people in Vacation Friends, Deadline reports. Fox paid seven figures for Tom & Tim Mullen’s spec script, which will see Pratt and Faris play a wild couple who befriend a straight-laced couple on holidays, and are surprised to discover the straight-laced couple […]
Continue readingChris Evans wants to quit acting (once he’s finished all those Marvel movies)
March 27, 2014 0 Comments
It ain’t easy being Captain America. Chris Evans tells Variety he wants to quit acting as soon as his Marvel contract is up. “If I’m acting at all, it’s going to be under Marvel contract, or I’m going to be directing,” he said, his publicist probably nervously-laughing by his side. “I can’t see myself pursuing […]
Continue readingMeryl Streep to play a rock star for Diablo Cody and Jonathan Demme
March 26, 2014 0 Comments
Oscar-statuette inscribers, take note: Meryl Streep might star in a new Jonathan Demme movie scripted by Diablo Cody called Ricky and the Flash. That’s ‘Streep’ with two e’s. According to The Wrap, Streep would play “a woman who abandoned her family when she was younger to find fame and fortune in California.” Variety added this […]
Continue readingCan you smell what the ‘Hercules’ trailer is cooking?
March 26, 2014 0 Comments
The answer is cheese. The Hercules trailer is cooking lots and lots of cheese. Dwayne Johnson plays the Grecian idol in this Brett Ratner-directed joint, though we don’t get to see what kind of flavour he’ll bring to the role until the very end of this teaser, in which he screams a lot. You may not […]
Continue readingPatriot games – Captain America: The Winter Soldier review
March 26, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 26, 2014 We’re three films deep into Marvel’s Phase Two, which is the collective name they’re using for the standalone superhero efforts bridging billion-dollar team-up feature The Avengers and its upcoming, probably-googol-grossing sequel. First two entries Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World were really just marking time until Captain […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Elizabeth
March 26, 2014 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas March 26, 2014 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. It […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – Gareth Evans, The Raid 2, Blackfish
March 25, 2014 0 Comments
“Where would I least like to get hit with a hammer?” The Raid 2 director Gareth Evans reveals his creative process to Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo. The interview is followed by a review, as well as a look at doco Blackfish (now on Quickflix). Show Notes: The Raid 2 opens in AU/NZ cinemas March 28. […]
Continue readingHammer time – The Raid 2: Berandal review
March 25, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 25, 2014 The world of cinema is full of many wonders, chief among them in 2014, writer-director Gareth Evans‘ unending well of inventive ways to kill people on screen. Berandal – the sequel to his murder-a-minute action spectacular The Raid – showcases perhaps the best martial artistry ever committed to celluloid, […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: True Detective – Season 1
March 25, 2014 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams March 25, 2014 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 the rest). Now, this is a story all about how… Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty […]
Continue readingJames Rebhorn, invaluable supporting player, dead at 65
March 24, 2014 0 Comments
James Rebhorn, the reliable and esteemed character actor with more than 100 credits to his name, has died from melanoma. He was 65 years old. Rebhorn’s agent Dianne Busch confirmed his passing to The Hollywood Reporter. He was first diagnosed with melanoma in 1992, surviving a further 22-years before succumbing in his New Jersey home […]
Continue reading‘Fantastic Four’ reboot sequel already in the works
March 24, 2014 0 Comments
Fox has put a lot of faith in their upcoming Fantastic Four reboot, specifically by announcing a sequel to the darn thing already. Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four – starring Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller and Jamie Bell – will hit cinemas June 2015. It’s follow-up (of course, always dependant on the first’s box office performance) will land in […]
Continue readingNew ‘Wolverine’ movie opening in 2017
March 24, 2014 0 Comments
Though Hugh Jackman recently cautioned the world about his decaying, mortal body, he will indeed reprise the role of Logan in at least one more solo Wolverine movie. It will be his eighth effort as the character. Fox has announced a March 2017 release date for his next adventure, with screenwriter David James Kelly busy at work building […]
Continue readingNew sensation – Nymphomaniac Vol.1 review
March 24, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 24, 2014 Overheard after the screening of Nymphomaniac Vol.1: “It certainly had a lot of… ideas.” No kidding. I can’t believe how some of those ‘ideas’ got past the censors. And did you see the size of that one dude’s ‘idea’? The first entry in Lars von Trier‘s two-part odyssey of […]
Continue readingThe write stuff – Adult World review
March 20, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks March 20, 2014 Finally, pornography peddling poets get a film all their own in Scott Coffey’s frisky comedy, Adult World. Amy (Emma Roberts) is a wannabe poet superstar, the kind who thinks she’s the next great artiste and who wouldn’t commit suicide by sticking her head in the oven because that would […]
Continue readingGuts and bolts – I, Frankenstein review
March 20, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks March 20, 2014 In what can only be described as a mess from start to finish, Stuart Beattie‘s I, Frankenstein takes the famed Mary Shelley story and adapts it into an ugly catastrophe. Devoid of any appeal that isn’t concentrated around star Aaron Eckhart’s impeccably-sculpted muscles, this effects-laden lump of cinematic coal […]
Continue readingDisney Pixar announce ‘The Incredibles 2’ and ‘Cars 3’
March 19, 2014 0 Comments
Disney has made it official: there are many more Pixar sequels in the works. At an investor’s meeting, the studio revealed plans for The Incredibles 2 and Cars 3. Though director Brad Bird has been living in the world of live-action recently, he’ll return to write and likely direct the long-awaited superhero sequel. Anticipation for a third Cars film is […]
Continue reading‘The Maze Runner’ trailer promises a true contender for the YA throne
March 19, 2014 0 Comments
Having trouble keeping all those YA franchises straight in your head? Let The Maze Runner complicate things further. The trailer for 20th Century Fox’s great YA hope has dropped, looking eerily reminiscent of both The Hunger Games and The Host. But here’s the thing: it seems pretty good. Based on the novel by James Dashner, it tells of a teeanger (Dylan O’Brien) […]
Continue reading‘Taken’ spoof titled ‘Tooken’ in the works
March 19, 2014 0 Comments
There once was a time when spoof movies – not made by the Wayans brothers or harbingers of doom Friedberg/Seltzer – frequently populated cinemas. That era looks to return with Tooken, a ‘Naked Gun-style’ spoof of Taken. According to Deadline, production will start on the flick in the coming months. Cameron Van Hoy and John Asher penned the screenplay. Asher […]
Continue readingAlison Brie joins Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart for ‘Get Hard’
March 19, 2014 0 Comments
Community and Mad Men‘s Alison Brie will play Will Ferrell’s fiancée in the upcoming comedy Get Hard, Deadline reports. Though the actress is already 15 years Ferrell’s junior, the fact she plays a fairly-recent high school graduate on Community makes the pairing even ickier. The flick concerns an investment banker (Ferrell) who turns to his car-washer (Kevin Hart) for a crash-course in ‘getting hard’ […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – Stuart Beattie, The Counselor, What Richard Did
March 19, 2014 0 Comments
The latest episode of Talk Hard is live. It’s live! Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo chats to I, Frankenstein director Stuart Beattie (ahead of the film’s cinema release on March 20) and then reviews new DVDs The Counselor and What Richard Did. Show Notes: Thanks for tuning in! We’ll be back with another episode in two […]
Continue readingThe travel bug – Magic Magic review
March 18, 2014 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy March 18, 2014 Magic Magic is a bold, subversive and conclusively sadistic piece of work that implants a knot into its audience’s stomach before kicking them out to the curb with a brutal ending that withholds any sense of conventional catharsis. Juno Temple stars as Alicia, a meek young girl who, travelling […]
Continue readingClays of our lives – The Missing Picture review
March 18, 2014 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas March 18, 2014 Documentaries chronicling war tend not to involve clay figurines and miniaturised recreations, yet, in The Missing Picture, director Rithy Panh’s memoir of his childhood under the thumb of the Khmer Rouge, archival footage and diorama-style visuals are impressively blended. When the Khmer Rouge forcibly removes the population of Phnom […]
Continue readingPunny games – Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 review
March 18, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 18, 2014 Man cannot survive on puns alone, but it seems kids will happily eat them up. The Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs franchise is one of the more unlikely success stories of recent years, coming from low-rent cartoon factory Sony Pictures Animation (home of Surf’s Up!) and earning some rare acclaim to […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – True Detective Season 1
March 17, 2014 0 Comments
Grab a can of Lone Star and listen in to Quickflix critics Simon Miraudo and Andrew Williams as they unravel Season 1 of True Detective (as well as pick some potential actors for Season 2). Time is a flat circle… so you may as well start listening now! True Detective S1 is now streaming on […]
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