By Jess Lomas May 14, 2013 In most horror films, the call comes from inside the house. In Brad Anderson’s thriller The Call it comes from the inside of a car’s trunk. It begins with Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), a 9-1-1 operator based in Los Angeles, answering teenager Leah Templeton’s (Evie Thompson) call to report an intruder. What […]
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Poster Debut: August: Osage County
May 8, 2013 
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The poster for the John Wells directed adaptation of August: Osage County has been released, highlighting how star studded its cast is. The film, adapted from Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts as mother and daughter alongside Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette […]
Continue readingAbigail Breslin joins Streep and Roberts in August: Osage County
July 23, 2012 0 Comments
Abigail Breslin is the latest to join the star-studded cast of August: Osage County, Deadline reports. Breslin will appear opposite Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Juliette Lewis in the John Wells directed adaptation of Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play. Streep has been cast as Violet Weston, the pill popping matriarch of an unstable […]
Continue readingShould old acquaintance be forgot? – New Year’s Eve review
December 7, 2011 0 Comments
New Year’s Eve – Starring Hilary Swank, Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Jessica Parker. Directed by Garry Marshall. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. These movies must be really easy to write. You know the kind. They’ve got a countless number of tangentially-related stock characters portrayed by typecast actors (saves time normally spent on characterisation!) who make […]
Continue readingHollywood preparing to whitewash The Hunger Games
March 4, 2011 4 Comments
Variety has reported Oscar-nominated actresses Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) are in contention for the lead role of Katniss in the adaptation of the bestselling series The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a Battle Royale for the younger generation. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where […]
Continue readingInhuman behaviour – Zombieland review
May 4, 2010 2 Comments
Zombieland – Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Rated MA. Originally published December 2, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. Has any other film reveled in the evisceration of the human (or in this case inhuman) body with such fervent, fetishistic joy? Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland feels less like an action comedy […]
Continue readingTwisted sister’s misery porn – My Sister’s Keeper review
July 29, 2009 18 Comments
My Sister’s Keeper – Starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin and Sofia Vassilieva. Directed by Nick Cassavettes. Rated M for mature themes and infrequent coarse language. 103 mins. By Simon Miraudo. My mother is going to hate this review. In fact, I can guarantee that most women will hate this review. Of the several hundred ladies […]
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