Last year it was revealed that The Bourne Legacy – the Tony Gilroy-directed fourth instalment of the Jason Bourne saga – would not feature its namesake, but instead a new hero. Deadline has unveiled the shortlist of actors currently testing for the role, and it includes Australia’s own Joel Edgerton. Also on the shortlist is […]
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Amy Adams to join Rock of Ages?
March 25, 2011 
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Amy Adams is in talks to join the cast of Adam Shankman’s upcoming musical Rock of Ages. According to Deadline, Shankman wants her for the role of an uptight journalist who is bedded by debauched rock star Stacee Jax (Tom Cruise). Anne Hathaway was originally offered the role, but a scheduling conflict with The Dark […]
Continue readingJason Schwartzman cast in Wes Anderson’s new flick
March 25, 2011 0 Comments
Jason Schwartzman has joined the already stellar cast of Wes Anderson’s upcoming film Moonrise Kingdom (his first live-action project in five years). We first learned about Wes Anderson’s upcoming flick Moonrise Kingdom back in October of 2010, but all we knew is that it would focus on a boy and girl (both aged 12). The […]
Continue readingEd Harris to play John McCain opposite Moore’s Palin
March 25, 2011 0 Comments
The cast of Jay Roach’s HBO film Game Change is sliding in to place. According to EW, Ed Harris will play Republican presidential nominee John McCain, opposite the already announced Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin. The Danny Strong penned flick will detail the behind-the-scenes events of the 2008 Obama/McCain election campaign. The next two big […]
Continue readingMichael Shannon, Edgar Ramirez for Superman villain?
March 24, 2011 0 Comments
Now that the cast for The Dark Knight Rises is officially firming up (putting to bed those long-standing/never-true rumours about Cher and Eddie Murphy playing Catwoman and The Riddler respectively), the internet has turned to Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot to flex their speculative muscle. We already know Henry Cavill will play the Man of Steel, […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Captain America – The First Avenger
March 24, 2011 2 Comments
Holy shrunken Chris Evans! The feature trailer for Marvel’s Captain America – The First Avenger has debuted online. We previously saw Evans as the diminutive wannabe-solider Steve Rogers in the 30-second Superbowl spot, but here we get an idea of how much of the movie he will spend in this smaller frame. Quite a bit, […]
Continue readingTeacher feature – Waiting for "Superman" review
March 23, 2011 1 Comment
Waiting for “Superman” – Directed by Davis Guggenheim. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. Davis Guggenheim’s latest documentary Waiting for “Superman” is a slick, affecting film about the education crisis in America. Guggenheim follows a number of young students from particularly impoverished areas as their parents struggle to pay school fees and put their hopes and […]
Continue readingR.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor
March 23, 2011 0 Comments
Screen icon and two-time Academy Award winner Elizabeth Taylor has died from congestive heart failure. She was 79 years old. According to a spokeswoman, the actress was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Hospital – where she was admitted six weeks ago – surrounded by her four children. Elizabeth Rosamond Taylor was born in Hampstead, London to […]
Continue readingLebowski duo Bridges and Moore reunite for The Seventh Son
March 23, 2011 0 Comments
Julianne Moore will play Mother Malkin – the most dangerous witch in the 1700’s – to Jeff Bridges’ master exorcist “The Spook” in The Seventh Son, Entertainment Weekly reports. The two actors were last seen on screen together in the Coen brothers’ 1998 cult hit The Big Lebowski. As some have pointed out, in Lebowski […]
Continue readingPattinson, Timberlake and Garfield in line for Akira remake?
March 23, 2011 1 Comment
Deadline New York has revealed a shortlist of young male Hollywood talent being considered for roles in the upcoming adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s graphic novel Akira. Akira will be based on the 1988 Japanese anime, which itself was based on director Otomo’s own graphic novel of the same name. Whereas the original was set in […]
Continue readingThe Jess Lomas Book Club: Crooked House
March 23, 2011 0 Comments
The Jess Lomas Book Club: Crooked House *A weekly feature in which literary connoisseur Jess Lomas examines the upcoming book-to-film adaptations worth keeping an eye on!* Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick. That’s the extent of my knowledge of all things mysterious and crime solving, but for those who love a good whodunit, […]
Continue readingThis is Grimm – Red Riding Hood review
March 23, 2011 2 Comments
Red Riding Hood – Starring Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman and Shiloh Fernandez. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. When Red Riding Hood stopped being bad in all the conventional ways, it found a bunch of new, innovative ways to be bad. Okay, that’s not entirely true. Red Riding Hood never stops being […]
Continue readingThe Statham Special – The Mechanic review
March 22, 2011 0 Comments
The Mechanic – Starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland. Directed by Simon West. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Jason Statham knows how to kill people real good. That’s just one of the great cinematic truths of our time. In the same way that some actors have a natural chemistry with one another, and […]
Continue readingThe Hobbit officially (finally!) begins production
March 22, 2011 1 Comment
Our long international nightmare is over! After years of false starts, casting dramas, replaced directors, a studio bankruptcy, strikes, boycotts and even a perforated ulcer, production has officially begun on The Hobbit. Warner Bros, New Line Cinema and MGM broke the good news in a joint press release (which is rather long, but you can […]
Continue readingDavid Slade confirms his involvement in Daredevil
March 22, 2011 0 Comments
It was revealed last week that David Slade – director of the incredible Hard Candy and abominable The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – was set to direct a new Daredevil flick for 20th Century Fox. Slade took to his Twitter account to confirm his involvement in the project (as well as debunk a couple of rumours […]
Continue readingCloverfield 2 is coming … someday
March 22, 2011 0 Comments
There was a time when we all thought J.J. Abrams‘ Super 8 would be a sort-of-sequel to Cloverfield, or at least a spin-off from the same universe. Abrams debunked that fairly quickly, but today we have learnt that Cloverfield 2 is still very much a possibility. Cloverfield and Let Me In director Matt Reeves told […]
Continue readingDriving me crazy – Due Date review
March 21, 2011 0 Comments
Due Date – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis and Michelle Monaghan. Directed by Todd Phillips. Rated MA. Originally published November 26, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Your ability to enjoy Due Date depends entirely on your patience for wildly unpleasant protagonists. The good news is that director Todd Phillip’s previous film The Hangover should have […]
Continue readingApatow to produce celebrity satire Do Gooders
March 21, 2011 0 Comments
Comedy King and ultra busy filmmaker Judd Apatow is set to produce Do Gooders for Universal, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details of the project are being tightly guarded, though the screenplay, based on a pitch by Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck, is said to focus on a group of actors who want to reach […]
Continue readingMichael Chabon to pen Magic Kingdom?
March 21, 2011 0 Comments
Acclaimed author Michael Chabon could pen the screenplay for Jon Favreau’s upcoming Disney flick Magic Kingdom, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and screenwriter best known for his novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Wonder Boys (which was adapted to the screen […]
Continue readingDeath of the party – Sagan review
March 20, 2011 0 Comments
Sagan – Starring Sylvie Testud, Jeanne Balibar and Arielle Dombasle. Directed by Diane Kurys. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Sagan plays the Perth International Arts Festival from March 21st to March 27th. Click here for more details. Françoise Sagan was one of the most controversial and incendiary figures in modern literature; a French virtuoso who […]
Continue readingDarren Aronofsky will direct The Wolverine NO MORE
March 18, 2011 0 Comments
Darren Aronofsky, the Oscar-nominated director of Black Swan and scarf-aficionado, will no longer direct the highly-anticipated X-Men spin-off The Wolverine. Aronofsky released a joint statement with 20th Century Fox, revealing that the project would keep him away from his family for too long. The statement (courtesy of Deadline) reads: “As I talked more about the […]
Continue readingJennifer Lawrence cast as Katniss in The Hunger Games
March 18, 2011 0 Comments
Jennifer Lawrence has scored the coveted role of Katniss Everdeen in the highly anticipated, Gary Ross directed adaptation of The Hunger Games, The Wrap confirms. Lawrence was touted as the frontrunner with 14-year-old fellow Academy Award nominee Hailee Steinfeld at the start of March, but news overnight has confirmed Lawrence has signed on for the […]
Continue readingAttack on the senses – Battle Los Angeles review
March 17, 2011 3 Comments
Battle Los Angeles – Starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and Ramon Rodriguez. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Michael Bay and Tony Scott made love to the American flag, birthed a demon spawn and called it Battle Los Angeles. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with a new landmark in the “loud, […]
Continue readingRed Dawn remake will digitally alter Chinese army into North Korean
March 17, 2011 2 Comments
Well this is interesting. MGM’s long-shelved remake of Red Dawn is set to have its villains digitally altered from Chinese to North Korean, the L.A. Times reports. The original 1984 Red Dawn was released during the Cold War, and depicted a Soviet invasion of America fended off by plucky teenagers – Go Wolverines! MGM decided […]
Continue readingThe casual sex epidemic rages on! New Friends With Benefits trailer.
March 17, 2011 1 Comment
Apparently there is some sort of “friends having sex with friends” epidemic sweeping America. Earlier this year we saw Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher agree to a No Strings Attached relationship, and now Portman’s Black Swan co-star Mila Kunis has signed a Friends With Benefits contract with Justin Timberlake. A Red Band trailer for this […]
Continue readingMegan Fox to join Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up spin-off?
March 17, 2011 0 Comments
There might not have been a faster decline from ‘It-Girl’ to ‘Punch Line’ in Hollywood history than the one experienced by Megan Fox in the past twelve months. After co-starring in two super–successful Transformers films, the young actress headlined a string of flops, was booted from the third Transformers for being too mouthy, and recently […]
Continue readingAmerican Pie reunion being carved up
March 17, 2011 0 Comments
The cast members of the original American Pie trilogy (and not all those loosely-related spin-offs) are being rounded up by Universal for the aptly title sequel American Reunion. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott and Eugene Levy have all signed on for the project. Thomas Ian Nicholas, Tara Reid, Chris Klein, […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Larry Crowne
March 17, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for Tom Hanks‘ latest movie Larry Crowne (our 22nd most anticipated film of 2011!) has debuted online. Larry Crowne is Hanks’ directorial follow-up to That Thing You Do (yes, we remember it), and hopefully he waited fifteen years to deliver us something truly special. He stars as the eponymous Larry Crowne; recently fired […]
Continue readingThe Jess Lomas Book Club: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
March 16, 2011 0 Comments
The Jess Lomas Book Club: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan *A weekly feature in which literary connoisseur Jess Lomas examines the upcoming book-to-film adaptations worth keeping an eye on!* “Gosh, I wish there were more films like The Joy Luck Club!” Does this sound like something you’d say? I didn’t think so. Not many […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Chris Lilley’s Angry Boys
March 16, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for Chris Lilley‘s highly anticipated new TV show Angry Boys has debuted online. We first reported on the Angry Boys back in 2009, when it was revealed Lilley was working on an unprecedented co-production with the ABC, HBO and the BBC. The 12-part series will see Lilley reprise the characters of Daniel and […]
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