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Comedown machine – Iron Man 3 review

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 […]

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Poster Debut: Guy Pearce in Iron Man 3

A brand new poster for Marvel’s Iron Man 3 touts the blockbuster’s other villain: Guy Pearce’s geneticist Aldrich Killian. Though Ben Kingsley is playing the infamous Mandarin in the flick, Killian is believed to have a key role in his evildoing. If that sourpuss doesn’t give away his nefarious intentions, surely his bleached blonde hair, hinted-at-mullet, […]

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The magic man – Hugo review

Hugo – Starring Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz and Ben Kingsley. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Rated PG. Originally published January 11, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Hugo arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia May 23, 2012. Martin Scorsese is arguably cinema’s biggest fanboy. The cliché is that he’s only concerned with telling tales of gangsters getting by in his native New York. However, he’s […]

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Scarlett Johansson won’t appear in Iron Man 3

Sorry Avengers fans. There will be no sight of Scarlett Johansson‘s Black Widow in Iron Man 3. Johansson revealed the news to ScreenRant while promoting the epic Marvel team-up flick. Though the Widow won’t appear in Shane Black’s Iron Man sequel, Johansson hopes she’ll eventually get her own spin off (of course she would). Though […]

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Jessica Chastain in talks for Iron Man 3

Jessica Chastain is in talks to join the cast of Iron Man 3, Deadline reports. The Oscar-nominated redhead would potentially threaten Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) relationship with his own raven-haired flame, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), by playing a “sexy scientist every bit as smart as Tony Stark.” As reported yesterday, Guy Pearce might join […]

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Guy Pearce joins Iron Man 3

Guy Pearce is in final talks to star opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 3, Variety reports. Pearce would play Aldrich Killian, a geneticist who develops the Extremis nano-technology used by Tony Stark. It is unknown if, as in the comics, Killian will assist a terrorist in the spread of a nanobot virus. Ben Kingsley […]

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Ben Kingsley suits up for Iron Man 3

Ben Kingsley is close to signing on as the villain in Iron Man 3, Variety reports. Filming begins on the Marvel sequel in May, and will see Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, and Don Cheadle back as Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Black Widow and Rhodey respectively (obviously). Though it’s unknown who Kingsley would […]

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The magic man – Hugo review

Hugo – Starring Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz and Ben Kingsley. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. Martin Scorsese is arguably cinema’s biggest fanboy. The cliché is that he’s only concerned with telling tales of gangsters getting by in his native New York. However, he’s spent more of his time saving legendary […]

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Trailer Debut: Hugo

The trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s 3-D family adventure Hugo has debuted online. Formerly titled Hugo Cabret (and The Invention of Hugo Cabret before that), it is based on the much-loved book by Brian Selznick. Asa Butterfield stars as the eponymous orphan who befriends a young girl (Chloe Moretz) and discovers the invention of an old eccentric (Ben Kingsley). […]

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Martin Scorsese’s Hugo Cabret gets title change

At the beginning of the year, we called Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Brian Selznick’s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret the third most exciting film of 2011. After having the title shortened to just Hugo Cabret, the picture has once again been christened to the much sleeker and more character efficient Hugo. We imagine a […]

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Prince of Persia trailer debut!

source: traileraddict.com The trailer for Mike Newell‘s adaptation of the popular video game Prince of Persia has debuted online. Just kidding. Here’s a better look. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as Dastan, a street urchin who becomes the heir to the Persian throne. He teams up with Princess […]

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