By Glenn Dunks June 24, 2014 Somewhere hidden beneath the frequently indecipherable growls that make up Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace may just be an interesting movie. However, laboured as it is with sledgehammer-subtle metaphors and a cast of overtly gruff male actors doing insufferably one-note performances, Cooper’s second feature after the Oscar-winning Crazy […]
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Trailer Debut: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
May 29, 2013 
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The first trailer for David Lowery’s crime drama Ain’t Them Bodies Saints has appeared online, and it proves you can’t go home again. Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) and Ruth Gunthrie (Rooney Mara) are outlaws in love and on the run following a crime spree. A shootout in which Ruth wounds an officer finally sees them […]
Continue readingAlex Proyas’ pricey Paradise Lost has been abandoned
February 10, 2012 0 Comments
Legendary Pictures has abandoned Alex Proyas‘ $120 million adaptation of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, Deadline reports. Production was halted on the film back in December, as the studio struggled to keep costs down. Legendary decided to scrap the project when they realised they couldn’t adequately depict the tale’s grand, celestial battles on a smaller budget. Bradley […]
Continue readingProduction halts on Alex Proyas’ Paradise Lost
December 14, 2011 0 Comments
Production on Alex Proyas‘ epic action film Paradise Lost has been halted by Legendary Pictures due to its fluctuating budget. The NSW-based shoot, set to generate 1300 local jobs, has a projected price tag of $120 million. However, Deadline claims that budget has since been exceed by “10 or 15%”, and production won’t begin again until that […]
Continue readingCasey Affleck joins Bradley Cooper in Paradise Lost
September 23, 2011 0 Comments
Casey Affleck is in negotiations to play the six-winged messenger of God, Gabriel, in Alex Proyas’ upcoming Paradise Lost, Variety reports. Proyas will shoot the big budget action adaptation of John Milton’s classic poem of the same name in Sydney. Bradley Cooper will star as the archangel Lucifer, who is at war with the archangel […]
Continue reading>Pitt joins Affleck in Cogan’s Trade
January 4, 2011 0 Comments
>Brad Pitt will star in Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of Cogan’s Trade, according to Scene Louisiana. While there were rumours in November last year of Pitt reuniting with the director of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and his co-star in that film, Casey Affleck, Scene confirms that he will play the […]
Continue readingLetterman was in on the I’m Still Here joke too
September 20, 2010 0 Comments
A writer at Late Show with David Letterman has confirmed that Joaquin Phoenix‘s prickly interview with the talk show veteran was a fakery. The sequence is the centerpiece of the debunked-documentary I’m Still Here, which purported to document the lost year of actor-turned-rapper Joaquin Phoenix. Director Casey Affleck confirmed last week that Phoenix’s retirement from […]
Continue readingAffleck confirms I’m Still Here to be Not So Real
September 17, 2010 0 Comments
Casey Affleck, director of the Joaquin Phoenix “documentary” I’m Still Here, has told the New York Times that the film is indeed a fakery. WHAT?! Just kidding. It had long been rumoured that Phoenix’s decision to quit acting for rapping (and subsequent mental breakdown) was a hoax. The rumours are even discussed in the film. […]
Continue readingThe long con – I’m Still Here review
September 15, 2010 1 Comment
I’m Still Here – Starring Joaquin Phoenix. Directed by Casey Affleck. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Joaquin Phoenix seems to have a love/hate relationship with fame – and that’s putting it mildly. An actor since the age of eight, he was further thrust into the limelight (in the most unfortunate of ways) after a […]
Continue readingSlaughter is the best medicine – The Killer Inside Me review
August 30, 2010 1 Comment
The Killer Inside Me – Starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Casey Affleck is a phenomenal actor. He burst from the shadow of his older brother (yes, that Affleck) with his vulnerable, Oscar- nominated supporting turn in The Assassination of Jesse James by the […]
Continue readingI’m Still Here trailer debut
August 17, 2010 0 Comments
The trailer for the “Joaquin Phoenix has a giant public meltdown documentary (mockumentary?) I’m Still Here has debuted online. Frankly, the tone of it is a little more melancholy than we had anticipated. I guess this isn’t going to be the Borat-esque knee-slapper we had hoped. The Casey Affleck-directed doco follows Phoenix’s attempts to retire […]
Continue readingJoaquin Phoenix "documentary" poster debut
August 5, 2010 0 Comments
The poster for I’m Still Here – the insane-sounding “documentary” highlighting Joaquin Phoenix‘s attempt to transition from acting to rapping – has debuted online. And it’s good! Perhaps even Bye! Good! Click to embiggen. You can learn more about the Casey Affleck-directed project here. I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix opens September […]
Continue readingControversial Killer Inside Me gets a new trailer
May 26, 2010 0 Comments
A new trailer for Michael Winterbottom‘s controversial film The Killer Inside Me has debuted online, along with a suitably eerie poster. See, here it is: Based on Jim Thomson’s novel of the same name, The Killer Inside Me stars Casey Affleck as a West Texas deputy sheriff with a penchant for killing (of the serial […]
Continue readingJoaquin Phoenix’s public meltdown – the mockumentary!
May 7, 2010 0 Comments
File this one under: “well, duh”. It turns out that Joaquin Phoenix‘s hilarious decision to quit acting and become a rapper was indeed a put-on. The very public nervous breakdown will be featured in a mockumentary directed by Casey Affleck. But let’s take this from the top. In October 2008, Phoenix said “Bye! Good” to […]
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