By Simon Miraudo August 25, 2014 Magic in the Moonlight sees Woody Allen putting the least amount of effort into enchanting audiences at a time when he really needs to work a little harder for their love. The public perception of Allen takes a trip on the Ferris wheel each year, and though he’s coming […]
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Woody Allen’s ‘Magic in the Moonlight’ trailer sees Emma Stone charm Colin Firth
May 22, 2014 
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The trailer for Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight has arrived, and with it, an idea of what the damn thing is actually about. His plots are usually shrouded in secrecy until a trailer drops, though we have known for some time his latest would star Emma Stone, Colin Firth, Marcia Gay Harden and Jacki Weaver. Set in […]
Continue readingSpidey fans start petition for Amazing Spider-Man 2 director’s cut (that may not exist)
May 6, 2014 0 Comments
This is a bewildering one. Indian Spidey-fan Muhesh Spaleesh has started a petition on Change.org begging Sony Pictures and Marc Webb to release a director’s cut of The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro. Citing the sequel’s bleak Rotten Tomatoes score, Spaleesh suggests a director’s cut would enhance critical reception and be “beneficial to the franchise.” […]
Continue readingTangled up in blue – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 review
April 23, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 23, 2014 You’ve come a long way, Spidey. Just in the wrong direction. Sam Raimi‘s 2004 effort Spider-Man 2 is an all-timer; an exhilarating comic-book movie that skilfully balances goofball comedy with profoundly affecting tragedy, allowing a complicated romance to simmer beneath the surface. It’s among the best superhero films ever […]
Continue readingAmanda Seyfried thinks ‘He’s F***ing Perfect’
December 10, 2013 0 Comments
Amanda Seyfried is set to flex her funny bone again in the comedy He’s F***ing Perfect, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film will be produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, the man behind Ferrell’s Step Brothers and Anchorman films. The screenplay was written by McKay’s former assistant Lauryn Kahn and was picked up […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Rise of Electro’
December 9, 2013 0 Comments
The trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 shows Peter Parker facing off against no less than three dastardly villains, because obviously replicating the formula of everyone’s favourite superhero movie, Spider-Man 3, is a can’t-lose gambit. See Andrew Garfield’s Spidey battling the blue-tinged Electro (Jamie Foxx), maniacal Rhino (Paul Giamatti), and old friend Harry Osborn, aka, Lil’ Goblin […]
Continue readingHighly evolved – The Croods review
December 2, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo December 2, 2013 Father doesn’t always know best. If your dad is a caveman – or Nicolas Cage – that can be especially the case. In DreamWorks Animation’s offbeat effort The Croods, teenage troglodyte Eep (Emma Stone) grows tired of her overprotective pop, Grug (Cage), keeping her hidden from the outside world. […]
Continue readingFirst look at Emma Stone and Colin Firth in Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight
October 16, 2013 0 Comments
Blue Jasmine is barely out of cinemas, but workhorse Woody Allen is close to wrapping his follow-up feature. The first images from his 2014 release, Magic in the Moonlight, show stars Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, and Colin Firth all looking rather smart in their 1920s attire. Little is known about the plot, besides the […]
Continue readingJacki Weaver joins Woody Allen’s new project
July 4, 2013 0 Comments
Jacki Weaver has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s new feature, The Hollywood Reporter, erm, reports. The two-time Oscar nominated (it’s still a little odd to write that) Australian actress will appear opposite the previously announced Emma Stone and Colin Firth. Marcia Gay Harden, Eileen Atkins, Hamish Linklater, and Simon McBurney are other new additions to […]
Continue readingMary Jane cut from The Amazing Spider-Man 2
June 24, 2013 0 Comments
There have been growing concerns about the number of new characters in Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Now comes news that one has been cut from the film entirely: Mary Jane. Actress Shailene Woodley revealed to Entertainment Weekly that her three scenes had been excised from the upcoming sequel. Good news for Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy, who […]
Continue readingFirst look at Paul Giamatti as Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
May 15, 2013 0 Comments
Marc Webb, director of The Amazing Spiderman 2, recently tweeted a first-look picture of Paul Giamatti as the villainous Rhino (and he sure looks angry). Rhino is famously described a one of Spiderman’s “dimmest villains,” an Eastern European thug who gets some superhuman powers and goes a little psycho. Whilst the photo Webb tweeted doesn’t […]
Continue readingFirst official images from The Amazing Spider-Man 2
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
The first official image of Jamie Foxx in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has been released and it’s the grand spectacle of Django himself with a big, fat comb-over. Foxx is set to play the villain, Electro, in the upcoming sequel. Earlier in the month pictures taken from the set were leaked onto the internet showing […]
Continue readingJessica Chastain signs on for Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak
April 8, 2013 0 Comments
Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is yet to hit cinemas, but actors are signing on to his follow-up in droves. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jessica Chastain is the latest to put her hand up for a part in his horror flick Crimson Peak. She joins Emma Stone, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Charlie Hunnam. The picture concerns a woman […]
Continue readingMichael Keaton makes comeback in Birdman opposite Stone, Galifianakis, and Watts
March 7, 2013 0 Comments
After a time in the wilderness, Michael Keaton is set to return to the world of feature film starring roles. The Hollywood Reporter recently announced Keaton as lead in the upcoming dark comedy Birdman. Birdman is a change of pace for hard-hitting drama director Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams, Babel); it tells the blackly comic […]
Continue readingFirst look at The Amazing Spider-Man 2
February 26, 2013 0 Comments
Sony Pictures has released the first image of Spidey’s new threads from The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It’s… pretty much what you’d expect. Coming Soon note the new outfit’s bigger eyes and subtle colour and texture alterations. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone will reprise the roles of Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy in the sequel. They will be joined […]
Continue readingPaul Giamatti in talks for Amazing Spider-Man 2
January 31, 2013 0 Comments
In an attempt to bring some kind of excitement to the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man sequel, Deadline reports that Paul Giamatti is in talks to take on a villainous role. Giamatti, who makes anything he appears in substantially better, is discussing the role of Rhino, a super villain amusingly described as one of the ‘dimmest’ bad […]
Continue readingMobster mash – Gangster Squad review
January 9, 2013 0 Comments
Gangster Squad – Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, and Sean Penn. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Fledgling director Ruben Fleischer must have thought he was living in a dream on the first day of shooting Gangster Squad, like an Ohio girl with big eyes and bigger dreams stepping off the bus […]
Continue readingShailene Woodley might be Mary Jane in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
October 12, 2012 0 Comments
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is moving ahead at… well, an amazing pace really, and Variety recently revealed that the Mary Jane character is set to appear and also speculated on possible villains. Shailene Woodley is apparently the top choice to play the role of Peter Parker’s infamous crush after Kirsten Dunst defined the character in […]
Continue readingMarc Webb set for The Amazing Spider-Man 2
October 3, 2012 0 Comments
The suitably named Marc Webb will return to direct the next Spider-Man film after extended negotiations, Variety reports. It was inevitable that we would see a sequel to the recent Spider-Man reboot starring Andrew Garfield. As well as making bucket-loads of money, the film itself often felt like an extended set up for future instalments. […]
Continue readingCameron Crowe working on Beautiful Boy
August 27, 2012 0 Comments
Though it’s been on his ‘To Do’ list for years, Cameron Crowe is finally getting to work on an adaptation of David Sheff’s best-seller Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction. According to The Wrap, Crowe is set to direct Beautiful Boy once he wraps the romantic-comedy Deep Tiki, starring Emma Stone. Beautiful Boy is a unique project, in […]
Continue readingEmma Stone starring in new Cameron Crowe film
August 1, 2012 1 Comment
Emma Stone will star in Cameron Crowe’s new film for Sony Pictures, Deadline reports. The bubbly star of The Amazing Spider-Man and The Help will lead the as yet untitled picture, a love story written and directed by Crowe (We Bought a Zoo), with Scott Rudin producing. With zero plot points revealed it’s only been […]
Continue readingTwice bitten – The Amazing Spider-Man review
July 3, 2012 5 Comments
The Amazing Spider-Man – Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Rhys Ifans. Directed by Marc Webb. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Comic book characters get rebooted all the time, and that’s perfectly fine. Different writers and illustrators are entrusted with reimagining new beginnings, or adding twists to the basic template set eons earlier. Individual authors […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Gangster Squad
May 10, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Ruben Fleischer‘s Gangster Squad, starring Sean Penn as mob boss Mickey Cohen and Josh Brolin as the cop tasked with taking him down, has arrived online. Joining Brolin in the hunt for Penn is Ryan Gosling, Giovanni Ribisi, and Anthony Mackie. Emma Stone plays Cohen’s moll, and winds up in bed with her Crazy, Stupid, Love co-star Gosling (again!). Fleischer is […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Amazing Spider-Man
May 4, 2012 0 Comments
With all those Avengers and one very depressed Dark Knight arriving in cinemas this year, audiences may have forgotten about poor, newly rebooted Peter Parker and his Spidey-powers. Ironic considering that Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man series was once the powerhouse movie franchise. So, on the eve of The Avengers U.S. release comes a brand new trailer for Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man, chock full of action, gravitas, and The […]
Continue readingRyan Gosling and Emma Stone get in Focus
April 23, 2012 0 Comments
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone might reunite with their Crazy, Stupid, Love directors for a new comedy called Focus. According to Deadline, writer-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa have set up the project at Warner Bros, and they hope to draft their former stars for the new tale. The picture tells of a veteran con-man […]
Continue readingHollywood’s leading ladies line up to marry Depp’s Thin Man
March 30, 2012 2 Comments
It seems Hollywood’s finest actresses are in the running to star opposite Johnny Depp in Rob Marshall‘s The Thin Man, Deadline reports. Depp will star as former private eye and current drunk Nick Charles. Though no one has yet been offered the part of Nick’s wife Nora, here is the list of ladies meeting with Marshall next […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Amazing Spider-Man
February 8, 2012 2 Comments
The feature trailer for Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man has arrived online, featuring a glut of new footage for those tired of poring over the teaser. The trailer, as well as some bonus footage and Q&As with the cast and filmmakers, was simultaneously debuted by Sony Pictures across the world at an event entitled The […]
Continue readingWhat’s crazy got to do with it? – Crazy Stupid Love review
January 24, 2012 0 Comments
Crazy Stupid Love – Starring Steve Carell, Julianne Moore and Ryan Gosling. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Rated M. Originally published September 30, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Crazy Stupid Love (or, in its official and confusingly punctuated form: Crazy, Stupid, Love.) often feels like the American version of Love Actually (or should that be Love, Actually; this is frustrating). That is perhaps an unfair dig at Crazy Stupid Love, and too much […]
Continue readingThe 10 most exciting films of 2012
January 4, 2012 12 Comments
The 10 most exciting films of 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Apocalyptic Mayan prophecies be damned; we’re mighty excited for 2012. Not only will we get to see if Roland Emmerich’s vision of complete tectonic-destruction comes true (might be fun?), but we’ll also be treated to a batch of awesome-sounding feature films in the lead-up. Here […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: The Amazing Spider-Man
December 12, 2011 0 Comments
The first official poster for Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man has arrived online, courtesy of Superhero Hype, and it shows off Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) sans Spidey suit. Bold choice! The one-sheets for the original Spider-Man trilogy rarely showed Tobey Maguire without his Spider-spandex, so this seems to be a direct attempt by Sony to distance this flick […]
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