Hot air guitar – ‘Jimi: All is by My Side’ Review

By Jess Lomas August 13, 2014 Before Jimi Hendrix (Andre Benjamin) lit his guitar on fire at Monterey Pop Festival, or played Woodstock, he wore cheetah-print shirts in a struggling R&B band. So says John Ridley’s Jimi: All Is by My Side, a biopic that tries to be as independent and free spirited as its […]

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Hayley Atwell to star in 10 Things I Hate About You spinoff

Here’s a weird one. 10 Things I Hate About You director Gil Junger is set to helm a spinoff entitled 10 Things I Hate About Life, with Hayley Atwell (Captain America) attached to star.  Junger penned the semi-sequel, which “advances the situations” from the original 1999 pic. But there’s a dark, suicidal twist. “Two people who go to the […]

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Nation’s pride – Captain America: The First Avenger review

Captain America: The First Avenger – Starring Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell and Hugo Weaving. Directed by Joe Johnston. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. When it was announced that Marvel Studios would begin production on a Captain America movie, the idea seemed ludicrous. Captain America is the paragon of all things ‘USA’, and in this ultra-cynical […]

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Trailer Debut: Captain America – The First Avenger

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, […]

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First (official) look at Captain America!

The first official images from Joe Johnston‘s Captain America: The First Avenger have debuted online. They offer us our first glimpse at Chris Evans as legendary Marvel comic hero Steve Rogers/Captain America, as well as Hayley Atwell as his love interest and Hugo Weaving as the villainous Red Skull. The pics first emerged in Empire […]

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