By Simon Miraudo March 4, 2013 Following on from Alfonso Cuaron‘s modern update of Great Expectations, Mike Newell becomes the latest director (and second Harry Potter helmer) to try his hand at Charles Dickens’ classic novel. He returns the tale to its 19th century roots, and casts notorious scene gobblers Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, […]
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Teaser Debut: The Lone Ranger
October 5, 2012 
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The teaser for Gore Verbinski’s super-expensive Lone Ranger has arrived online. Though the project was originally nixed by Disney on account on the inflated price tag, Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer whittled it down to something more palatable. The trailer doesn’t reveal much, except for the fact that the movie exists; frankly, considering its troubled production history, […]
Continue readingStaying alive – Dark Shadows review
May 8, 2012 2 Comments
Dark Shadows – Starring Johnny Depp, Eva Green, and Michelle Pfeiffer. Directed by Tim Burton. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Dark Shadows is Tim Burton‘s best film in a decade. You’d have to go all the way back to Big Fish, or perhaps even 1999’s Sleepy Hollow to find anything comparable in quality. That might be […]
Continue readingThe top 10 Tim Burton films
May 4, 2012 1 Comment
The top 10 Tim Burton films. By Simon Miraudo. Few filmmakers have developed as fervent a following as Tim Burton. There’s just something about the scraggly haired hit-maker that connects with outcasts and, erm, incasts alike. Maybe it’s because many still see him as the oddball kid hiding away from his parents and the outside […]
Continue readingAn unsatisfying meal – Toast review
April 26, 2012 0 Comments
Toast – Starring Oscar Kennedy, Helena Bonham Carter, and Freddie Highmore. Directed by S.J. Clarkson. Rated M. By Hilary Simmons. Toast is now available on DVD. There are surely worse things in life than to grow up eating toast. When ruminative grandparents recount their tales of walking six miles in the snow or sharing one […]
Continue readingSee Hugh Jackman as Valjean in Les Misérables
March 28, 2012 0 Comments
Hugh Jackman has revealed, via his Twitter account, the first official image of Jean Valjean in Tom Hooper‘s upcoming Les Misérables adaptation. Beardy! Jackman stars as ex-prisoner Valjean, opposite Russell Crowe‘s policemen Javert, Anne Hathaway‘s factory worker Fantine, and Amanda Seyfried as her daughter Cosette. Samantha Banks, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Helena Bonham Carter also […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Dark Shadows
March 16, 2012 1 Comment
What’s that now? The trailer for Tim Burton‘s adaptation of 70s soap opera Dark Shadows makes it look like a barrel of demented fun? We wouldn’t have believed it either, unless we’d seen it with our own eyes… We’ve been unimpressed by much of Burton’s cinematic output for much of the last decade, and were sceptical of his latest endeavour. […]
Continue readingFirst look at Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in The Lone Ranger
March 9, 2012 0 Comments
The first image of Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in action as Tonto and The Lone Ranger has arrived online, courtesy of producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s Twitter account. For a while there it seemed Gore Verbinski‘s super-expensive The Lone Ranger would never actually make it to the big screen, but lo and behold, visual evidence that people are […]
Continue readingFirst look at Helena Bonham Carter in Great Expectations
November 7, 2011 3 Comments
Yikes! Just when you thought she was already cranking ’11’ on the nutty scale, Helena Bonham Carter shows off her latest cinematic look. Deadline have the first images of Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham in Mike Newell’s upcoming adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. Havisham is a spinster who sits in her […]
Continue readingFirst look at the cast of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows
September 23, 2011 2 Comments
Entertainment Weekly has released the very first image from Tim Burton‘s upcoming adaptation of the cult 1960s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows. No, not that one. This one: From left to right, your cast includes Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman, Chloe Grace Moretz as Carolyn Stoddard, Eva Green as Angelique Bouchard, Gulliver McGrath […]
Continue readingThe King’s Speech sweeps the BAFTAs
February 14, 2011 0 Comments
The King’s Speech has continued its award-season sweep by taking home seven awards including Best Film and Outstanding British Film at the Orange British Academy Film Awards. Stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham-Carter were all recognised by the BAFTAs, as was the film’s Original Screenplay and Score. The only major category in which […]
Continue readingCrowning moment – The King’s Speech review
December 21, 2010 4 Comments
The King’s Speech – Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Tom Hooper. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. You too can make an Academy Award contender! All you need are these ten ingredients: 1) An inspirational true story, 2) a character with a pronounced disability, 3) Colin Firth in a leading […]
Continue readingLittle wonder – Alice in Wonderland review
June 28, 2010 1 Comment
Alice in Wonderland – Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Tim Burton. Rated PG. Originally published March 9, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Tim Burton is not the filmmaker we think he is, or at the very least, not the filmmaker he wants us to think he is. He is neither […]
Continue readingLittle wonder – Alice in Wonderland review
March 9, 2010 1 Comment
Alice in Wonderland – Starring Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Directed by Tim Burton. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. Tim Burton is not the filmmaker we think he is, or at the very least, not the filmmaker he wants us to think he is. He is neither the master-of-the-macabre, hero of the […]
Continue readingBurton’s Alice in Wonderland will literally scare your children to death
June 25, 2009 7 Comments
source: slashfilm.com Earlier this week, the first (terrifying) photos from Tim Burton‘s Alice in Wonderland debuted online. Now Slashfilm have the high resolution versions to savor, and email to your worst/most sensitive enemies. The images are, in a word, spectacular. In my opinion, Burton has been spinning his wheels for the greater part of this […]
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