‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ trailer full of ‘Back to the Future 2’-style shenanigans

The sequel to Hot Tub Time Machine you didn’t realise you had asked for hits cinemas next January. For those who are eagerly waiting for it – okay, I’m one of them – this new Red Band trailer should suffice. The picture sees Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and Clark Duke reeling from the events of […]

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The write stuff – Adult World review

By Glenn Dunks March 20, 2014 Finally, pornography peddling poets get a film all their own in Scott Coffey’s frisky comedy, Adult World. Amy (Emma Roberts) is a wannabe poet superstar, the kind who thinks she’s the next great artiste and who wouldn’t commit suicide by sticking her head in the oven because that would […]

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Serial offender – The Frozen Ground review

By Richard Haridy December 10, 2013 After years of running a successful advertising agency in New Zealand, Scott Walker decided he wanted to become a film director and began researching the case of Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen, who raped and murdered at least 17 women throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. Now Walker offers […]

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Trailer Debut: The Butler

Lee Daniels is a strange filmmaker, and, from the looks of this recently released trailer, the strangest thing about his latest film, The Butler, is how conventional it appears. Forest Whitaker stars as Eugene Allen in this true story of one man who served as a butler in the White House to eight separate presidents […]

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Trash talk – The Paperboy review

By Simon Miraudo February 26, 2013 Lee Daniels’ Precious was showered with acclaim, yet his follow-up, The Paperboy, has become something of a punch line amongst critics and moviegoers. Sometimes I don’t understand this industry. No one was even peed on in Precious! Despite Gabourey Sidibe’s fine performance in that supposed slice of realist drama, Daniels’ directorial flourishes manipulated the audience – […]

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Hot Tub Time Machine might get a sequel

Look, I liked Hot Tub Time Machine, but even I think this is a little unnecessary. According to The Hollywood Reporter, MGM is in “exploratory talks” with Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, and Clark Duke – but not John Cusack – to reprise their roles in a sequel. Prior to HTTM‘s release, the much-buzzed about script and descriptive title caught the internet’s […]

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John Cusack to play shock jock Rush Limbaugh

The Hollywood Reporter confirms John Cusack is developing a biopic about right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh and will also star in the film. With a working title of Rush, Cusack’s production company New Crime Productions has already announced the film’s director will be Betty Thomas (The Brady Bunch Movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel). […]

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Play It Again – The Breakfast Club

Play It Again – The Breakfast Club. Starring Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall. Directed by John Hughes. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or […]

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Crispin Glover checks into Motel

Back to the Future alum Crispin Glover will join John Cusack and Robert De Niro in the indie thriller Motel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film concerns a hit man (Cusack) hired by a crime boss (De Niro) to battle a bunch of “shadowy characters” in a motel in the Delta bayous. Martin Klebba and Rebecca De Costa also star […]

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Oprah Winfrey considering a return to the big screen

Oprah Winfrey is reported to be considering a return to acting and is eyeing Lee Daniels’ The Butler for her silver screen comeback. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the former talk show host is mulling over an offer to co-star in the Daniels directed story of Eugene Allen, a black butler who worked at the […]

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Cameron Crowe considering Say Anything sequel?

Might Cameron Crowe bring Lloyd Dobler back to the big screen? Will we have yet another opportunity to see a lovelorn John Cusack standing in the rain, flicking his coat collar up, as he is wont to do?  Speaking during the Television Critics Association press tour for his new Pearl Jam documentary, Crowe was asked if he […]

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Cusack and Cage to star in serial killer flick

John Cusack and Nicolas Cage are in discussions to star in the serial killer movie The Frozen Ground. According to Deadline, Cusack would play real-life Alaskan predator Robert Hanson, “a respected family man who for over 12 years abducted more than 24 women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness to be hunted. Cage would […]

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>First look at John Cusack in The Raven

>The first official promo shot of John Cusack as Edgar Allen Poe in James McTeigue’s The Raven has been released by The Huffington Post. The film will be a fictionalised account of gothic author Poe’s final days surrounding his involvement in the hunt for a serial killer and his subsequent mysterious death. We covered the […]

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John Cusack to go Poe

John Cusack is set to play Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue‘s The Raven, a fictionalised account of the writer’s mysterious final days. Cusack revealed the news via Twitter, with prose that fails to capture the profundity of the man he will soon embody: “officiali- will play edgar allen poe in fall-a-film called the raven, […]

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Cusack through the ages – Hot Tub Time Machine review.

Hot Tub Time Machine – Starring John Cusack, Craig Robinson and Rob Cordry. Directed by Steve Pink. Rated MA. Originally published April 20. By Simon Miraudo. Hot Tub Time Machine is the definitive comedy of the past decade. Hmm, maybe ‘definitive’ is a bit generous. I’m not claiming that it’s the best or even the […]

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