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Poster Debut: Dom Hemingway, featuring Jude Law and a monkey

Jude Law would like to remind you that he’s Dom Hemingway, and you’re not, in the poster for his upcoming feature (courtesy of Vulture). The tagline seems to be inspired by Chevy Chase’s famous Saturday Night Live Weekend Update sign off. Law’s striking pose, however, is all him, baby. Dom Hemingway tells the story of […]

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Bradley Cooper exits cursed western Jane Got a Gun

Bradley Cooper is the latest actor to exit the seemingly cursed production of Jane Got a Gun. According to Deadline, Cooper bowed out of the feature on account of scheduling conflicts with David O. Russell’s American Hustle. In an official statement, he said “I am unable to join Natalie [Portman, producer and star], Joel [Edgerton], […]

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Jude Law exits Jane Got a Gun after director Lynne Ramsay fails to show up for work

Things are happening on the set of Natalie Portman’s western Jane Got a Gun. Deadline yesterday revealed that director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) failed to show up for the first day of work on her new film. Producer Scott Steindorff – who, it should be said, is the only person from the picture to […]

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Sexual nightmares and sleep crime – Side Effects review

By Simon Miraudo March 11, 2013 Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects begins as one thing, and then ends as something else entirely. Over the course of its 106 minutes, the feature evolves from an icy, haunting tale of depression and abandonment into a squalid, sordid, serpentine Alfred Hitchcock pastiche. That it can glide from these two […]

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Life is a theatre set – Anna Karenina review

By Jess Lomas February 12, 2013 Adapting one of literature’s greatest tragedies is no easy feat, as Joe Wright’s take on Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina repeatedly demonstrates. While the picture soars creatively, giving us some of the most exquisite sequences of recent times, it lacks the burning passion necessary to raise this from a pretty […]

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Animators, assemble – Rise of the Guardians review

Rise of the Guardians – Featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, and Chris Pine. Directed by Peter Ramsey. Rated PG. By Jess Lomas. ’twas several nights before Easter when all through the land, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and Sandman gathered to make a plan. Children had stopped believing as the […]

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Trailer Debut: Side Effects

The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s latest pharmaceutical thriller, Side Effects, has arrived online. Though the teaser is largely ambiguous, from what we know of the picture, Rooney Mara stars as the wife of a convict (Channing Tatum) who develops a drug dependency in the lead-up to his release. Written by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion), Side Effects may well end up Soderbergh’s last […]

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Angela Lansbury joins Bill Murray for Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel

According to reports in UK magazine The Gentle Woman (courtesy of The Film Stage), Angela Lansbury has landed a role in Wes Anderson‘s next symmetry-fest, The Grand Budapest Hotel. While Ms Murder She Wrote is quoted as saying it is a small role, she is joining what’s turning into a pretty epic cast that includes the recently […]

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Trailer Debut: Anna Karenina

Our first glimpse of Joe Wright’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s classic Anna Karenina has arrived with the film’s official trailer, and it screams Oscar. Using his Atonement and Pride and Prejudice leading lady, Keira Knightley plays the titular Anna, an aristocrat whose voice over opens the trailer by saying “I was 18 when I got […]

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Still crazy – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Jared Harris. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Rated M. Originally published January 3, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. You didn’t have to be a master detective to deduce the fact that a sequel to the surprisingly good Sherlock Holmes would […]

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It’s a sick, sick, sick, sick world – Contagion review

Contagion – Starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. Originally published October 19, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Contagion is the last movie you want to see with a sore throat. Or maybe it’s the first movie you want to see with a sore throat. What could possibly top the sensory, 4-D, cinema-going experience of feeling your tonsils swell […]

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Rooney Mara to team with Steven Soderbergh for Side Effects

The newly Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara has booked her first post-Dragon Tattoo role, and it ain’t shabby. The ingénue will take the lead role in Steven Soderbergh‘s pharmaceutical thriller Side Effects (formerly titled Bitter Pill), Deadline reports. Mara is replacing Blake Lively in the picture, which is also set to star Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. […]

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Still crazy – Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Jared Harris. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. You didn’t have to be a master detective to deduce the fact that a sequel to the surprisingly good Sherlock Holmes would be speedily produced following its box office success […]

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Warner Bros preps Sherlock Holmes 3

Although Guy Ritchie’s second Sherlock Holmes film is still a few months away from hitting cinemas, Warner Bros are showing a massive sign of confidence in the franchise by hiring a screenwriter to begin work on a third instalment. According to Deadline, Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) is set to pen the next adventure featuring […]

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It’s a sick, sick, sick, sick world – Contagion review

Contagion – Starring Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne and Jennifer Ehle. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Contagion is the last movie you want to see with a sore throat. Or maybe it’s the first movie you want to see with a sore throat. What could possibly top the sensory, 4-D, cinema-going experience […]

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Joe Wright and Keira Knightley reunite for Anna Karenina

Director Joe Wright is set to reteam with his Atonement and Pride and Prejudice star Keira Knightley for an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s legendary novel Anna Karenina. According to Deadline, Knightley – who scored an Oscar nomination for P&P under Wright’s direction – will play the title character; a young married woman who has an […]

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Poster Debut: Contagion

So, ahem, PANIC! The posters for Steven Soderbergh‘s viral outbreak thriller Contagion have debuted online, and they certainly don’t instil calm. The six major character posters capitalise on the all-star cast, specifically Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet (we’ll just have to hope co-stars John Hawkes and Bryan Cranston will get their own in the near future). To see […]

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Trailer Debut: Hugo

The trailer for Martin Scorsese‘s 3-D family adventure Hugo has debuted online. Formerly titled Hugo Cabret (and The Invention of Hugo Cabret before that), it is based on the much-loved book by Brian Selznick. Asa Butterfield stars as the eponymous orphan who befriends a young girl (Chloe Moretz) and discovers the invention of an old eccentric (Ben Kingsley). […]

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Trailer Debut: Contagion

Germaphobes, look away! The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s apocalyptic viral outbreak thriller Contagion has debuted online, and it will make you want to cut off all contact with the rest of the human race. Penned by Scott Z. Burns, the film features a cavalcade of stars dealing with a highly contagious and fatal case of […]

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Teaser Debut: Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows

The teaser trailer for Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows has debuted online, not only showing Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law back in action as Holmes and Watson, but also offering us our first glimpse of Noomi Rapace as French gypsy Sim and Jared Harris as Holmes’ nemesis Moriarty. It’s a good looking teaser, […]

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Poster Debut: Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows

The first character posters for Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows have debuted online, courtesy of Yahoo.  Although they primarily show off our heroes Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and Watson (Jude Law), they’re more notable for giving us our first glimpse of Sherlock’s nemesis Moriarty (Jared Harris) and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo‘s […]

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First look at Sherlock Holmes 2

What do you do when your Sherlock Holmes reboot is a smashing success? It’s elementary my dear Watson – you make a sequel. The first official image for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes second jaunt, currently untitled, has been released and it’s, well, a bit of a mystery. Reprising their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr […]

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I will repossess your heart – Repo Men review

Repo Men – Starring Jude Law, Forest Whitaker and Alice Braga. Directed by Miguel Sapochnik. Rated R. By Simon Miraudo. “You wouldn’t steal a car. You wouldn’t steal a handbag. You wouldn’t steal a movie…” Well, hang on now. Those anti-piracy warnings shouldn’t simply be reserved for the download-happy consumers at home. Occasionally filmmakers are […]

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Rapace to star in Sherlock Holmes 2

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo herself, Noomi Rapace, is set to make her English-language film debut. The Swedish actress has nabbed a high-profile part in Sherlock Holmes 2, as the female lead alongside Robert Downey Jr. According to Heat Vision, Rapace’s casting is the result of her recent visit to Los Angeles, in which […]

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Saving Sherlock – Sherlock Holmes review

Sherlock Holmes – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Rated M. Originally published December 27, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. Well, well, well, what’s all this then? A smart action movie? I’m already suspicious. Just what are you hiding Holmes? Padding in the second act? A lazy dénouement? Come […]

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Saving Sherlock – Sherlock Holmes review

Sherlock Holmes – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Well, well, well, what’s all this then? A smart action movie? I’m already suspicious. Just what are you hiding Holmes? Padding in the second act? A lazy dénouement? Come on, out with it! Since […]

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Elementary! Sherlock Holmes trailer debut!

source: traileraddict.comThe first trailer for Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes has debuted online, starring Robert Downey Jr as the famed detective and Jude Law as his loyal partner Watson. The picture looks as if it features the same visual flair that Ritchie has displayed in his previous geezer-features, although it’s refreshing to see it used in […]

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Brand new Sherlock Holmes pics!

source: usatoday.comA bunch of new images from Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes reboot has landed online, featuring stars Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law and Rachel McAdams in all their olde-time glory! The film stars Robert Downey Jr as the bohemian, martial arts loving detective Sherlock Holmes, and Jude Law as his bourgeois, recently engaged sidekick Watson. […]

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Heath’s Final Film is an Imaginarium Explosion

source: traileraddict.com A very strange semi-teaser trailer for Terry Gilliam‘s latest film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has hit the web. The two and a half mintue clip is led by Gilliam himself, who takes us through his incredible plans for his latest movie. Unfortunately, there is little footage from the actual film itself, and […]

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