Tag Archives: katherine heigl

Katherine Heigl to investigate puppet murders

Katherine Heigl is in “advanced negotiations” to star in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit-sounding new film The Happytime Murders, Deadline reports. The picture, written by Todd Berger, features a world in which puppets and humans co-exist, but where puppets are second-class citizens. When the cast of a 1980s puppet show are murdered one by one, […]

Continue reading

Should old acquaintance be forgot? – New Year’s Eve review

New Year’s Eve – Starring Hilary Swank, Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Jessica Parker. Directed by Garry Marshall. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. These movies must be really easy to write. You know the kind. They’ve got a countless number of tangentially-related stock characters portrayed by typecast actors (saves time normally spent on characterisation!) who make […]

Continue reading

The 10 least threatening movie killers

The 10 least threatening movie killers. By Simon Miraudo. Is there a more lovable actor than Steve Carell working today? We think not. Don’t you just want to cuddle him?! He’s abandoned his post at The Office and is now looking for more serious feature film fare, such as the recently announced Foxcatcher in which […]

Continue reading

Trailer Debut: One for the Money

The trailer for Katherine Heigl’s latest romantic comedy, The Bounty Hunter One for the Money, has been released and sees Heigl don a brunette hairdo, learn to shoot a gun and talk in a New Jersey accent. Based on the bestselling series by Janet Evanovich, Heigl plays Stephanie Plum, the recently divorced, recently fired, down […]

Continue reading

Seth Rogen won’t appear in Knocked Up spin-off

Judd Apatow is busy at work on his Knocked Up spin-off (tentatively titled This is Forty), which focuses on Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann), the disgruntled married couple who supported Ben (Seth Rogen) and Alison (Katherine Heigl) during their pregnancy in the 2006 box office hit. Rogen has told Movies.com that he will […]

Continue reading

Trailer Debut: New Year’s Eve

Everyone in Hollywood is falling for everyone else in Hollywood, in the first trailer for New Year’s Eve. The producers of Valentine’s Day have reunited with their director Garry Marshall to bring us another one-night-only tale in which seemingly the entire constellation of celebrities attempt to hook up with one another. VD alum Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel and Hector Elizondo are […]

Continue reading

Death blow – Killers review

Killers – Starring Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl and Tom Selleck. Directed by Robert Luketic. Rated M. Originally published July 28, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Killers is what I like to call a ‘perspective’ film. Sometimes in this profession, it’s easy to get into the habit of nitpicking truly great films (such as Toy Story 3 […]

Continue reading

Death blow – Killers review

Killers – Starring Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl and Tom Selleck. Directed by Robert Luketic. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Killers is what I like to call a ‘perspective’ film. Sometimes in this profession, it’s easy to get into the habit of nitpicking truly great films (such as Toy Story 3 and Inception) and arguing the […]

Continue reading

The Rundown: April 8-14

Hey Quickflixers! Welcome to the latest installment of The Rundown, a new feature that will appear on the blog every Wednesday, highlighting our favourite news items from the past 7 days, as well as notable box office and weekly rental figures. So, what did we learn this week? Harrison Ford was cast in Cowboys and […]

Continue reading

Katherine Heigl’s guide to imaginative movie posters

Well, at least she has a different hairdo. Discuss: Which actor would you like to see Heigl standing beside in front of a white background next?

Continue reading

Inner ugliness – The Ugly Truth DVD review

The Ugly Truth – Starring Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler and Cheryl Hines. Directed by Robert Luketic. Rated MA. Originally published August 6, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. For as long as there has been romance, there have been romantic comedies. It all began in the Bible, with a cheeky nude romp starring sensible Adam and his […]

Continue reading