By Simon Miraudo June 10, 2014 The Rover is a hugely stressful tone poem in which on-screen characters are constantly being shot and killed by off-screen characters. That precise trick made for a startling capper to David Michôd‘s breakout hit Animal Kingdom, and he trots it out again several times in his theatrical follow-up. It’s […]
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Sydney Film Festival unveils its 2014 program
May 7, 2014 
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The Sydney Film Festival’s 2014 program has been loosed upon the world, boasting the Australian debut of David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom follow-up The Rover and Richard Linklater’s decade-spanning Boyhood, as well as hotly anticipated international titles such as Bong Joon-ho’s first English-language effort, Snowpiercer, and the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night, starring Marion Cotillard. All four of those features will screen in SFF’s official competition, alongside 20,000 Days on […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Rover
January 30, 2014 0 Comments
Here is your first look at The Rover, David Michôd’s follow-up to his hugely successful Australian crime thriller Animal Kingdom. Michôd has reunited with his Kingdom star Guy Pearce for this one, which looks just as stressful and grim as their last collaboration. In the flick, Pearce plays a man searching for a prized possessions in a dystopian wasteland. Another of AK‘s alum, Joel […]
Continue readingThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II honoured as Worst Picture at Razzies
February 26, 2013 0 Comments
The Razzies didn’t let The Twilight Saga slink off without due recognition in their annual pre-Oscars shaming and celebrating of the year’s worst films and performances. The final instalment in the series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II, took home an impressive seven awards, not able to emulate the success of the previous year’s […]
Continue readingThe Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 nominated for all the Razzies
January 9, 2013 1 Comment
The Twilight Saga came to a close last year, and the Razzies are farewelling it with a gift basket full of scorn. Breaking Dawn Part 2 has dominated the 33rd annual Golden Raspberry Award nominations, collecting 11 nods across 10 categories. Despite their pledge to celebrate the very worst in film, the Razzies have mostly […]
Continue readingSlow death – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 review
November 16, 2012 1 Comment
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 – Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. Directed by Bill Condon. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. And stay dead! If any event necessitated a Return of the Jedi style Ewok orgy, it’s the staking of the abysmal Twilight Saga. Director Bill Condon wraps up the final […]
Continue readingSafe from penetration – Cosmopolis review
August 3, 2012 1 Comment
Cosmopolis – Starring Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, and Sarah Gadon. Directed by David Cronenberg. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. A young genius discovers a series of patterns in the stock market, condenses it to an equation, and capitalises on it. A billionaire by twenty-something, his abilities to predict the world’s finances are undone by the […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part 2
June 25, 2012 0 Comments
The first theatrical trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has been released, whetting fans’ appetites for the film’s November 16 release. In the final instalment of Stephenie Meyer’s saga, directed by Bill Condon, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) are happily married and are “both the same temperature” now that Bella […]
Continue readingTwilight won’t be rebooted anytime soon
June 18, 2012 3 Comments
Summit Entertainment has told Deadline there are no plans to reboot the soon-to-conclude Twilight saga. Rumours have been swirling online – as rumours as wont to do – that Summit’s parent company Lionsgate plan to reboot the vampiric love story on the fifth anniversary of the original film’s release. Summit’s official comment is thus: ”We […]
Continue readingRobert Pattinson denies casting in Hunger Games sequel
May 28, 2012 0 Comments
Last week the internet, as well as the hearts of all women and most men, were aflutter with rumours that two beloved YA universes were colliding: Robert Pattinson had scored a role in The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. Not so, says Pattinson. The Twilight star told USA Today from Cannes – where his new film Cosmopolis debuted – that even he briefly […]
Continue readingFrom cadaver to cad – Bel Ami review
May 23, 2012 0 Comments
Bel Ami – Starring Robert Pattinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Christina Ricci. Directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Bel Ami tells the saucy story of Georges Duroy’s (Robert Pattinson) ascension in French society through his connections with some of Paris’ most powerful men’s wives, and should be a no-brainer […]
Continue readingRobert Pattinson to play “mastermind” behind Saddam Hussein’s capture
May 4, 2012 0 Comments
Deadline has confirmed Robert Pattinson will star in Mission: Blacklist, to be directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and to be sold at the upcoming Cannes Film Market by Embankment Films. Erik Jendresen, who wrote and produced Band of Brothers, has adapted the screenplay from the Harper Collins novel Mission Black List #1: The Inside Story of […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2
March 28, 2012 1 Comment
A second teaser trailer for Bill Condon‘s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 has appeared online, giving fans a glimpse of vampire Bella. Following the 15-second teaser released last week comes this slightly longer 48 second clip that expands on how Bella and Edward are now the same temperature, and how surprised Jacob is […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Cosmopolis
March 23, 2012 0 Comments
Don’t call it a comeback! The French teaser trailer for David Cronenberg‘s Cosmopolis indicates a return to form for the director, who has spent much of the last decade “normalling”, particularly in contrast to the body-horror films he specialised in during the 1980s. Based on Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name, Cosmopolis follows Robert Pattinson young billionaire over the course of […]
Continue readingSneak Peek: The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2
March 21, 2012 0 Comments
The hot new trend in Hollywood seems to be releasing teasers for teasers. Thus, we present to you a 15 second sneak peek at the impending trailer for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. In honour of the super-short teaser, we’ll offer only 15 characters of commentary. It seems to focu… Sorry folks! That’s […]
Continue readingBourne to run – Abduction review
January 19, 2012 1 Comment
Abduction – Starring Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins and Alfred Molina. Directed by John Singleton. Rated M. Originally published September 22, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Hollywood loves telling us who the big new movie stars are. Sam Worthington and Ryan Reynolds have both recently been given lead roles in tentpole blockbusters, and audiences have responded as enthusiastically as an infant getting their first vaccination. “Who is this […]
Continue readingLosin’ it – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 review
November 16, 2011 7 Comments
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Directed by Bill Condon. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Let the carnal delights begin! The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is supposedly the reward for all of our suffering. Twihards have endured three movies worth of smouldering glances, […]
Continue readingBreaking Dawn Part 1 rated MA in Australia (Update: Not anymore…)
November 14, 2011 3 Comments
UPDATE: The Classification Board has overturned the rating. Hoyts Distribution has revealed The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is now merely rated M. Original story as follows. Breaking Dawn Part One – the penultimate instalment of The Twilight Saga – has scored a series-first MA 15+ rating in Australia for ‘Strong themes’. This MA rating means people under […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part One
September 14, 2011 0 Comments
The official trailer for The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part One has debuted online, featuring all the hot human/vampire action you’ve been waiting for! Like the teaser before it, this new trailer gives us a good glimpse of Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward’s (Robert Pattinson) nuptials – and, of course, the honeymoon- before hinting […]
Continue readingSee Edward and Bella on their honeymoon in new Breaking Dawn pics
August 12, 2011 0 Comments
Because we know you can’t get enough… Entertainment Weekly has released a couple new snaps of Edward and Bella on their honeymoon in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One. Sadly, these are not the Honeymoon images we really want to see. You know what we’re talking about. We look forward to seeing all the […]
Continue readingPenn Badgley to star as Jeff Buckley in biopic?
June 16, 2011 0 Comments
Back in April it was revealed that director Jake Scott would be making a biopic on the short life of musician Jeff Buckley. Although Robert Pattinson was largely considered to be frontrunner for the role, another heartthrob has seemingly snatched away the role. According to Hollywood Life (we know, we know…), Gossip Girl star Penn […]
Continue readingGus Van Sant talks about his failed Breaking Dawn audition
May 19, 2011 1 Comment
Remember last year when it was reported that Summit Entertainment were looking at hiring some esteemed, Oscar nominated directors to helm the fourth and fifth instalments of their Twilight series? Yeah, it was a weird time. Even though Dreamgirls director Bill Condon was placed in charge of Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2, it was claimed […]
Continue readingThe Jess Lomas Book Club: Water for Elephants
May 11, 2011 1 Comment
The Jess Lomas Book Club: Water for Elephants *A weekly feature in which literary connoisseur Jess Lomas examines the upcoming book-to-film adaptations worth keeping an eye on!* In what can only be described as a miracle, I have both read and seen this week’s book club selection. Okay I lie, I started reading the book […]
Continue readingSee Edward and Bella’s honeymoon snaps from Breaking Dawn
May 3, 2011 1 Comment
If you consider that headline a spoiler, well, you clearly don’t care enough about The Twilight Saga to even read this article. May I instead direct your attention to this piece on The Avengers ? For the rest of you, Summit have released a whole bunch of pictures from Breaking Dawn – Part One, the first […]
Continue readingPattinson, Timberlake and Garfield in line for Akira remake?
March 23, 2011 1 Comment
Deadline New York has revealed a shortlist of young male Hollywood talent being considered for roles in the upcoming adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s graphic novel Akira. Akira will be based on the 1988 Japanese anime, which itself was based on director Otomo’s own graphic novel of the same name. Whereas the original was set in […]
Continue readingFirst look at Edward and Bella in Breaking Dawn
January 17, 2011 3 Comments
It’s the moment Bella – and about a billion heavy-breathing Twihards – have been waiting for, and it’s been captured in all (well, not all) of its glory in this first promotional photo from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One: the wedding night. Yep, in the first half of the final instalment of the […]
Continue readingRobert Pattinson to star in Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
January 7, 2011 0 Comments
Hold onto your underwear ladies! Deadline has confirmed Robert Pattinson will replace Colin Farrell in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis. Cosmopolis, based on the novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, is the story of a young, newlywed billionaire who, over the course of 24 hours, manages to not only lose his entire fortune but cheat […]
Continue reading>Trailer Debut: Water for Elephants
December 17, 2010 1 Comment
>The Circus is coming! The Circus is coming! No, wait … that’s the British. The trailer for Francis Lawrence’s film adaptation of Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel Water for Elephants has been released and it looks, well, uninspiring. I’ve already heard it described as “Moulin Rouge meets The Notebook” with a splash of Big Fish but […]
Continue readingAnti climax – The Twilight Saga: Eclipse review
November 29, 2010 0 Comments
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Directed by David Slade. Rated M. Originally published July 5, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. To quote Detective Roger Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon, “I’m getting too old for this ****.” In just eighteen months, the Twilight saga has subjected us to one atrocious […]
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