A feature trailer for David Fincher’s Gone Girl has arrived online. Though it’s not quite as ambiguous and unsettling as the ‘She’-scored teaser, it skilfully navigates around the source novel’s major twists, highlighting the impressive supporting cast. It also further makes the case that Ben Affleck might be perfectly cast as the widely-despised, suspicious husband of a missing woman (Rosamund Pike), […]
Continue reading‘Gone Girl’ author discusses the movie’s altered ending
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn caused a stir when she suggested a total reworking of her book’s third act in David Fincher’s upcoming film adaptation. She’s since backtracked slightly in a recent Reddit AMA, saying, “those reports have been greatly exaggerated.” Flynn continues: “The script has to be different from the book in some ways […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The World’s End
The teaser trailer for The World’s End, director Edgar Wright’s latest collaboration with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, has arrived online. The trio has described their long-awaited follow-up to zombie spoof Shaun of the Dead and cop-movie satire Hot Fuzz as the final instalment of their Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. As you may be able to guess by it’s title, […]
Continue readingCrime cop – Jack Reacher review
Jack Reacher – Starring Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, and Werner Herzog. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Jack Reacher is trash, but since when is that a bad thing? Christopher McQuarrie‘s adaptation of Lee Child’s One Shot follows in the footsteps of those convoluted John Grisham and Dan Brown books that are […]
Continue readingRosamund Pike in Edgar Wright’s The World’s End
Rosamund Pike will join Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for the final instalment of Edgar Wright‘s “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, The World’s End. According to The Daily Mail, Pike will flex her funny bone in an as-yet unspecified role. Pegg, Frost, and Wright have long described their apocalyptic The World’s End as the final instalment of a trilogy that began with zombie […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Wrath of the Titans
The trailer for the Clash of the Titans sequel Wrath of the Titans has arrived online, set to the tune of Marilyn Manson’s cover of Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). Titans 2 sees a permed Sam Worthington return as Perseus, a decade older since the events of Clash. Although the demigod just wants to […]
Continue readingTrailer and Poster Debut: The Big Year
The trailer and poster for David Frankel‘s The Big Year – starring Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson – have debuted online. Although these three actors don’t quite deliver the yuks these days as they once did, it’s hard not to be a little excited about their team-up. The trio star as three dudes all […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Johnny English Reborn
Remember Johnny English, that other bumbling character created by Rowan Atkinson? He’s back, eight years after his last cinema engagement, in Johnny English Reborn. It hardly needs to be said the James Bond-inspired Johnny English is nowhere near as iconic or beloved a creation as Atkinson’s Mr. Bean or even Blackadder. However, the international success of […]
Continue reading‘Basterd’ Fassbender considering roles in Spider-Man; X-Men
Michael Fassbender is, without a doubt, one of the best and most exciting actors working today. He blew us away in Steve McQueen‘s Hunger and Andrea Arnold‘s Fish Tank, and became the all-time most badass on-screen movie critic in Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds. He’s now being courted by two major studios for starring roles in […]
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