Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell are set to star as fated-lovers – if not age-appropriate ones – in black comedy Mr. Right, Deadline reports. Kendrick will play a woman who finally finds, well, ‘Mr. Right’ (Rockwell), only to discover he’s a reformed hit man. Scripted by Chronicle‘s Max Landis, Paco Cabezas is attached to direct. Cabezas’ last effort was […]
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Sydney Film Festival – The Way, Way Back review
June 7, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo June 7, 2013 Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, former Groundlings and recent Oscar winners for penning The Descendants, make their directorial debut with The Way, Way Back. A sunny, bittersweet tale marked with moments of goofy, cringe-inducing comedy and the occasional saccharine speech, it’s a clear relative of their last, Academy Award […]
Continue readingMurder, ink – Seven Psychopaths review
November 8, 2012 0 Comments
Seven Psychopaths – Starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken. Directed by Martin McDonagh. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. The funniest joke in Martin McDonagh‘s Seven Psychopaths is how it tricks viewers into thinking it’s a crime caper/gangster comedy, when it is in actuality a satire of the screenwriting process. That’s not to say […]
Continue readingDujardin, Spencer, Malick, and McConaughey now Oscar voters
July 2, 2012 0 Comments
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invites to 176 individuals, granting them voting rights in future Oscar ceremonies. Deadline has the full list of new members, including 2012 winners Jean Dujardin and Octavia Spencer, as well as recent nominees Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, and Bérénice Bejo. Industry stalwarts […]
Continue readingMickey Rourke tells director to “go play with himself”; abandons film
November 8, 2011 2 Comments
Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) just got Rourke’d! The hilariously candid Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has abandoned McDonagh’s upcoming black comedy Seven Psychopaths, citing major disagreements with the director. Rourke offered the following truth-bombs to Moviefone: “The director was a jerkoff. He wanted a whole lot for nothing… He can go play with himself.” Seven Psychopaths stars Colin […]
Continue readingMickey Rourke out of Expendables 2
October 20, 2011 0 Comments
So, not every over-the-hill action star will make an appearance in The Expendables 2. Deadline has revealed Mickey Rourke will not reprise his role from the first Expendables movie, citing a scheduling conflict with his new project (although, they suggest Rourke’s proposed paycheck was not tantalising enough, and the actor is looking for more award-worthy fare). He will […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Sitter
August 10, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for the new Jonah Hill vehicle, The Sitter (our 20th most anticipated film of 2011!), has debuted online. Actually, make that ‘trailers’. Directed by David Gordon Green – whose other 2011 flick Your Highness was released earlier in the year – The Sitter stars Hill as an ill-equipped babysitter who is hunted by a couple […]
Continue readingHe’s steel got it – Iron Man 2 review
October 5, 2010 0 Comments
Iron Man 2 – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Sam Rockwell. Directed by Jon Favreau. Rated M. Originally published April 28, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Iron Man bests the biggest adversaries of the superhero genre in his second outing: production troubles, sequel-bloat and overwhelming, unrestrained fanboy hype. Iron Man 2 – beyond all […]
Continue readingSam Rockwell’s sweet dance moves – a tribute!
May 17, 2010 1 Comment
It is certainly no exaggeration to call Sam Rockwell one of the greatest actors working today, if not one of the best actors of his generation. He has given us stirring lead performances in films such as Moon and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He has also cemented himself as one of the most interesting […]
Continue readingSam Rockwell to be a cowboy; battle aliens
May 5, 2010 0 Comments
Sam Rockwell has joined the cast of Jon Favreau‘s upcoming comic book adaptation Cowboys and Aliens. He will star alongside Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Harrison Ford. Rockwell starred in Favreau’s Iron Man 2 as villainous arms manufacturer Justin Hammer. According to HeatVision Blog, in Cowboys and Aliens he will play a barkeeper named Doc […]
Continue readingHe’s steel got it – Iron Man 2 review
April 28, 2010 1 Comment
Iron Man 2 – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Sam Rockwell. Directed by Jon Favreau. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Iron Man bests the biggest adversaries of the superhero genre in his second outing: production troubles, sequel-bloat and overwhelming, unrestrained fanboy hype. Iron Man 2 – beyond all reasonable expectations – even raises […]
Continue readingNew Iron Man 2 trailer debut
March 9, 2010 0 Comments
source: traileraddict.com A brand new trailer for Iron Man 2 has debuted online, giving us a better glimpse of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes (A.K.A War Machine). And of course, plenty of Robert Downey […]
Continue readingIron Man 2 trailer debut!
December 17, 2009 0 Comments
source: traileraddict.com The trailer for Iron Man 2 has debuted online! … what you want me to write a novel about it? You know you’ve been looking forward to it and you know it’s going to be incredible. Go watch it already! http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/17044 Indeedy. Iron Man 2 stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Mickey Rourke, […]
Continue readingIron Man 2 poster debut – with War Machine!
December 1, 2009 1 Comment
source: movies.yahoo.com The official teaser poster for Iron Man 2 has landed online, giving us our long-awaited first glimpse of War Machine. See? There he is right behind Iron Man! We reported back in February that Terence Howard would not reprise his role as Jim “Rhodey” Rhodes in the second installment of the Iron Man […]
Continue readingSam Rockwell freaks out on the Moon
April 14, 2009 1 Comment
source: traileraddict.com The trailer for Sam Rockwell‘s upcoming sci-fi thriller Moon has debuted on-line, and it looks like we may have a contender for movie of the year on our hands. Directed by Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie), Moon tells the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Rockwell), who supposedly has a mental breakdown as […]
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