By Richard Haridy September 3, 2013 Nearly 20 years after his all-star horror blockbuster Interview With The Vampire, director Neil Jordan returns to the genre with this boldly classical take on one of fiction’s ever-present tales. Byzantium is an elegant spin on vampire mythology seemingly designed to act as a reactionary statement against the trite, […]
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New York Stories – I’m So Excited / Byzantium / 20 Feet from Stardom
July 3, 2013 
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By Glenn Dunks July 2, 2013 There’s a wide world of cinema out there, and Quickflix’s Glenn Dunks is on the ground in New York City bringing you the titles that will soon be seen in Australian cinemas, and eventually available on home entertainment. The Manhattan Report: So many movies, so little time. New retrospectives pop up […]
Continue readingAll of we – The Host review
March 28, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 28, 2013 Of the three handsome, indistinguishable bachelors in The Host, two viciously strike our heroine, while the other settles on strangulation. That she is merely an alien inhabiting a human body doesn’t make the acts – or their frequency – any less jarring to a reasonable viewer. Several “make-out” sequences […]
Continue readingRonan, Vikander, and Wilde vie for Cinderella
December 4, 2012 0 Comments
Saoirse Ronan, Alicia Vikander, and Gabriella Wilde will face off for the titular role in Mark Romanek’s live action Cinderella, according to Variety’s Jeff Sneider. Ronan, star of the upcoming The Host from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, was set to star in an upcoming retelling of Snow White called The Order of the Seven until […]
Continue readingPoster and Trailer Debut: The Host
November 14, 2012 0 Comments
Just as the final film in The Twilight Saga is released in cinemas, bringing that franchise to a close, the poster and second trailer for author Stephenie Meyer’s follow up, The Host, conveniently appear. The poster looks to set up Meyer’s penchant for a good teenage love triangle, however Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan), though wedged […]
Continue readingDisney abandons their Snow White project
May 23, 2012 1 Comment
Perhaps coming to their senses after realising there were already two separate Snow White films out this year (!), Disney have abandoned their plans to make a version of the tale. According to Deadline, the Mouse House has nixed Order of the Seven, in which Saoirse Ronan was to play the lead. The pic differentiated from playful Mirror Mirror and […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The Host
March 23, 2012 2 Comments
The teaser trailer for Andrew Niccol‘s adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host has arrived online. Though Meyer is best known for her blockbuster Twilight series, her novel The Host was similarly a hit upon release in 2008. The pic stars Saoirse Ronan as Melanie Stryder, a young woman who is rebelling against an alien invasion on Earth. Check out the teaser, which is […]
Continue readingThe Host picks its male leads
November 11, 2011 0 Comments
Max Irons and Jake Abel have scored the lead male roles in the upcoming adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s sci-fi novel The Host. According to EW, Irons (Red Riding Hood) will play the boyfriend of Melanie Stryder (Saoirse Ronan). Abel (Tru Loved) plays Ian, a young man who falls for the alien Wanderer that possesses Melanie’s […]
Continue readingLiam Hemsworth could invade The Host
November 3, 2011 0 Comments
Liam Hemsworth tops the list of actors being considered for the Andrew Niccol-directed adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host, Variety reports. With Meyer’s Twlight Saga coming to an end and Niccol’s latest film In Time now in cinemas, attention has been turned to their upcoming project: adapting Meyer’s mammoth sci-fi novel to the big screen. […]
Continue readingSaoirse Ronan to star in Twilight author’s The Host
May 4, 2011 3 Comments
Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, Hanna) has scored the lead role in the upcoming adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s follow up to the Twilight saga, The Host. According to Deadline, Ronan is attached to a package that also includes a script by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, The Truman Show). Deadline also suggests Niccol might direct. The film’s executive producers, […]
Continue reading>Saorise Ronan cast in The Hobbit?
January 28, 2011 1 Comment
>Saorise Ronan (Atonement, Hanna) has reportedly been cast in Peter Jackson’s long-delayed adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Although Ronan had long been rumoured to be involved in the project, it was confirmed by casting director Ros Hubbard in an interview with IFTN. Interestingly, Ronan denied being offered a role in The Hobbit only last […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Hanna
December 22, 2010 2 Comments
Raised on anger and seclusion in the middle of a Finnish forest by father Erik Heller (Eric Bana), fourteen-year-old Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is an isolated killing machine. Set upon fulfilling her father’s vendetta against CIA operative Marissa Wiegler (Cate Blanchett), it seems the seclusion, at least, is about to change. Icy and dramatic and, by […]
Continue readingOverkill – The Lovely Bones review
December 23, 2009 2 Comments
The Lovely Bones – Starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci and Mark Wahlberg. Directed by Peter Jackson. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Peter Jackson is no stranger to the pressures of adapting a book to film. His last effort at such a task earned him a number of Academy Awards, millions of dollars at the box […]
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