By Simon Miraudo August 1, 2014 God is a woman. Well, she is now anyway. In Luc Besson‘s Lucy, Scarlett Johansson goes from doe-eyed mafia pawn to all-powerful superbeing, and all it took was accidentally absorbing the intellect-enhancing drug placed beside her abdomen by a Korean cartel. The rest of us, meanwhile, have to choke […]
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Say yes to the undressed – Under the Skin review
July 4, 2014 
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By Simon Miraudo July 4, 2014 Sensory experiences such as Under the Skin defy mere words, which is going to make enthusiastically recommending it a tricky task indeed. The picture stars Scarlett Johansson as an extra-terrestrial who seduces Glaswegian men as a means of harvesting their organic material, for some alien mission we’re never made […]
Continue readingFry and lorry – Chef review
May 9, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo May 9, 2014 Chef is the most unremarkable film to ever be considered a ‘bridge-burner’, but that it is. Writer-director Jon Favreau revisits his acting roots as, well, a chef who turns his back on high-priced, uninventive gourmet food and earns back artistic credit in a dingy sandwich truck. No doubt the […]
Continue readingLupita Nyong’o & Scarlett Johansson in talks for ‘The Jungle Book’
April 24, 2014 0 Comments
Lupita Nyong’o is close to booking her first post-Oscar role (that is, unless she’s secretly shooting Star Wars Episode VII as we speak). According to THR, the 12 Years a Slave starlet will voice Rakcha, the mother wolf who adopts Mowgli in the live-action/CG hybrid adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Scarlett Johansson is […]
Continue readingHere’s Scarlett Johansson as another superhero in ‘Lucy’
March 31, 2014 0 Comments
Entertainment Weekly offers up the first official picture of Scarlett Johansson in Luc Besson’s Lucy. In the flick, Johansson plays the title character, a drug mule who accidentally absorbs her cargo and develops superhero-esque powers. Hopefully those powers are slightly more impressive than those belonging to Johansson’s Marvel hero, Black Widow, which largely comprises of owning two […]
Continue readingPatriot games – Captain America: The Winter Soldier review
March 26, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 26, 2014 We’re three films deep into Marvel’s Phase Two, which is the collective name they’re using for the standalone superhero efforts bridging billion-dollar team-up feature The Avengers and its upcoming, probably-googol-grossing sequel. First two entries Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World were really just marking time until Captain […]
Continue readingScarlett Johansson’s Black Widow will probably get her own movie
February 17, 2014 0 Comments
Marvel president Kevin Feige has assured Scarlett Johansson fans that Black Widow will likely get her own film soon, so stop bugging him already. Speaking to Total Film (transcribed by Comic Book Movie, which is actually a website), Feige elaborated on Black Widow’s role in the upcoming Captain America sequel The Winter Soldier, as well as The Avengers: Age of […]
Continue readingDon’t hate the player – Don Jon review
February 11, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 11, 2014 In Don Jon, the feature directorial debut of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the first to be released under his Hit Record label, a twenty-something New Jersey native must choose between his all-consuming internet porn addiction and a functional relationship with another human being. Gordon-Levitt plays the title character, whilst […]
Continue readingOS, I love you – Her review
January 14, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo January 14, 2014 If the romantic feelings we attribute to the heart actually exist in a pocket of the brain, might those same feelings arise in a sentient, lovelorn computer? Spike Jonze‘s hopelessly human Her – the first of his features on which he holds a sole screenwriting credit – wonders as […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Lost in Translation
December 10, 2013 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas December 10, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. (Hey, whatever. […]
Continue readingScarlett Johansson’s voice-only role in ‘Her’ ineligible for a Golden Globe nomination
November 28, 2013 0 Comments
The Golden Globe nominees will be announced in just a few weeks, but we already know one name that won’t be on the ballot. According to Variety, Scarlett Johansson’s voice-only performance in Spike Jonze’s Her has been deemed ineligible for nomination. In the offbeat romance, her vocal chords bring life to the sentient operating system, Samantha, that Joaquin Phoenix’s […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Captain America – The Winter Soldier
October 25, 2013 0 Comments
The first official trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier has arrived online. It’s obviously a departure from The First Avenger because (spoiler alert?) the Cap’n (Chris Evans) has been relocated to modern day society. However, it seems to carry over the original’s interest in the ethics of being a hero in a complicated world. […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Under the Skin
September 3, 2013 0 Comments
Ever wanted to see Scarlett Johansson as an alien who feeds on hitch-hikers? Your chance has arrived! The teaser trailer for Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin has arrived, in time for the film’s debut at the Telluride Film Festival. Though it’s hard – well, impossible – to discern the plot from this collage of imagery, there […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Her
August 9, 2013 0 Comments
Spike Jonze is back with a melancholy new film: Her. The trailer for his latest features Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely divorcee who falls in love with the operating system of his computer (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). It’s Jonze’s first big-screen effort since 2009’s Where the Wild Things Are, though it recalls more heavily his […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Don Jon
May 27, 2013 0 Comments
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a porn-obsessed body builder who must choose between his predilection for adult videos and a new girlfriend, played by Scarlett Johansson, in Don Jon. The trailer for Gordon-Levitt’s feature directorial debut plays up the comedic aspects of the premise, which is smart, because taking that conflict even a little seriously would be a […]
Continue readingDeath by a thousand cuts – Hitchcock review
May 15, 2013 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy May 15, 2013 There are a multitude of sordidly fascinating directions a biopic on Alfred Hitchcock could take. So, when Sacha Gervasi‘s flat and frothy Hitchcock concludes, it’s inevitably frustrating to find this film takes such a conventional path. Hitchcock opens right when the great man was at the top of his game, having just released the gloriously […]
Continue readingScarlett Johansson to play Luc Besson’s Lucy
April 29, 2013 0 Comments
Scarlett Johansson is in final negotiations to star in the latest thriller off the Luc Besson production line, titled Lucy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film concerns a female drug mule who is transformed into an “ass-kicking machine” after she accidentally ingests her cargo. The drug gives Lucy the ability to “absorb knowledge instantaneously” and […]
Continue readingRevenge’s Emily VanCamp set for Captain America: The Winter Soldier
February 4, 2013 0 Comments
Though she’ll never beat Peggy Carter (never!), Revenge star Emily VanCamp is reportedly in talks for the female lead in upcoming Captain America sequel The Winter Soldier. According to Deadline, Marvel is keen on VanCamp, and are merely nutting out the final details. Chris Evans will return as the Cap’n, while Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to appear as Black […]
Continue readingGreatest hits – Woody Allen: A Documentary review (Sydney Film Festival)
June 6, 2012 0 Comments
Woody Allen: A Documentary – Directed by Robert B. Weide. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Woody Allen: A Documentary plays the Sydney Film Festival on June 6 and 11. It is now playing at the ACMI in Melbourne. It arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia June 27, 2012. The imaginatively titled Woody Allen: A […]
Continue readingTalk to the animals – We Bought a Zoo review
April 30, 2012 0 Comments
We Bought a Zoo – Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Rated PG. Originally published December 20, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. We Bought a Zoo arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia May 2, 2012. If you had hoped writer-director Cameron Crowe would return from his six-year hiatus having shed the demons of Elizabethtown, well, I’ve got some bad news […]
Continue readingScarlett Johansson won’t appear in Iron Man 3
April 26, 2012 0 Comments
Sorry Avengers fans. There will be no sight of Scarlett Johansson‘s Black Widow in Iron Man 3. Johansson revealed the news to ScreenRant while promoting the epic Marvel team-up flick. Though the Widow won’t appear in Shane Black’s Iron Man sequel, Johansson hopes she’ll eventually get her own spin off (of course she would). Though […]
Continue readingGuy Pearce joins Iron Man 3
April 23, 2012 0 Comments
Guy Pearce is in final talks to star opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 3, Variety reports. Pearce would play Aldrich Killian, a geneticist who develops the Extremis nano-technology used by Tony Stark. It is unknown if, as in the comics, Killian will assist a terrorist in the spread of a nanobot virus. Ben Kingsley […]
Continue readingWhen worlds collide – The Avengers review
April 20, 2012 4 Comments
The Avengers – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Chris Hemsworth. Directed by Joss Whedon. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. The Avengers is a toybox come to life, and Joss Whedon is the precocious, imaginative, quick-witted scamp entrusted by Marvel to pose their action figures in ways pleasing to our eager eyes. Hulk fights […]
Continue readingBen Kingsley suits up for Iron Man 3
April 10, 2012 0 Comments
Ben Kingsley is close to signing on as the villain in Iron Man 3, Variety reports. Filming begins on the Marvel sequel in May, and will see Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, and Don Cheadle back as Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Black Widow and Rhodey respectively (obviously). Though it’s unknown who Kingsley would […]
Continue readingNew clip from The Avengers shows off Scarlett
April 5, 2012 1 Comment
Disney has released the first clip from their upcoming Marvel team-up flick The Avengers, highlighting Scarlett Johansson/Black Widow’s abilities to dominate enemies even whilst tied to a chair. Super-fans will appreciate the brief glimpse of Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg), who was finally given his very own character poster earlier this week. The action sequence here – and the comic beats – […]
Continue readingCharacter Poster Debut: The Avengers
March 14, 2012 1 Comment
Another day, another Avengers poster. Actually, make that, another six Avengers posters! Disney has unveiled a batch of one-sheets featuring Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), and Agent Hill (Cobie Smulders) in all their glory. Enough talk. Look’em! We […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Avengers
March 1, 2012 3 Comments
You’ve admired the new poster, now gasp at the latest teaser! The final feature trailer for Joss Whedon‘s The Avengers has arrived online. It features brand new footage of Hulk in action, as well as alien attackers blah blah blah what are you waiting for? Watch it already! You can check it out in HD over at […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: The Avengers
February 29, 2012 0 Comments
There isn’t much to report here aside from its inherent awesomeness, but lo and behold the final official poster for The Avengers. Click to embiggen. Look at everyone working together! The Marvel team-up flick, directed by Joss Whedon, stars (deep breath) Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Cobie Smulders and Clark Gregg. […]
Continue readingJoseph Gordon-Levitt to direct Scarlett Johansson in new comedy
February 10, 2012 1 Comment
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception) will add director to his list of credentials as Deadline reveals details of his first venture behind the camera. JoGo’s feature directing debut will be an as-yet-untitled comedy he wrote and plans to star in alongside Scarlett Johansson. He’s tight-lipped about the finer plot details at the moment […]
Continue readingSuperbowl Trailer Debut: The Avengers
February 6, 2012 3 Comments
A brand new trailer for Joss Whedon‘s Marvel team-up flick The Avengers debuted during the Superbowl. But for those of you who care far more about comic book movies than sports, you don’t need to sit through any football to see it! The clip features brand new footage of The Avengers in action, including a […]
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