The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey Review

The Plot: When the wizard Gandalf invites unassuming Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to join a brave band of Dwarfs on a quest to reclaim their homeland from the monstrous dragon Smaug; he finds it impossible to decline and sets out on an unexpected journey to face the magical perils of middle earth. The Good: J.R.R. Tolkien’s [...]

Moët British Independent Film Awards 2012

The Moët British Independent Film Awards will take place tomorrow at Old Billingsgate in central London. Now in its 15th year, the Awards were created in 1998 by Raindance and set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honour new talent, and to promote British films and filmmaking to a wider public. Tonight’s [...]

Kevin Smith Makes Clerks 3 His Final Film

Kevin Smith has confirmed that he plans to make a third and final chapter in the Clerks series, but that this will likely be his final ‘cinematic effort’ as a director. Clerks was Smiths first film and the ultra-low budget comedy about an eventful day in the lives of a couple of store clerks launched [...]

Sony Plans Jumanji Remake

Sony is pushing ahead with a re-make of 1995 Robin Williams comedy vehicle Jumanji. Zach Helm the writer/director of Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium is the man responsible for finding a way to somehow update the magical board game adventure. 2005 sequel Zathura previously re imagined the enchanted board game premise as a space themed adventure. So it [...]

Star Trek Into Darkness First Trailer

Check out the first official teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness sequel below. The follow up to the magnificent 2009 reboot of the long running space franchise stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban and new bad guy Benedict Cumberbatch. Here’s the official Synopsis that has also been released so far: “In Summer [...]

Skyfall Breaks UK Box Office Record

Skyfall, Daniel Craig’s third outing as Ian Fleming’s Martini swilling super spy James Bond has officially become the most successful UK theatrical release of all time. The new Bond film directed by Sam Mendes has broken the box office record previously held by Avatar, taking in an astonishing £94million after just a over a month [...]

New Tron Sequel Gets Writer

TRON Legacy the long awaited sequel to Disney’s landmark special effects classic TRON received mixed reviews but still took in over $400 million worldwide. Unsurprisingly the studio quickly hired a writer to provide a script for a seemingly inevitable sequel. David DiGilio whose only major writing credit was little known comedy film Eight Below, starring [...]

Freaks And Geeks Second Series Plots

Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig has spoken to Vanity Fair about what would have happened during the second series of the ill-fated cult classic TV series. The show was infamously cancelled after just 18 episodes but featured a magnificent young cast that included James Franco, Jason Segel, Seth Rogen and Linda Cardellini. Despite fan [...]

Justice League Movie Has Villain Darkseid

Warner Bros. may have decided on the villain for its superhero team up film Justice League. The studio has turned to Darkseid, an intergalactic super powered super villain not entirely unlike Thanos the big bad in the Avengers 2. Warner Bros. are very keen to emulate the success of Marvel’s blockbuster franchise The Avengers, but [...]

Matt Damon Joins Monuments Men

George Clooney has added Matt Damon to the increasingly handsome cast of his new WW II film Monuments Men. Clooney himself will direct and co-star alongside a confirmed cats that already includes Jean Dujardin, Daniel Craig, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett and John Goodman. The film will have a soundtrack courtesy of acclaimed composer Alexandre Desplat [...]