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Bad Neighbours 2 Trailer – Seth Rogen & Zac Efron are back, and neither can keep their shirts on

January 19, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

zac-efron-seth-rogen-neighbors-2-slideI’m pretty much convinced that if Zac Efron sees a script he likes, he tells his agent that he’ll make it, but only if they put in more opportunities to take his shirt off and show off his physique. But it seem that with Neighbours 2 (known as Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising in the us), Seth Rogen also wanted to ensure he could get his shirt off to, as you’ll see in the film’s first trailer.

Here’s the brief synopsis: ‘Returning stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne are joined by Chloë Grace Moretz for BAD NEIGHBOURS 2, the follow-up to 2014’s most popular original comedy.  Nicholas Stoller again directs in a film that follows what happens when the will of parenthood goes against the bonds of sisterhood.’

The movie will be in UK cinemas May 6th. You can take a look at the trailer below.

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ACTORS: Zac Efron, Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Chloe Moretz  DIRECTORS: Nicholas Stoller  

Sing Street Trailer – Once director Jon Carney returns with another Irish musical tale

January 18, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sing-steet-pic1-slideDirector Jon Carney charmed many with the wonderful musical film Once, which has since been turned into an incredibly popular stage show. Now he’s bringing us another Irish tale infused with music, Sing Street, which has just released a new trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘SING STREET takes us back to 1980s Dublin where an economic recession forces Conor out of his comfortable private school and into survival mode at the inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious and über-cool Raphina, and with the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band’s music videos. She agrees, and now Conor must deliver what he’s promised – calling himself “Cosmo” and immersing himself in the vibrant rock music trends of the ‘80s, he forms a band with a few lads, and the group pours their hearts into writing lyrics and shooting videos. Combining Carney’s trademark warmth and humor with a punk rock edge, and featuring a memorable soundtrack with hits from The Cure, Duran Duran, The Police, and Genesis, SING STREET is an electrifying coming-of-age film that will resonate with music fans across the board.’

The cast includes the likes of Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Aidan Gillen. It’ll be in Irish cinemas on March 18th, before heading to UK screens on April 22nd. Take a look at the trailer below.

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The Suicide Squad Get Graffiti Character Logo Posters

January 18, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

suicide-squad-cast-photo2-slideIt seems 2016 may be the year when popular franchises try something different, such as the X-Men spin-off Deadpool, which is so crazy it’s just been banned in China, and Rogue One, which promises to be a different kind of Star Wars story. There’s also Warner/DC’s Suicide Squad, which looks like it might be fun and does supposedly tie into the comic book universe they’re creating with the likes of Batman v Superman, but is likely to be rather different in tone.

To help us see this may not be a typical comic book flick, a set of graffiti-style character posters have been released, which you can take a look at below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘An all-star roster of actors has joined new action adventure Suicide Squad, bringing DC Comics’ super villain team to the big screen under the direction of David Ayer (“Fury”). The film will star two-time Oscar nominee Will Smith (“The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Ali,” “Focus”) as Deadshot; Joel Kinnaman (“Run All Night”, “Robocop”) as Rick Flagg; Margot Robbie (“The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Focus,” upcoming the “Tarzan” movie) as Harley Quinn; Oscar winner Jared Leto (“Dallas Buyers Club,” “Alexander”) as the Joker; Jai Courtney (“Divergent,” “The Water Diviner”) as Boomerang; and Cara Delevingne (“Anna Karenina,” upcoming “Pan”) as Enchantress.

‘Ayer is also writing the script for Suicide Squad, which is being produced by Charles Roven (“The Dark Knight” trilogy, upcoming “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”) and Richard Suckle (“American Hustle”).  Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Colin Wilson and Geoff Johns are serving as executive producers.’ The film will be in cinemas in August, but you can take a look at the new posters below.

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ACTORS: Will Smith, Joel Kinnaman, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney  DIRECTORS: David Ayer  FILMS: Suicide Squad  

Steve Coogan & John C. Reilly Set For Laurel & Hardy Biopic

January 18, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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It’s difficult to think of two actors who’d seem a good fit for a biopic of legendary silent movie comics Laurel & Hardy. However, THR reports the people behind a movie about the men have found two people who would seem to be perfect – Steve Coogan & John C. Reilly.

According to the trader paper, Stan & Ollie is ‘described as an “emotional tribute to two of the funniest men in movie history” and focuses on their real-life tour of the variety halls of the U.K. as aging stars in 1953. The now-famous tour would see the double act set out “with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood comedy now behind them.” But despite initially disappointing attendances, the shows would soon become hits, with Laurel and Hardy reconnecting with fans, old and new, while rediscovering how much they mean to each other as they come to terms with the end of their careers.’

That said, Stan Laurel never fully did come to terms with the end of his career, as it’s said he continued to write Laurel & Hardy skits and scripts even after Oliver Hardy died.

The project will reunite Coogan with his Philomena co-writer Jeff Pope, while Jon S. Baird (Filth) will direct. It’s not clear when the movie will shoot.

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ACTORS: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly  DIRECTORS: Jon S. Baird  

When A Hookup Is More That Just Sex – A gay guy breaks his simple sex rules in the two-part web series

January 17, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

when-a-hookup-becomesBack in November, Buzzfeed Yellow posted a very sweet (and short) series that detailed moments in a gay relationship when things change, first when it becomes more than just a hookup, then when it becomes an official relationship and finally when it becomes long-distance.

Now they’re bringing us a new two-part web series, which kicks off with When A Hookup Is More Than Just Sex, which sees a cute young guy detailing his rules for simple sexual hookups – be clean, no sleepovers etc. – but then he starts to break his own rules and things change. It’s well worth a few minutes of your time, and it’ll be interesting to see what happens in part two.

Take a look at When A Hookup Is More That Just Sex below. And come back soon for the second part.

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Neil Patrick Harris Will Take The Lead In Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events Series

January 17, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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For a while now, Netflix has been developing a series based on Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. It’s already been adapted as a movie starring Jim Carrey, but when that was a flop, plans for a film franchise were dropped. The hope is that as a multi-part show it will have more success.

Now the show has its Count Olaf – the creepy uncle who takes in a trio of orphans – and it’ll be none other than Neil Patrick Harris. THR has the news, saying Harris is currently completing negotiations for the role. Assuming he signs on the dotted like, he’ll be the nefarious baddie, who ends up looking after Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, while having designs on their fortune.

There have been a few ructions with the show, as Mark Hudis was due to be in charge as showrunner, but he’s just moved on and a replacement hasn’t been announced. However, Netflix is still planning to make the show with Neil in the lead. It’s not known when it will arrive on the streaming service.

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ACTORS: Neil Patrick Harris  

Connie Nielsen Signs Up To Be Wonder Woman’s Mom

January 17, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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Wonder Woman has been shooting for a while, but it hasn’t finished adding actors to its cast, as THR reports that Connie Nielsen has signed on, to play the superheroine’s mother, Hippolyta. She’ll now head for the set of the movie, which is currently shooting in the UK and Italy.

We still don’t know a vast amount about the movie, although it’s recently been confirmed that it will be set during World War I. It’s likely to follow at least the basics of the character’s origin story, with Chris Pine as a soldier who ends up injured and stranded on the island of Amazonia, where he is nursed back to health by Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. She then follows him to America, where she disguises herself as a normal person called Diana Prince between her bouts of being a hero.

However, we don’t know what Gadot and co. will be up against, or indeed how Hippolyta figures into this – although it’s likely that as Queen of the Amazonians, she won’t be too happy about her daughter leaving home.

Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Ewen Bremner, Elena Anaya, and Lucy Davis also star. The movie will be in cinemas June 23rd, 2017.

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ACTORS: Connie Nielsen, Gal Gadot  DIRECTORS: Patty Jenkins  FILMS: Wonder Woman  

10 Cloverfield Lane Trailer – Sequel, spin-off or something else to the monster movie?

January 17, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

10-cloverfield-lane-posterFor quite a long time, there’s been a movie on the release schedule purely called ‘Untitled JJ Abrams Project’. Now we know what it’s called, but as always with the producer/director, he’s still not telling us much. The film is called 10 Cloverfield Lane, and it’s got a creepy trailer.

But what exactly is it? First assumptions were that it was a Cloverfield sequel, but apparently it isn’t, leaving some to say it’s a spin-off (with events happening because of the monster from the first movie but not directly involving it). However, the major rumours are that this will build the Cloverfield name into an anthology of films that are thematically similar but not related by plot. That would particularly make sense in this case, as Cloverfield only got that name because it was it’s code name before they came up with a title, but they never changed it.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr.star. Take a look at the trailer below. It’ll be in UK cinemas on April 8th.

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The Wonderful Alan Rickman Dies, Aged 69

January 14, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

alan-rickmanIt’s a sad week for British artists this week, as following the death of David Bowie it’s been announced that Alan Rickman has died, aged 69. A statement from his family revealed that he had been suffering from cancer, which sadly took his life.

While he didn’t make his movie debut until 1988 as Hans Gruber in Die Hard (but what a debut), he had already appeared in several British TV shows and received massive amounts of praise (including a Tony nomination) for his stage work. Indeed it was while playing a scheming character in Dangerous Liaisons on Broadway that he came to the attention of producer Joel Silver, who cast him in Die Hard.

After going up against John McClane, he became one of Britain’s most respected screen actors, thanks to films such as Truly Madly Deeply, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves (for which he won a BAFTA), Sense & Sensibility, Galaxy Quest, Sweeney Todd and Love Actually. Of course, he also found a legion of fans with his pitch perfect portrayal of Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies.

As well as acting he directed two movies, 1997’s The Winter Guest and 2014’s A Little Chaos, both of which he also provided the screenplay for.

Unsurprisingly news of his passing has been greeted with sadness by those who knew and admired him, including the younger cast of Harry Potter, many of whom noted that despite the villainous characters he often played on screen, he was one of the most generous and influential people they knew as they grew up.

Daniel Radcliffe summed it up with a post on Google+, where he wrote: ‘Alan Rickman is undoubtedly one of the greatest actors I will ever work with. He is also, one of the loyalest and most supportive people I’ve ever met in the film industry. He was so encouraging of me both on set and in the years post-Potter. I’m pretty sure he came and saw everything I ever did on stage both in London and New York. He didn’t have to do that. I know other people who’ve been friends with him for much much longer than I have and they all say, ‘If you call Alan, it doesn’t matter where in the world he is or how busy he is with what he’s doing, he’ll get back to you within a day.’

‘People create perceptions of actors based on the parts they played so it might surprise some people to learn that contrary to some of the sterner (or downright scary) characters he played, Alan was extremely kind, generous, self-deprecating and funny. And certain things obviously became even funnier when delivered in his unmistakable double-bass.

‘As an actor, he was one of the first of the adults on Potter to treat me like a peer rather than a child. Working with him at such a formative age was incredibly important and I will carry the lessons he taught me for the rest of my life and career. Film sets and theatre stages are all far poorer for the loss of this great actor and man.’

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ACTORS: Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe  

The Revenant Tops The Oscar Noms, With Carol, Danish Girl, Sam Smith Leading The LGBT Contingent

January 14, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

carol-cate-blanchett-rooney-maraAs always, a few days after the Golden Globes, the Oscar nominations have been announced, so that we can spend the next few weeks wondering who will win, before it’s announced on February 28th. As many expected, The Revenant got the most nods, with 12, followed by Mad Max: Fury Road with 10 – the duo also became only the fourth and fifth film ever to get nominations in all seven technical categories.

However, it was more a story of who wasn’t nominated, with that list including every black actor being shut out, Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg missing out in the director category (despite Scott picking up a Golden Globe at the weekend), Steve Jobs’ Aaron Sorkin and The Hateful Eight’s Quentin Tarantino failing to be acknowledge in the screenplay categories (again, Sorkin won a Globe), and Carol in the Best Picture category, despite the fact it had gone into the Awards Season as the favourite. Many are also wondering how Straight Outta Compton missed out on a Best Picture nomination – indeed there will hopefully be a bit of soul-searching considering there so much good work from black actors and filmmakers this year, but there’s been so little recognition of that at the Oscars.

The Revenant is definitely now the movie to beat though, with many believing it is now a shoo-in for the top prize. And while Leonardo DiCaprio infamously has a history of not winning Oscars, many believe this is his year, helped by a weaker than normal field (the others are Bryan Cranston for Trumbo, Matt Damon for The Martian,Michael Fassbender for Steve Jobs and Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl).

There are also some suggesting that while it’s unlikely to win Best Picture, it’s Mad Max that could end up with the most wins overall, as it’s likely to do extremely well in the technical categories. It would be impressive if it did, especially considering it’s the fourth movie in a series that started way back in 1979. But then, it’s a year of big gaps, as Sylvester Stallone has nabbed the record for the longest time between nominations for playing the same character, with 39 between Rock and Creed (beating Paul Newman for the 25 years between The Hustler and The Color Of Money).

On the LGBT front, it’s Carol that leads the way, as while it lost out in the Best PIcture category, it did score six nominations, including Best Actress for Cate Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress for Rooney Mara. There was a near LGBT takeover of the Best Original Song category, with bisexual Lady Gaga joined by the gay Sam Smith and trans singer/songwriter Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons). The Danish Girl got five noms, including the expected nods for Eddie Redmayne as trans pioneer Lili Elbe and Alicia Vikander as her wife.

Sadly though, while there were hopes that Mya Taylor and/or Kitana Kiki Rodriguez would become the first transgender actors ever nominated for an Oscar, the movie was completely shut out.

Take a look at the full list of nominees below. [Read more…]

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FILMS: The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol  
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