Dude and a Monkey: Episode 20 – Caged & Furious!
Dude and a Monkey: Episode 20 – Caged & Furious! We are back!! Our triumphant return sees us strap ourselves in for Fast & Furious 6 and we also dip our toes into the new Star Trek into Darkness. We also bring you some one old one new, which contains another Prometheus discussion, and Marc [...]
Scanners arrived on blu-ray in the UK for the first time on the 8th of April 2013, and to add to the excitement of it all those good folks over at Second Sight films have decided that it should be released in yummy steelbook form. As with the recent releases of From Beyond and Return [...]
Billy Liar 50th Anniversary: Blu-ray Review
Billy Liar lands on blu-ray for the first time on the 6th of May 2013 from StudioCanal, as a special 50th Anniversary edition which showcases not only the fantastic new fully restored HD print, but also has some great features that look back on this wonderfully eccentric British film. Tom Courtenay stars as William Fischer, [...]
Dude and a Monkey: Episode 19 – Reviews Coming Out Yo’ Ass!!
Dude and a Monkey: Episode 19 – Reviews Coming Out Yo’ Ass!! After a week off because somehow they both have lives, Marc & Ian smack you in the face with FOUR reviews as they take a look at the new Evil Dead, Terrence Malick’s divisive To The Wonder, Steve Coogan’s latest The Look of [...]
Movie Poster of the Day: Black Rock
Movie Poster of the Day No.434 – Black Rock A movie posters main objective is to generate interest in a film, and with this poster for Katie Aselton second feature film Black Rock it has had the desired effect. I know nothing about the film other than what’s displayed on the poster, and I’m going [...]
Wallander: The Troubled Man UK Premiere Screening + Q&A with Krister Henriksson The Nordic Noir Film Club are hosting a one off special screening, which just so happens to be the UK premiere, of the new Wallander film The Troubled Man. This screening will take place at London’s Leicester Square Theatre on April 22nd 2013 [...]
The Last Stand carries with it two significant factors, number one it is Kim Ji-Woon, director of I Saw the Devil, A Tale of Two Sisters and the glorious action-western-comedy The Good, The Bad, The Weird, with his english language debut. And number two is the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger to being the leading man in an [...]
For years and years everybody’s favourite, well maybe not everybody, movie nerd come filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has promised his loyal fans a western film, and for years we’ve waited for Tarantino to reinvigorate this forgotten genre by adding that wit and spark that he injected into the often stoic and heavy war film genre that [...]
Hello! John Hillcoat doesn’t make comfortable films to watch. John Hillcoat makes dirty sticky films, where there are no good guys, just different levels of bad guys. In 2005 Hillcoat made one of the best westerns of recent times The Proposition. The trick was he and screenwriter Nick Cave, of Bad Seeds and Grinderman fame, [...]
Hello! Holy Motors: Picturehouse Cinema’s Live Q&A with Kylie Minogue, Denis Levant and Leos Carax Holy Motors marks the return of French director Leos Carax, real name Alexandre Oscar Dupont, after a near 13 year sabbatical from directing. The mind behind films such as Boy Meets Girl and Pola X, is famed for his visual [...]
Hello! Anna Karenina is the fifth film from Joe Wright, and the second in two years, something that is almost unheard of from a director who puts so much emphasis on scope and rehearsal, working everything through meticulous planning to ensure his vision is fully achieved. Which all makes perfect sense with a film like [...]
Hello! Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is the third film to be adapted from the hugely successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, by author Jeff Kinney. The first film was released in 2010 and although it received mixed reviews, the film made over six times it’s budget, on the back of a [...]
Hello! Brave is the latest 3D offering from the guys at Pixar studios, and is the first fully original film they have made for three years, after 2010′s mega hit Toy Story 3 and last years dire, giant toy advert, Cars 2. I’m not one of those who sees no wrong in Pixar Studios, I [...]
Hello! Flying blind is a film by first time Polish director Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, and stars the ever underrated Helen McCrory, as well as Najib Oudghiri and Kenneth Cranham. The film is a story of passion, obsession and how society has become engrossed in stereotyping people of certain ethnic appearances. Frankie (Helen McCory) is at the top of he field as an aerospace engineer, and [...]
Hello! Kotoko is the new film from writer, actor and director Shinya Tsukamoto, who is best known for his cyberpunk Tetsuo series of films. The film stars Japanese folk singer Cocco, who also wrote the story for the film, that Tsukamoto then wrote the screenplay based upon. Cocco has stated that the story, although not [...]
