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Dwayne Johnson’s Snitch gets a trailer and new poster
Today a new trailer and poster were revealed for Snitch, a fast -paced action thriller starring Dwayne “The Rock,” Johnson and Susan Sarandon. Johnson stars as John Matthews, a father whose teenage son is the victim of a set up leading to him to be wrongly accused of a dealing narcotics leaving him looking at [...]
Cannes Film Festival: Cann-ecdotes
In day two of the Cannes Film Festival we talk to the UK’s top film journalists and critics who share their memorable festival moments. Peter Bradshaw (Film Critic at The Guardian) “My most memorable trip to Cannes had to be in 2011, when I was on the Un Certain Regard jury. It was fantastically [...]
Riddick Trailer lands
We first met arch-antihero Riddick (Vin Diesel) in David Twohy’s Pitch Black in 2000, then again in the much larger scale 2004 follow up, The Chronicles of Riddick. Now the thuggish alien is back for a third instalment once again directed by Twohy titled, Riddick. Vin Diesel reprises the role, once again joined by Karl [...]
Ari Folman’s The Congress Trailer
We have waited 5 years for Ari Folman to follow up Waltz With Bashir, but today a trailer landed for his latest feature, The Congress, that will premiere tomorrow at the Cannes Film Festival. Robin Wright (House of Cards), who plays a character with the same name, is a Hollywood actress who becomes digitalized so [...]
Stealing Beauties: Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, is set to screen at the Cannes Film Festival this week. Based on a true story the director’s fifth feature delivers a sobering take on one youth gang’s obsession with fashion, fortune and fame. Fuelled by a taste for luxury brands and couture, the real-life Bling Ring gang targeted the [...]
The Great Gatsby: The West Egg comes to the West End.
Whilst the reviews from Cannes for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby pour in, it is interesting to see how the excitement for this Thursday’s release is building this side of the English Channel. The summer is always a time for “tent-pole movies,”- those that the studios have banked on to bring in big profits as [...]
