Category Archives: cinema

Get Him to the Greek

By admin | Published June 6, 2010

Get Him to the Greek reunites Jonah Hill and Russell Brand with Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nicholas Stoller in the story of a record company executive with three days to drag an uncooperative rock legend to Hollywood for a comeback concert. The comedy is the latest film from producer Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People).

Rejected by Brit film makers: Pegg and Ramamurthy audition tapes discovered!

By Dwardus | Published May 5, 2010

Simon Pegg (Hotfuzz, Run, Fat Boy, Run, Shaun of the Dead) and Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes), will be nursing their ego’s after their audition tapes were rejected by Brit film makers Twist Films.
Auditioning for the star role of ‘Derecq Twist’, a West Country morris dancer, these two world famous celebs just don’t cut the mustard for [...]

The Road (2009)

By Dwardus | Published March 22, 2010

The Road is a postapocalyptic movie based on a book by Cormac McCarthy and directred by John Hillcoat (The Proposition, 2005).

Following an unexplained cataclysm leading to the death of most of the worlds population and all animal and plant life, “The Man” (not Samuel L Jackson, but the exceptional Viggo Mortensen) or “Father” and the “Boy” travel towards the sea looking for food to survive and some small hope for a future.

Harry Brown (2009)

By Dwardus | Published March 20, 2010

From the mod roundel/cross-hair adorned marketing campaign I almost expected Harry Brown to be some sort of ageing mod superhero and in a way, I suppose he is. The story revolves around bad kids on the estate where Harry lives and him losing a dear friend Leonard Attwell (David Bradley), who has had enough of their constant taunts and takes it on himself to fight back.

The Damned United (2009)

By Dwardus | Published March 19, 2010

The Damned United sees Michael Sheen and screenwriter Peter Morgan together again for a factual football drama cataloguing Brian Clough’s short time as the Leeds manager and run-ins with his rival, Don Revie. The film, based on a book of the same name by David Peace, deals primarily with the relationship between three guys, Brian Clough, Don Revie and Peter Taylor, Clough’s right-hand man.