[brightcove]1705434140001[/brightcove] Dredd has just screened at Comic-Con 2012 , and here’s our first reaction to the comic-book reboot… 2000 AD aficionados can rest easy – Judge Dredd’s latest cinematic outing is brutally true to its comic book source and a vast improvement on Sylvester Stallone’s universally loathed 1995 interpretation . …
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Magic Mike has opened in UK cinemas, and for some reason, audiences are responding well to the concept of ultra-hunks Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey jettisoning their shirts and trousers and gyrating about on stage. Oh right. Yep, the pair play strippers in Steven Soderbergh’s latest, which is loosely based …
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Preacher The Comic: Beautifully eccentric religio-pastiche from Garth Ennis in which preacher Jesse Custer acquires supernatural powers and hits the road with his vampire sidekick and ex-girlfriend Tulip. The Movie Version: D.J. Caruso ( I Am Number Four ) talked about dumbing down the religious aspects for his failed movie …
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Catching Fire has added some real clout to its growing ensemble, with Lionsgate confirming that Philip Seymour Hoffman has signed on to play the role of Plutarch Heavensbee. Despite reporting that Hoffman had been offered the part back in June, we must admit to being a little surprised at this …
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Primarily set in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the world’s driest regions, Patricio Guzmán’s lyrical documentary connects archaeology, astronomy, and the search for justice. In this unforgiving terrain, which once housed salt mines, General Pinochet set up a concentration camp for political prisoners; the victims’ elderly relatives continue to sift …
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Total Film is proud to announce that the Total Film Icon at FrightFest 2012 is Italian horror legend Dario Argento. The fevered brain behind such genre-defining classics as The Bird With The Crystal Plumage , Deep Red , Suspiria , Inferno and Opera , Argento will be joining Total Film …
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Six teens from a deprived area of Leeds embrace the heartfelt, politicised expression of slam poetry in this gently unassuming but powerful documentary. First-time directors Alex Ramseyer-Bache and Daniel Lucchesi follow the team as they prepare to take the stage at the world championships in Washington DC. Among them is …
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Total Recall has released a new full-length trailer online, and for those of you complaining at the loss of the Martian element of the original , it does at least give us a glimpse at the three-breasted girl. Not a full glimpse, but a glimpse all the same. Colin Farrell …
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Although not Luis Bunuel at his very best (it lacks the bite of earlier eviscerations of polite society like The Exterminating Angel ) this 1972 Oscar winner still finds the Spanish surrealist wielding a mean scalpel as six dinner-party guests are constantly frustrated in their search for the promised meal. …
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A quest movie with an edu-tainment thrust, Will and Kate Spicer’s doc charts the siblings’ aim to fulfil their Devon-based bro Tom’s lifelong dream to meet Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Breaching camp Metallica is tricky but Tom’s Fragile X Syndrome complicates it: he struggles with crowds, noise and breaks in routine, …
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