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Remember that key scene in 1982’s First Blood when John Rambo is arrested on a bridge? Sadly, that bridge is no more. Situated in a tiny British Columbia town called Hope, the bridge served as an iconic location for Sylvester Stallone’s meaty action movie. It shows up in the scene …

Adam Sandler is getting in on the vampire movie craze by voicing Dracula in new animated flick Hotel Transylvania . Samurai Jack director Genndy Tartakovsky is at the helm of the 3D movie, which finds Dracula now the proprietor of ‘five-stake’ monster resort Hotel Transylvania. Complications arise when an ordinary …

An impressionistic, heavily improvised portrait of a working-class suburban Baltimore community, in which a teenager has recently died of a heroin overdose. Featuring mostly non-professional actors, Putty Hill mixes fiction with documentary devices (such as characters responding to an unseen interviewer). There’s little in the way of story; director Matt …

G iovanni Ribisi has joined the cast of 1940s crime drama Gangster Squad . The Avatar actor joins an already diamond constellation of actors that includes Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Anthony Mackie, Michael Pena and (possibly) Bryan Cranston. Ribisi is a great character actor who’s boosted many a …

Panasonic Marketing Director Andrew Denham has criticised Hollywood for releasing substandard 3D movies. At the recent Intellect Consumer Electronics show he made some pretty scathing remarks “It all comes back to quality,” Denham said. “Hollywood damaged 3D by rushing so many badly converted films out in the Avatar ‘s wake.” …

Friday Night Lights star Adrianne Palicki has joined G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes as female lead Lady Jaye. Palicki recently starred as Wonder Woman in a TV pilot that wasn’t picked up, and she also appeared in awful Paul Bettany vehicle Legion . She joins recently-cast Dwayne Johnson in Joe sequel …

Director Michael Bay jumped to the defence of his Transformers movies when journalists dared to brand first sequel Revenge Of The Fallen a flop. During a press conference for the third Transformers film – subtitled Dark Of The Moon – Bay was asked if he was worried Transformers 3 would …

A young teacher from Sarajevo is caught up in the horrors of ethnic cleansing during the ’90s war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in this powerful debut from Irish director Juanita Wilson. Imprisoned at a makeshift detention camp, Samira (Natasha Petrovic) is gang-raped by her captors before coming under the ‘protection’ of a …

Marvel’s latest superhero movie Captain America: The First Avenger is out next month, and they’ve just released a brand new trailer to remind us all about it. Unveiling a slew of new footage, this new look at the movie delves further into the sequence of events that leads to weedy …

Echo Point (1995) Although she made her film debut a year earlier in Dallas Doll , Rose first got noticed in this Aussie soap. She starred as teenager Belinda O’Connor in this Home And Away wannabe. Echo Point also featured True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten before he landed a bigger part …