Finally, here be Monsters – or rather Wild Things. The trailer for Sir Spike of Jonze’s latest has now stumbled its way into the realm of the inter‘tweb… a full 9 years after the teaser for the film was attached to The Grinch. There seems to be a trend of late to release films amidst a backdrop of studio squabbles and backstabbery. Recently, there was talk of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen being shelved (after the fans waiting patiently for over a [...]

Well, me… for one. But after 20 years of development hell, production green-lights, production red-lights, attached directors, detached directors, big name actors, lesser known actors, script writes, script re-writes, script binnings… the cinematic version of the very amazing and ecstatically acclaimed Alan Moore / Dave Gibbons graphic novel finally hits theatres worldwide. But who, exactly, will be watching? Big-name directors such as Terry Gilliam, Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass have all, in the past, decided (or had decided for them) [...]

Looks like the academy didn’t look too favourably on 13-oscar-nominated Benjamin Button’s de-aging-ness… Instead they favoured Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, it won Best Film, Best Director and six other little gold statues. Mickey Rourke didn’t get the Best Actor Oscar, despite winning Best Actor at most of the other awards shows, they gave it to the already Oscar-winning Sean Penn. Kate Winslet finally received an Oscar for which she started talking about shampoo, and to the surprise of no-one; Heath Ledger won a [...]

Ooh. Now then. Here’s the first teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s new film Inglourious Basterds. And it’s a doozy. It’s been a good while since I can say I’ve been excited about anything Quentin Tarantino has been doing. Kill Bill (vol. 1 and vol.2) were a mess. A big, needlessly long mess… not only were they too long, they were… just too crap. It was nothing more than a multi-million dollar licence for QT’s ego to run wild, creating his [...]

It must be difficult these days being a rich, handsome, award winning actor – what with all that, er… being rich, handsome and award winning… Cases in point, Christian Bale and Joaquin Phoenix – both, over the last few years, have made the jump from promising acting talent to bona-fide Hollywood A-list. Bale becoming the thinking-man’s ass-kicker with the likes of his phenomenally successful spot as the Batmaaan, and then there’s Phoenix who, not too long ago, got nominated for [...]