With over one million PlayStation 4 units sold in the first twenty-four hours a pat on the back is truly deserved for those at Sony; however approximately 0.4% of these sales (so far) have met with the Blue Light of Death (BLoD) – though the machine may not be dead, just not set up correctly. […]
Media Stream of Consciousness – Oldboy, The Hobbit, Catching Fire, Homefront and The Delivery Man
Anghus Houvouras with a weekly wander through the media making its way across the world wide web, including Oldboy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Homefront and The Delivery Man… The adaptation that no one asked for is finally hitting theaters and being released on a big holiday weekend. Because […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2013 Review – The Tenant (1976)
The Tenant, 1976. Directed by Roman Polanski.Starring Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, and Shelley Winters. SYNOPSIS: A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. One of Roman Polanski’s recurring motifs has always been the horror of the apartment space. It was as recently as […]
Christopher Nolan using IMAX camera mounted on Learjet for Interstellar
Christopher Nolan isn’t exactly an unambitious filmmaker. His latest, Interstellar, is currently filming and today a picture has revealed that not only will the film be shot mainly in IMAX, but he has attached the camera to the nose of a ruddy Learjet. We’re well aware that his previous films have used IMAX in a […]
Terry Gilliam set to take another stab at Don Quixote
Seventh time lucky? Terry Gilliam is to return to his long-gestating 30 year pet project Don Quixote for what he hopes will be the final time after his latest film The Zero Theorem is released. The visionary writer/director has attempted to adapt Miguel de Cervantes’ seminal novel The Man Who Killed Don Quixote numerous times […]
DVD Review – Milius (2013)
Milius, 2013. Directed by Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life of filmmaker John Milius. If you stopped members of the public and mentioned the name John Milius they wouldn’t have a ruddy clue who you were talking about – even helping them by throwing a clue of, “He works in […]
Jessica Chastain reportedly turns down female lead in Ant-Man
Very few stars in recent memory have had such a meteoric rise like Jessica Chastain. Her roles in The Help, The Tree of Life, Zero Dark Thirty and the upcoming Interstellar and Crimson Peak have placed her with the Hollywood elite and it seems as if she can now turn down roles with ease. Although […]
DVD Review – Stuck in Love (2012)
Stuck in Love, 2012. Written and Directed by Josh Boone.Starring Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins, Logan Lerman, Nat Wolff, Kristen Bell and Liana Liberato. SYNOPSIS: A family of three writers all experience different kinds of love, respectively. The father, William (Kinnear) longs for the love of his ex-wife, whilst his children find love in […]
PlayStation 4 shifts 1 million consoles in 24 hours
Sony released the fourth generation of the PlayStation console last week and in the first 24 hours sold 1 million units, with most coming from pre-orders, giving the company a healthy head start in the console war against Microsoft and its Xbox One. CEO of Sony Adam House said, “PS4 was designed with an unwavering […]
Will Forte discusses Alexander Payne’s Nebraska
Will Forte is a gifted comic. His Saturday Night Live characters are memorable, his brief role in 30 Rock was the highlight of series 5, and now he has a starring role in Alexander Payne’s dramatic comedy Nebraska. Asked by Collider about the dynamic on set, Forte stated that, “It was intimidating going into it, […]
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