After voicing his displeasure with Marvel Studios a couple of weeks back, Mickey Rourke has since elaborated on the problems he encountered on Iron Man 2 in an interview with Crave Online: “I explained to Justin Theroux, to the writer, and to Jon Favreau that I wanted to bring some other layers and colors, not […]

Our weekly round-up of all the big talking points from the world of movie superheroes… The big news is of course the release of Matthew Vaughn’s Cold War-era mutant prequel X-Men: First Class, which I have to say I found to be a little over-rated. Don’t get me wrong, it’s enjoyable, but in my opinion […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the fifth of a five part feature… read parts one, two, three and four. “I didn’t think of it as Hong Kong. I reacted to what Bill Monahan put together in the script; I liked the idea,” explained American filmmaker Martin Scorsese when […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the fourth of a five part feature… read parts one, two and three. “The first newspaper article Nick Pileggi showed me was about the police covering a domestic fight on a Las Vegas lawn one Sunday morning,” explained American filmmaker Martin Scorsese regarding […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the third of a five part feature… read parts one and two. When he was approached by Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who wanted to revise his signature role of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961), Martin Scorsese was […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the second of a five-part feature… read part one here. “It’s true that some films will involve me more than others,” admitted American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. “It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the […]

Michael Fassbender has signed up to star in a biopic about the life of punk legend Terri Hooley, the founder of a record store in Belfast called ‘Good Vibrations’. The store later evolved into a music label, which kick-started the careers of a number of Irish punk bands. The German-born actor, who grew up in […]

Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the first of a five part feature… “Marty never gave me much trouble,” stated Charlie Scorsese of his famous filmmaking son. “Marty and his friends used to drink my liquor and fill empty bottles with water and Kayro syrup, but they were good […]

Presenting our weekly round-up of the biggest news stories from the world of movie superheroes… The Super Bowl took place this past Sunday, which meant of course that the big Hollywood studios were looking to capitalise on a huge US television audience by forking out obscene amounts of cash to promote their upcoming blockbusters [see […]

Now that Arnold Schwarzenegger is out of office and officially set to embark on his ‘acting’ comeback, details are starting to emerge on potential projects for the former California Governor. The Austrian Oak spoke briefly about his next steps at the Arnold Classic a few weeks back and stated that while he’d received offers to […]