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Archive for January, 2011

A brand new poster has been released for Scream 4, Dimension Film’s return to Woodsboro. It’s actually a rather clever poster too, considerably better than the name Scre4m that is the alternative title for the project. The movie takes place on the tenth anniversary of the original Woodsboro murders, and sees [...]

Irish starlet Saoirse Ronan is set to join the cast of Peter Jackson’s forthcoming fantasy adventure The Hobbit. The J.R.R. Tolkein adaptation, and prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has already nabbed Irishman James Nesbitt for a role as the outspoken dwarf Bofur. Elijah Wood,Ian McKellan, Andy Serkis [...]

Only a few days ago The Guard was winning admirers after being unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, now Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the US and Latin American rights to the film. This is a very positive development for the film as Sony Pictures Classics has a [...]

Categories: Coming Soon, Movie News

One of the more interesting smaller movies coming out this year is Duncan Jones’ second feature, after his acclaimed first outing Moon. Titled Source Code it stars Jake Gyllenhaal and is another sci-fi flick, except but a bit more action than the last one. And it’s got a new poster [...]

Focus Features have unveiled the first poster for the Saoirse Ronan starring Hanna, and it’s a bit grim. The close-up of Ronan’s  peircing blue eyes and the tag-line “Adapt or Die” make the whole thing kind of intimidating. I don’t think it’ll go on the bedroom wall. Hanna tells the story [...]

The 9th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is just 3 weeks away. The festival launches it’s programme later tonight, with the festival itself running from February 17th to 27th. That’s 11 days, 130 screening and a whole host of special events, panel discussions, public interviews and industry masterclasses. The festival [...]

Categories: Featured, Festivals

With the amount of coverage I’ve given Unknown recently it better be good. Today there’s a new international trailer for the film, that features even more of Liam Neeson and his new ass-kicking ways. The movie sees Neeson wake after a car accident to find that somebody has stolen his identity. [...]

The 2011 Oscar nominations are in, and as usual there are a few pleasant surprises and disappointments. The King’s Speech leads the nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards with 12, followed closely by True Grit with 10. Other favourites The Kids Are All Right, The Fighter and The Social [...]

Categories: Awards, Movie News

Warner Bros has released a full set of character banners for their forthcoming feature Sucker Punch, and like all the promo material before they look great. I prefer the old ones, but these are still nice. The banners show the 5 main girls, who are: Emily Browning as Babydoll, Jamie Chung as Amber, Vanessa Hudgens as Blondie, Jena [...]

Look out Dublin there’s a new film festival in town! Titled Film Fatale this bi-monthly film event has the explicit goal of transporting an audience back to the Golden Age of Hollywood. With that purpose in mind the fest kicks of with the classic screwball comedy Some Like It Hot, regarded [...]

Categories: Featured, Festivals

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