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Top ten big-screen bridesmaids
With the release of the female-led comedy Bridesmaids this week, we started thinking about other film bridesmaids. After a little research I can reveal there have been a hell of a lot. Not all focus so much on the trials and tribulations of the job as much as Bridesmaids, but there have still been some classics...
Take a cycle round iconic locations from The Lavender Hill Mob
The Ealing Studios classic The Lavender Hill Mob is being re-released later this month. Fans of the classic movie, and two other Ealing comedies Hue & Cry and Passport to Pimlico, are in for a treat. To coincide with the re-release on July 22nd, three exclusive bike tours around some of the most...
Rising Brit star Douglas Booth wins Romeo role
Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo? Well, it looks like we've found him in the form of Brit actor Douglas Booth. Booth, who you might recognise from the Burberry ads or playing Boy George in the TV movie Worried About The Boy, will play Romeo to True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld's Juliet. Director...
Penn Badgley bags Jeff Buckley role
It has been announced that Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley has won the coveted role of Jeff Buckley. We reported a while a go that the film, Greetings From Tim Buckley, was being made and that Robert Pattinson desperately wanted the role. It had even been reported that he had met with Jeff Buckley's mother...
Spielberg had Megan Fox fired for Hitler comment
As Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has started promoting the latest Transformers film looking glam and every inch the movie star, her predecessor Megan Fox seems like a distant memory. Cast your mind back to last year when we head that the super foxy, women-of-every-man's-dream Fox was being replaced in the...
Who’s the Daddy? Fathers in film quiz
With Father's Day just around the corner, we thought we'd test your knowledge on some classic films with lots of Dad action... [QUIZZIN...
Trailer of Halle Berry in Dark Tide
A trailer for Halle Berry's latest film, Dark Tide, has been leaked online. And it comes under one of our favourite genres - of the 'killer fish' variety. In this case it's a shark which is particularly good. Oscar-winning Berry has chosen this as her next foray onto the big screen. She plays some kind of...
Tom Hanks working on 3D film about astronaut action figure
It was as if he had disappeared, but now all of a sudden Tom Hanks is everywhere again. The latest news from the Hanks camp is that his production company is working on a 3D film based on the action figure toy Major Matt Mason. Hanks has written the script himself and may also take the lead. It is...
Pervert! DVD review
Is there a more perfect way of showing your admiration to legendary sexploitation director Russ Meyer than with a boob-filled, gory, cheap-looking love letter? I don't think so, which is why Pervert! is so brilliant and manages to keep your mood as buoyant as the fake boobs that jostle throughout the film from...
Jason Bateman eyeing up The Insane Laws
Jason Bateman looks likely to star in The Insane Laws alongside Vince Vaughn. The Arrested Development star has worked with Vaughn a number of times and if he signs up to this, the pair will be playing best friends whose friendship is tested when Vaughn's daughter falls for Bateman's son and ends up...