The lowdown

When I say that these particular pot-bellied men can normally be found drinking rum and singing loudly out of tune, I'm not talking about embarrassing dads on a night out. I'm talking about the men of the high seas - Pirates. But of course, any pirate knows that you can't be taken seriously if you haven't...

"May the odds be ever in your favour" is the famous tagline getting The Hunger Games fans excited. Their favourite book has been made into a movie. And it only took four years since the book was published. That's got to be a record. In terms of box office success, the odds are looking extremely favourable for...

The Oscar winners might be yet to be revealed, but there are one or two certainties which we can rely on seeing at this year's ceremony on Sunday. With the Academy Awards now in its 84th year, there are a few characters which crop up time and time again - how many of this lot will we be seeing this...

Last Sunday Martin Scorsese was awarded the BAFTA fellowship. He opened his acceptance speech by saying that "British cinema is something that was formative for me". It was films from the UK, alongside American and Italian movies, that moved and influenced the great director when he was growing up. But how could...

With so many huge egos forced to share the red carpet, it is perhaps unsurprising that clashes of character frequently take place in Hollywood. Bill Murray famously fell out with Lucy Liu on the set of Charlie's Angels, Megan Fox got herself fired after likening Transformers director, Michael Bay, to Hitler, and...

With The Avengers coming out on 27th April, we thought we'd give you a quick refresher course on each of the superheros who will attempt to save the world in the film. When Loki, the Norse god of mischief who was previously seen disappearing into a wormhole in Thor, decides it would be a good idea if he became...

With Shame and War Horse coming out in the UK this Friday, 2012 is getting off to a great start film-wise. Here at TheFilmReview, we are very exited about the year ahead and have put together a list of some of the films, both big and small, that we are looking forward...

You certainly won't find this alien hiding amongst your soft toys or taking you on a flying bicycle ride. This creature, with its slimy tentacles and sharp rows of teeth, is a parasitic organism which lives and grows inside the human body, then takes over your cells and forces its way out from under your skin. So...

Scorsese. Nothing short of a cinematic legend. Earlier this week we were given the privilege of going to hear him speak about silent film, and his tribute to it, Hugo. "For me, movies were a refuge", says Martin Scorsese, sat in front of myself and other journalists at the Dorchester in London, flanked by cast...

Michael Fassbender is hot stuff at the moment, so we've got the lowdown on all things 'bender including his biggest films, upcoming appearances and some fun facts. Facts His father is from Germany and his mother is from Northern Ireland. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany but grew up in Killarney, a...