Posts Tagged ‘rebecca hall’
Sundance Film Festival 2012 out-of-comp premières revealed!
Sundance Film Festival reveals highly anticipated premières which will screen out-of-competition! Last week, we told you about the films which would be screening in-competition at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival 2012. The latest announcement is the list of films which will receive their world premières during the...
Everything Must Go – DVD Review
Everything Must Go has a toned down, sensible performance from Will Ferrell, which fans of the eccentric comedian may find disappointing. Compared to Will Ferrell's typical crude, outrageous and seam-splitting comedy films, like Anchorman and A Night At The Roxbury, Everything Must Go uses dark humour and cynical wordplay to get the...
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 to discuss the role. There were also...
Blake Lively considering two exciting roles
Looks like Blake Lively is the lady of the moment, everyone is trying to get a piece of her. We already know she's in the hotly-anticipated Green Lantern, playing Carol Ferris after beating of competition from the likes of Eva Green, Diana Kruger and Jennifer Garner. Now she is being lined up for roles in two other films- Savages and Oz:...
Catherine Zeta-Jones joins cast of Lay the Favorite
Catherine Zeta-Jones has reportedly joined the cast of Stephen Frears' latest film, Lay the Favorite. Lay the Favorite is based on the memoir of American writer Beth Raymer, and tells the story of a thirty-something woman who becomes involved with a group of men who have found a way to work the sports book betting system in Las Vegas to...
The young British acting elite – top ten
This Friday we see the release of Never Let Me Go, based on a novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. It tells the story of three individuals who as they become young adults have to learn to deal with the emotions that they feel towards each other and at the same time prepare themselves for the haunting reality that's ahead of them. The stars...
The Town DVD w/special features
When we saw The Town back in September last year we were blown away by how Ben Affleck managed to turn a classic heist story into an edge-of-your-seat, highly original drama. Now as the DVD is released, we get a chance to a watch the film again and take a look at its special features. Set in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the robbery...
Win one of 3 copies of The Town on DVD
We're giving away three copies of The Town, Ben Affleck's second movie behind the camera. Starring Affleck himself, Mad Men's Jon Hamm, Pete Postlethwaite in one of his last cinematic roles and Rebecca Hall, the film is an explosive mixture of bank robbery, action, romance and Irish Americans. At The Film Review, we really liked the movie...
Carey Mulligan to play The Great Gatsby’s Daisy?
Artistic Aussie director Baz Luhrmann is taking on the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby. The flamboyant director who gave us Moulin Rouge and Romeo and Juliet, has apparently already cast his two male leads - Leornado DiCaprio as Gatsby and Tobey Maguire as Carraway. The big question is who will play the lead...
Ben Affleck the best director in The Town: The Town review
Though Ben Affleck had some success with his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, I still think of him mostly for terrible movies. Disasters like Gigli, that ill-fated project with his ex J-Lo, and Jersey Girl, which I can only remember for being painful. So, I went to The Town expecting the worst. I came out in tears and overwhelmed with...
Ben Affleck is back in The Town
Trailers for the new Ben Affleck movie The Town have got us wondering if it'll be one of his flops or successes. The town in question is Affleck's home ground of Boston, where 'there are over 300 bank robberies...every year'. Doug MacRay (Affleck) is a bank robber who bumps into one of his traumatised victims, Claire (Rebecca Hall), shortly...
Please Give
While everyone is talking about Sex and The City 2 this summer, another film set in New York City has quietly crept along and blown the critics and viewers away. I'm talking about the latest offering from writer- director Nicole Holofcener- Please Give. Somewhat of a hero for women writers and directors everywhere, Holofcener does what very few...
