Filmstalker: July 2011 Archives

The Ides of March trailer

These are the kind of films we need to start seeing, the ones that are entertaining, thrilling, well acted, written and shot, and tackling a big issue that people need to know more about, the corruption, lies and manipulation that happens behind the scenes to try and steal your votes,...

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Tower Heist trailer

Eddie Murphy, where did he go? Well he's back in Tower Heist, the film directed by Brett Ratner which also stars Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Casey Affleck, Michael Peña, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe and Judd Hirsch. He looks like he's back in this clip, although perhaps not to...

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Another Earth trailer

Mike Cahill's film, Another Earth, is far from the science fiction film you'd expect judging from the trailers we've seen to date. So far it's been about people, relationships, and what it means to be you, and I love that. The trailer concentrates on a couple who have come together...

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Final scenes of Captain America: The First Avenger online

No, this isn't bootlegged, but then neither is this the complete ending for Captain America: The First Avenger, but a condensed version that gives something major away about the end of the film but leads into his meeting with S.H.I.E.L.D. A short few moments from the end of Captain America:...

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Battleship trailer

I'm not sure what to say about the Battleships trailer. Part of me is impressed that they've built so much around the no-story game which was just a naval battle of equally matched ships, part of me is disappointed that with so much scope this is the trailer we get,...

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Red State adults only trailer

Kevin Smith's Red State has a new trailer online, red band for Americans and over eighteen for most of the rest of us. Basically it has some swearing and gun shooting. Yet that's not a description of the trailer, for there's a lot more there, including a touch of the...

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Fright Night international trailer online

Fright Night was receiving the big sell in the cinema I was in yesterday, four huge character posters and a pop-out standing banner outside the front door, and surprisingly the words 3D weren't visible anywhere as far as I can recall. The character banners make the film feel a little...

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Love Crime trailer looks fantastic

The new trailer for Love Crime, aka Crime d'amour, really does deliver the promise of a powerful psychological thriller with two powerful female leads, and one of my favourite actresses Kristin Scott Thomas. Directed by Alain Corneau who co-wrote with Nathalie Carter, the film stars the fantastic and gorgeous Thomas...

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Bourne Legacy connects to Bourne series

When I first heard that the new Bourne Legacy series was going to feature a new agency creating new Bourne-type assassins I thought that this was a cheap reboot/remake/re-invention/re-imagination ploy to restart a series without the original stars. However with the news coming of some of the co-stars I wonder...

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New Brighton Rock trailer

I think this trailer for Brighton Rock might be the best one I've seen yet. Visually it looks fantastic, it carries strong cinematography through every shot, and there are a lot of strong lines from powerful actors setting up some rather combative relationships. While the remake wasn't too well received,...

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The Lost Symbol loses director

Well the team who made the first two film adaptations of the Dan Brown novels so great won't be returning for the third film The Lost Symbol, well they will be but not as we know them. That doesn't mean one of them is having plastic surgery, it means that...

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New Year's Eve trailer

A trailer for New Year's Eve has appeared online and it promises little in the way of story and much in the way of, well stars. There just appears to be a sea of gleaming white teeth and perfectly turned out people, nothing looks very real, the closest we get...

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Happy Feet 2 trailer

A trailer has arrived for Happy Feet 2, and it washes over me without the slightest interest at all. Mind you I have no desire to see animated penguins dancing and singing in choreographed numbers, children do, and if I believe Hollywood they especially do in 3D. There are a...

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Margin Call trailer online

A film about the financial crises, well the first day of the financial crisis to be exact, doesn't sound that exciting as a thriller, a documentary perhaps, but not a dramatic thriller. Yet to all accounts Margin Call brings us just that, a dramatic thriller about the first day of...

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Intruders trailer in English

Yesterday I wrote about the first trailer for the Juan Carlos Fresnadillo film called Intruders. It was in Spanish and rather hard to gain an understanding of the plot. Now this English language version is much clearer and contains some key titles to help you on the way, and it...

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Spielberg confirms new Jurrasic Park

We've heard discussion about a new Jurassic Park film on and off since the last one, but now it seems this discussion makes it official, after all the man doing the talking is Steven Spielberg, and he should know. He revealed to the Comic-Con audience at San Diego that he's...

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Soderbergh's Haywire gets a trailer

Steven Soderbergh is extending what he's done with adult star Sasha Grey in The The Girlfriend Experience (Filmstalker review) and widened the scope even further, for now he's taken the mixed martial arts star Gina Carano and turned her into an action film star, and not just any action film...

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Redemption Road trailer glows

I have a certain type of film in mind when I think of Mario Van Peebles, and it's certainly not Redemption Road, so that's maybe why the Peebles directed film starring Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson, Kiele Sanchez, Taryn Manning, Luke Perry and Tom Skerritt looks so good and has...

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Fresnadillo's Intruders trailer

A full trailer for Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's Intruders film has arrived online, a horror/thriller that stars Clive Owen, Carice van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Kerry Fox, Ella Purnell and a surprising Mark Wingett. Okay it's a non-English trailer with no subtitles, but there's plenty to be had from the trailer that...

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You Instead trailer from T in the Park

This trailer caught my eye today, it's for a film that was shot entirely on location during the Scottish music festival T in the Park over five days and seems to have a rather interesting storyline where two singers from two different bands are handcuffed together and forced to spend...

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Main Street trailer starring Colin Firth

Main Street had never popped its head up for me, even with the actors involved - Colin Firth, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Bloom - and that's quite a list. Filmed only last year it went to the Austin Film Festival, DVD in Sweden and Brazil, and is...

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Uncertainty over Dirty Girl trailer

Dirty Girl just didn't seem very interesting when I saw the title and the poster, I immediately made a decision about it and it wasn't a good outcome. Then I saw the trailer and I thought perhaps there is something there, although I'm still not convinced. Mind you, it does...

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Bel Ami trailer with gigolo Pattinson

Wow, isn't Robert Pattinson trying hard to get rid of his Twilight image, and good on him too. His latest film Bel Ami looks like it's really taking him far away from that film, although he's still keeping the heart-throb image. He's becoming a gigolo and pampering to a list...

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Niccol's In Time trailer arrives

The trailer for Andrew Niccol's science fiction film In Time has arrived and it looks really good, grabbing you with the concept from really early on, I'm impressed and it looks like it could be an exciting film. There's an interesting cast to go along with the film too, Justin...

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Bunraku trailer impresses

You might remember some of the stories about the Bunraku film starring Josh Hartnett, Gackt, Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Kevin McKidd and Demi Moore, it promised all manner of strange styles to it, think Western, Samurai, Noir with wire work and origami sets, just the taster there sounds bizarre...

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Drive trailer

Drive comes from Nicholas Winding Refn and stars Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks, an very different line-up as to the one that was first hinted at for the film, however the trailer that's been released makes it look like this is the...

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Paranormal Activity 3 trailer crackles online

You should know by now I am not a fan of the Paranormal Activity 3 series. The first film scared me as much as an empty paper bag and was so formulaic and forced it ended up just irritating me. The trailer for Paranormal 2 didn't offer much more so...

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The Amazing Spider-Man trailer arrives

Now the real trailer arrives, after watching the bootlegged version of The Amazing Spider-Man the official trailer has been released and it's looking rather good, although I have to say my thoughts haven't changed. The fade in-outs are still too fast, the closing section makes it look like a videogame...

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Has Hollywood's greed hurt 3D?

I feel like slapping my forehead and saying "Doh!", but it does seem obvious that Hollywood's desire to milk every last drop of profit out of a latest trend or genre for as little cost as possible has resulted in the latest trend or genre pushing audiences away and a...

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Dream House trailer

Dream House is a trailer that surprises as much as the twists of a thriller do. I have to admit that when I started watching it I could see the standard checkpoints along the way and thought we were in for another Amityville type horror film. Wrong, so wrong. For...

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Escape From New York remake escapes remake?

It looks like the plans for that Escape From New York remake, the one that had Gerard Butler, Jeremy Renner and even apparently Tom Hardy interested in taking up the role of Snake Plissken, have fallen through and the remake will be no more. Well when I say no more,...

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Rebirth trailer promises inspiration

Rebirth is a documentary from Jim Whitaker that follows five people whose lives were changed forever by the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th 2001. While it follows their lives over this ten year period and how they cope with the pain and tragedy of that day,...

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Kill List trailer

I didn't really know much about Kill List until I saw this trailer and then saw the praise appearing from sites across the internet that have seen it and rate it very highly. It seems to be a praised as a very powerful film that has captured a lot of...

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The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer arrives

The full, official teaser for The Dark Knight Rises has arrived and now you can see it in all its glory, or not depending how you feel about it. The bootlegged teaser didn't look or sound that good, however now we're getting full audio and video and it does look...

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The Amazing Spider-Man trailer bootlegged

The trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has been filmed and leaked online, and while you can hardly see anything of it, you can tell that the tone for this Spider-Man is much more serious and darker bringing it closer to the new Batman than anything else. The only odd part...

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United trailer shows Munich Air Crash

The trailer for United shows us the worst and best moments of Manchester United's past, when they were one of the best teams riding through Europe with worldwide support, much like they do now, and then came the terrible news of the 1958 Munich Air Crash. A plane which was...

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Sector 7 trailer gives it all away

Not just what could be the ending, but the monster and every single shot that seems taken from the Alien series with a few other well known action shots thrown in for good measure, it seems like an array of iconic shots with cheaper effects and in Korean. I'm amazed...

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Crazy, Stupid, Love new trailer

I'm sure I said this when I saw the first trailer for Crazy, Stupid, Love, and I'll check after I've poured out this stream of consciousness afterwards, but I was as surprised then as I am now because I really thought that the surprise I felt from watching the first...

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Stiller tales on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

I find Ben Stiller a hit or miss in front of the camera, but behind he's definitely had much more praise, although in front he's definitely earned his success financially. You only have to look to Reality Bites and Zoolander to see how diversely he can direct and also the...

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King talks The Dark Tower failure, Howard moves on

It really is disappointing for fans of The Dark Tower, and I'm sure you can tell I'm one of them, that the project has been scrapped, especially such an ambitious one as the Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Akiva Goldsman one of three films and television series. Now Stephen King...

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The Dark Tower confirms doors closed

...and hope for bigger film ventures goes with it. Let's face it we're only going to see studios make franchises on a film by film basis and even then they'll only commit if the adapted property is so huge that they'll know they are taking an already hungry audience with...

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The Dark Knight Rises teaser underwhelms

Why most are very excited about The Dark Knight Rises teaser, I felt rather underwhelmed, and I even felt that I could be watching a very well constructed fan teaser, once again. However after watching the teaser and reading the blurbs with the teaser it's clear that this is meant...

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Tom Hardy playing Al Capone

Tom Hardy is a superb actor, I'm sure no one can deny that, just reel off performance like Bronson (Filmstalker review) and you'll have won people over, or Inception (Filmstalker review) and even RocknRolla (Filmstalker review), but I'm just cherry picking, he has plenty of powerful performances to his name...

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Another Ripley Alien film?

We've heard Sigourney Weaver talking about the character Ellen Ripley before, and we've heard her talk about how she would like to return to play her and how she wouldn't, but this is perhaps the most open comment we've heard from her about Ripley and how she would like to...

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The Thing prequel trailer arrives

The prequel to The Thing has arrived, well in trailer format anyway, and it's looking pretty good. There are more traditional scares in here, quiet no one around, lead looking nervously about, then loud musical cue and frantic camera movement to scare the audience, it's old but they only happen...

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Scorsese's 3D Hugo trailer

Big directors are turning to 3D, and with the news that Martin Scorsese was to adapt a children's novel to the big screen and film it in 3D, I thought we might see something amazing and inventive, kind of like what James Cameron gave us with Avatar (Filmstalker review). Well...

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits trailer online

The Pirates! Band of Misfits is an Aardman animation, which should be enough to win you over straight away but let me add that it's directed by Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt, Lord directed Chicken Run, and it stars Hugh Grant, Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Piven, Brendan...

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Akira film is happening, but not as we knew it

I had thought that the proposed live action version of Akira was dead, but it looks like it isn't, well it's perhaps dead as we know it for the news today seems to have changed the expectations for the film version and not for the better. A director has been...

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King's The Stand to get trilogy from Potter director?

While news broke that Stephen King's The Dark Tower series was going to get a ground breaking adaptation, we started hearing that there was a resurgence of film interest in his work and that other studios were keen to cash in on what might follow. One of those stories...

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The Howling: Reborn trailer

Finally today comes a disappointment. The trailer for The Howling Reborn, a new film in the series of The Howling that was supposed to be a remake or reboot of the story which many of us hoped would look to the original more than today's films. Wrong. The Howling Reborn...

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Filmstalker Film Club Round 6

We're back with the seventh round of the Filmstalker Film Club. We've turned around to Mark's choice again and he's selected three films that we don't quite understand the connection, he did say he was continuing the sports theme from the previous round where we discussed Grand Prix, but there...

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John Carter trailer arrives

Wow. I did not expect that. Although I'm no great aficionado of story in all its forms, I do know the story and when I heard it was being made into a film I certainly expected a style and a tone to it. However that was nothing like the style...

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Soderbergh's Contagion trailer

Steven Soderbergh's film Contagion has a trailer and it's online in high definition and right here. It's powerful, hard hitting and shows the escalation and sheer inability of humanity to deal with a strain of a virus that can kill, has mutated to easily pass between hosts, and has no...

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Surprise writers for Godzilla and Evil Dead

Writers have been found for the remakes of Godzilla and The Evil Dead, and both are surprising choices, although to be honest one is more surprising than the other. What this does make very clear to us all though is that the remake of The Evil Dead is actually happening,...

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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune gains new writer/director

Another project that I had thought had fallen through was Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the adaptation of the adventure videogame which had shades of Tomb Raider mixed with a strong script and some excellent backdrops and cut scenes, it's a game I'm playing just now and rather enjoying. Last we heard...

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Is The Evil Dead remake happening?

Well once again Bruce Campbell has stepped up and said it, but this time there's a little more to the story and it could well be that The Evil Dead is indeed going to see another remake, since you could well say that Sam Raimi already remade it. So what's...

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows trailer arrives

Apart from yesterday's television teaser there hasn't really been much indication of the arrival of a trailer for the sequel to Sherlock Holmes, and yet today it arrives with a quiet thump but a very significant thump none the less. The trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is...

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The Family Tree trailer

What kind of film is The Family Tree? That's the question I'm left with after watching it. Not that it's a bad trailer, it has me intrigued and interested in more, but I'm just really curious to find out how the film is going to turn out, there's so much...

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Another Warrior trailer appears

I've talked about Warrior before and posted a couple of trailers, all of which are similar in tone and content, and this new one isn't that different but it has a more emotional and rousing core to it, building the sides for the fight to the final punch crescendo. I...

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Spike Lee is directing Oldboy, plot the same

It's true, it seems bizarre, but it's true, Spike Lee is directing the Hollywood remake of Oldboy, and more to the point the remake is happening. I must admit I wasn't really taken by the rumour because I thought it was just that, another rumour, but the source is one...

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New The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn trailer online

Roll out the big billboards, here comes The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. There's a new trailer just arrived for the Steven Spielberg directed film in what is planned to be a trilogy with Peter Jackson sharing directorial duties. Written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish...

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Higher Ground trailer sees Farmiga direct

I really like Vera Farmiga in front of the camera and she's not given enough credit or enough high profile, meaty roles to really show what she's capable of, but now she's started directing it looks like she's certainly getting plenty of notice from the critics, and it's all good...

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No Transformers reboot, suggests less robots

Just last week some wild rumours were surfacing that Transformers would go the same way as other franchises do, the reboot route, and what's more the franchise lead was set to be replaced and we'd see Shia LaBeouf replaced by someone more suited to the action realm, someone like Jason...

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Space Invaders the film

I've talked about this idea before, first when we heard Midway games were going to start film development in 2009 and then in March of 2010 when we heard that Space Invaders was starting production. It seemed crazy, and for a videogame with no story it seems it's taken a...

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Bond gets new Miss Moneypenny?

There's a rumour that an actress in negotiations for the new Sam Mendes directed Bond film is set to play a rather iconic role, that of Miss Moneypenny, the assistant of M at MI6 and the regular flirt for Bond. While the casting is interesting news, and good news since...

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Animal Kingdom

Animal Kingdom is one of those festival films that I chose without really knowing what I was getting into, the key to selecting it was the blurb on the festival write-up, something I rarely rely on but in this case it caught my eye. It was mainly down to the...

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The Tunnel

Let me hit you with the most exciting part of this film first of all. It's free. The Tunnel is a film that you can download for free, legally. There's no cost to watch it whatsoever, and you can watch it in high definition too. So the next thing that...

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The Iron Lady teaser trailer

Well what does the teaser trailer for The Iron Lady tell us about the first film of Margaret Thatcher and about the Meryl Streep performance of the ex-Prime Minister of Britain? Well not a lot because it's very short, but we do see her speaking to camera and so there's...

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Final Destination 5 new trailer

I don't know why I'm showing you this trailer for Final Destination 5 because there's so little to the film that come the trailer they have to give away the core of it all, and the trailer becomes less of a tease for the film and more of a reveal...

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D sequel re-imagining franchise reboot

"What!?" I hear you cry? Well that's what's happening. The sequel to the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or perhaps the sequel to the reboot/re-imagining of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is to receive a reboot/re-imagining. You with me? Let me try and make things simpler. According to the report a...

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New Johnny English Reborn trailer

I'm not a fan of Johnny English, it's far from Rowan Atkinson's greatest work, although it is miles ahead of that Mr. Bean character who I could actually throttle to death with my bare hands. So I have mixed feelings about the return of Johnny English, but then there are...

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Spike Lee directing Hollywood Oldboy remake?

Well that's what the rumours say, and despite the strong source of the rumour I'm really having a hard time believing that this is going to happen, I mean forget the chances of a remake of Oldboy working but then add in the fact that Spike Lee is in talks...

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Conan the Barbarian trailer

There's another new Conan the Barbarian trailer online, this one is much tamer though and doesn't go for the gore factor so much, but it still looks as strong as you would expect from a Conan film. Do I really need to go through the plot? Surely not. Kid sees...

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Cell 211 spoiler trailer

Cell 211 (Filmstalker review) is a great thriller and there's a new English language trailer online for it, but I'm loathed to suggest you watch it as it gives away one of the twists in the film as the voiceover man talks about the plot. I guess it's not so...

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Are we being toyed with over Prometheus?

There's been a lot of information and disinformation about Prometheus, mainly around the direction of the plot. An Alien prequel, and then not an Alien prequel, no Aliens at all actually, and then an idea derived from the Alien universe, and now...well I'm really not sure what direction it's taking....

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Affleck directing Tell No One remake

The remake of the French thriller Ne le dis à personne or Tell No One (Filmstalker review), which is an adaptation of the Harlan Coben novel, came to light back in April 2009 and I wasn't too excited about the idea, after all the original was good. That said, there's...

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Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson trailer

Now this is the other Paul Watson film that I got confused about, Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson is the story of the man behind the Sea Shepherd organisation, a man who used to be in Greenpeace and was pushed out for being too radical and too forthright with...

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Filmstalker's Films for July 2011

July is, surprisingly a quiet month. You'd think that it would be filling up with bigger films but the releases are pretty thin on the ground, however that doesn't mean it's a bad month because as the films thin out so the quality ones rise to the top. There's quality...

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Thor 2 missing director, has writer

Well I have to say I'm surprised and also relieved that Kenneth Branagh won't be returning to the Thor franchise, and actually I'm a little sad at the same time. Let me try and explain why I'm feeling all those emotions in a moment. The headline story is that Branagh...

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Renny Harlin's 5 Days of War trailer

The trailer for Renny Harlin's 5 Days of War has arrived, it's a film based on actual events and is located right in the middle of the war between Russia and Georgia, just as it began and the world was focussed on other events. It follows a reporting team who...

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Coppola's horror to be seen

It was back in October of last year that I wrote about Francis Ford Coppola and his next film Twixt, although back then it was called, well it wasn't called anything but it was billed as a thriller with touches of horror, now Coppola is taking it to San Diego's...

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy trailer looks fantastic

The trailer for the film version of the classic Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy that starred the great Alec Guinness in the adaptation of the John le Carré novel has arrived, and it's not only looking great but it's sounding superb too, and just listen to Gary Oldman giving it a...

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Prometheus plot reveals nothing

We're still uncertain what Ridley Scott's Prometheus is going to bring us, but we can be sure of one thing, it's by Ridley Scott, and that's really all the blurb that's been released online is giving us. There was another blurb out there, but apparently it wasn't "accurate", or does...

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Love's Kitchen stinks for Gordon Ramsay

Take Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani...wait, you lost me there for a moment...add in Peter Bowles, Simon Callow, Michelle Ryan, Cherie Lunghi and a few other recognisable names and you should have something interesting. I mean a plot about a well known chef whose wife dies in an accident, loses all...

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July 29, 2011