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Journey To Night Country: Jodie Foster To Star In TRUE DETECTIVE Season 4

Following in the footsteps of Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell, double Oscar winner Jodie Foster has signed-on to star in (and executive produce) the fourth season of HBO’s True Detective. Foster will play Detective Liz Danvers in the [...]

May 27, 2022

The Cannes Film Festival 2021 Lineup

The Cannes Film Festival has announced its line-up for its 2021 incarnation. President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux announced the 61 titles for the festival, which will run from July 6-17 2021. Spike Lee is president of the [...]

June 3, 2021

Notebook Reviews: SHADOWS AND FOG

Woody Allen – 1991 Shadows And Fog is a bizarre but entertaining effort from Woody Allen that features an excellent cast: Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Jodie Foster and Madonna amongst others. It’s very off-beat, but [...]

May 6, 2021

Notebook Reviews: CONTACT

Robert Zemeckis – 1997 Robert Zemeckis‘ Contact is a stylish and thoughtful slice of adult science-fiction. The film features some wonderfully realistic special effects and Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey really sell the more [...]

December 17, 2020

Interview: Richard Donner Talks LETHAL WEAPON, THE GOONIES & More – Part 2

He started his career in television, directing some of the biggest shows of the 1960s and 1970s. However, when Richard Donner took the leap to the big screen his career went stratospheric. The Omen (1976) was a huge hit, but it was the release [...]

November 17, 2018

Goodbye To Jonathan Demme

Director Jonathan Demme has died, defeated by cancer at the age of 73. Demme was a scorching director, having helmed a selection of great movies – amongst them Melvin and Howard, Something Wild, Married To The Mob, The Silence of The Lambs [...]

April 26, 2017

George Clooney Trailer Double Bill: HAIL, CAESAR / MONEY MONSTER

You can never get enough George Clooney, and today sees new trailers for two very different Clooney movies – Hail, Caesar and Money Monster Hail, Caesar from the Coen Brothers opens in March and Jodie Foster’s Money Monster opens in May. [...]

January 13, 2016

Book Review: Elysium – The Art of the Film

Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium is a visually stylish science fiction blockbuster, so it is no surprise that it would have a visually impressive tie-in book detailing the making of the film. Blomkamp’s follow-up to District 9 is set in a futuristic Los [...]

August 26, 2013