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Who Will Wear The Cowl In Zack Snyder’s BATMAN/SUPERMAN Movie?

The news of a Batman and Superman movie sent ripples of excitement across the comic book/movie world. Henry Cavill is a lock for Clark Kent/Superman – but who will play Batman/Bruce Wayne? Warner Bros. would love to get Christian Bale back in the [...]

August 4, 2013

Will Mel Gibson & Sylvester Stallone Face-off Cultural Troglodytes With THE EXPENDABLES 3?

Mel Gibson is the real deal when it comes to being a movie star. However, cultural troglodytes seem to enjoy trying to break him. It’s good to see that guys like Robert Rodriguez (with Machete Kills) and Sylvester Stallone are willing to help him [...]

June 8, 2013

Bradley Cooper: Steven Spielberg To Direct AMERICAN SNIPER; Drops Out Of JANE GOT A GUN

A year ago I wrote about Bradley Cooper’s American Sniper – saying that it sounded like “a cross between Mark Wahlberg’s Shooter and the Mel Gibson starrer We Were Soldiers”. I was pretty certain that the film would be directed by some [...]

May 10, 2013

Profile: Robert Downey Jr.

A decade ago nobody would have believed that Robert Downey Jr. would be one of the most bankable stars on the planet. In 2003 the recovering drug addict was a supporting player in dire Halle Berry schlocker, Gothika, while his close friend Mel [...]

April 4, 2013

St Patrick’s Day Special: Top Irish Actors

A rundown of the top Irish actors– be warned this isn’t a definitive list – these are just my top picks! Michael Fassbender When I first wrote this, Fassbender was the new acting kid on the block, and on the cusp of being the next big thing. [...]

March 16, 2013

Review: Action Movies Don’t Get Better Than DIE HARD

Die Hard is a great example of the Hollywood studio system getting moviemaking right – the film is a perfect storm of story and talent coming together. It is hard to fathom that the action-thriller was such an unknown quantity when it was first [...]

December 11, 2012

George Miller Talks Mel Gibson And The Making And Release Of MAD MAX 4

Hot on the news that Mad Max: Fury Road has snagged a release date and the first colour picture of Tom Hardy as the titular hero comes word from the film’s director, George Miller. Miller talked about the film’s troubled production and the [...]

December 3, 2012

Hollywood Salaries Have Been Taken To The Bank

Liam Neeson took home a $2 million payday for 2009’s Taken (a career best at the time). However, for Taken 2 the Irish actor was paid a very impressive $12 million upfront and he looks set to score much more with his back-end participation. [...]

October 13, 2012

Top 10 Movie Stars Of All Time

There is a difference between what makes a great movie star and what makes a great actor. While the stars on this list are undoubtedly good actors, they have a something extra which makes them great movie stars. Therefore, wonderful actors like Gene [...]

September 1, 2012

The Expendables: Icons Of Action Cinema

Action cinema defined Hollywood in the ‘80s and ‘90s. The titans of the action movement were undoubtedly Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, two box office powerhouses who fought it out for dominance, and who managed to change the [...]

August 22, 2012

Interview: Writer/Producer Stacy Perskie On GET THE GRINGO And Working With Mel Gibson

Get The Gringo (also known as How I Spent My Summer Vacation) has just been released on DVD and Blu-Ray following a platformed release on DirecTV and VOD. I spoke with the film’s producer and co-writer, Stacy Perskie about working with Mel Gibson [...]

July 24, 2012

Interview: Director Adrian Grunberg On GET THE GRINGO/HOW I SPENT MY SUMMER VACATION

Get The Gringo (also known as How I Spent My Summer Vacation in some international markets) has just been released on DVD and Blu-Ray following an interesting release pattern on DirecTV and VOD. The film has achieved good reviews (read ours), with [...]

July 23, 2012

Is There Hope For LETHAL WEAPON 5?

Producer Joel Silver has recently parted ways with Warner Bros. after spending 25 years at the studio. During his time there Silver was behind the Matrix franchise, Lethal Weapon films and more recently two Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey [...]

June 22, 2012

1999: A Movie Year In Review (Part Two)

Welcome to Part 2 of our 1999 Movie Retrospective. The final year of the last century was one hell of a cinematic ride and it offered some outstanding films for lovers of cinema. Now be aware that this is not a definitive list of the films released [...]

May 15, 2012

Model Abbey Lee Kershaw Set To Star In MAD MAX 4

Apparently “ the world’s fifth most in-demand model” Abbey Lee Kershaw has snagged a role in George Miller’s long awaited Mel Gibson-less Mad Max 4 (aka Mad Max: Fury Road). The model will travel to Namibia to play a role in the film [...]

April 28, 2012

Knee-Jerk Reaction: The Fall-Out From The Mel Gibson – Joe Eszterhas Battle

Rabbi Marvin Hier has come out and said that Mel Gibson shouldn’t be making a film about Judah Maccabee – ever. This comes after Joe Eszterhas tried to ruin the star by releasing tapes of the passionate actor. It’s great to see [...]

April 14, 2012

Mel Gibson & Joe Eszterhas Wage A Public Battle Of Words

Mel Gibson and Basic Instinct writer Joe Eszterhas are waging a very public battle of words against each other following the news that Warner Bros. had rejected Eszterhas’s script for a film about Judah Maccabee. The Hungarian writer penned a nine [...]

April 12, 2012

Why We Need Mel Gibson

To put it mildly, you could say that in recent years Mel Gibson has caused a lot on controversy. From the release of The Passion of the Christ to his headline making arrest in the summer of 2006 you’d be forgiven for thinking that Gibson had been [...]

April 9, 2012

George Clooney: Movie Star Part 1

There are movie stars and then there is George Clooney. The man is the epitome of old style charm and charisma and he has been compared to Cary Grant on so many occasions that it would be superfluous to do so here. I’m going to take a look at his [...]

April 6, 2012

Review: Daniel Craig In WWII Drama DEFIANCE

There have been a slew of holocaust dramas released in cinemas that attempt to show the Second World War from a different cinematic perspective. Defiance is another film to add to the list, and the “gimmick” that director Ed Zwick has decided to [...]

April 6, 2012

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