High Frame Rate 3D Guide & Review

Much like James Cameron’s Avatar introduced  a new generation of 3D technology Peter Jackson  has chosen to make The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey the first major cinematic release in so called High Frame Rate 3D (or HFR 3D for short). What does it all mean and how does it actually looks… read on below to [...]

The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey Review

The Plot: When the wizard Gandalf invites unassuming Hobbit Bilbo Baggins to join a brave band of Dwarfs on a quest to reclaim their homeland from the monstrous dragon Smaug; he finds it impossible to decline and sets out on an unexpected journey to face the magical perils of middle earth. The Good: J.R.R. Tolkien’s [...]

Moët British Independent Film Awards 2012

The Moët British Independent Film Awards will take place tomorrow at Old Billingsgate in central London. Now in its 15th year, the Awards were created in 1998 by Raindance and set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honour new talent, and to promote British films and filmmaking to a wider public. Tonight’s [...]

Kevin Smith Makes Clerks 3 His Final Film

Kevin Smith has confirmed that he plans to make a third and final chapter in the Clerks series, but that this will likely be his final ‘cinematic effort’ as a director. Clerks was Smiths first film and the ultra-low budget comedy about an eventful day in the lives of a couple of store clerks launched [...]

Del Toro Plans Pan’s Labyrinth Musical

Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar winning fantasy film Pan’s Labyrinth is set to become a stage musical. Del Toro has reportedly spent the past four years plotting the unlikely adaptation and now has Oscar winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla and lyricist Paul Williams on board to complete the new show. The original film tells the tale of [...]

Sony Plans Jumanji Remake

Sony is pushing ahead with a re-make of 1995 Robin Williams comedy vehicle Jumanji. Zach Helm the writer/director of Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium is the man responsible for finding a way to somehow update the magical board game adventure. 2005 sequel Zathura previously re imagined the enchanted board game premise as a space themed adventure. So it [...]

X-Men Sequel May Follow Hobbit 3D Trend

While promoting The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, Sir Ian McKellen has revealed that Bryan Singer has been impressed by the controversial 48 frames per second 3D technology used on the latest middle earth blockbuster. Suggesting that the director might actually use the same techniques on forthcoming X-Men sequel/prequel Days of Future Past. Sir Ian McKellen has recently been confirmed to be [...]

Star Trek Into Darkness First Trailer

Check out the first official teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness sequel below. The follow up to the magnificent 2009 reboot of the long running space franchise stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban and new bad guy Benedict Cumberbatch. Here’s the official Synopsis that has also been released so far: “In Summer [...]

Skyfall Breaks UK Box Office Record

Skyfall, Daniel Craig’s third outing as Ian Fleming’s Martini swilling super spy James Bond has officially become the most successful UK theatrical release of all time. The new Bond film directed by Sam Mendes has broken the box office record previously held by Avatar, taking in an astonishing £94million after just a over a month [...]

New Tron Sequel Gets Writer

TRON Legacy the long awaited sequel to Disney’s landmark special effects classic TRON received mixed reviews but still took in over $400 million worldwide. Unsurprisingly the studio quickly hired a writer to provide a script for a seemingly inevitable sequel. David DiGilio whose only major writing credit was little known comedy film Eight Below, starring [...]