Tony Scudder Walking and talking movies since the 70's
CABIN IN THE WOODS Most anticipated 2012 movie (RELEASED 13th April)
Stepping into the ‘Fright Night’ shoes of William Ragsdale as Charley Brewster and Stephen Geoffreys as Evil Ed are Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, delivering slightly different takes on the characters. In the UK to promote the movie, you can listen to some choice quotes below, as well as the full, unedited conference. Enjoy! To [...]
The London Film Festival 2011 will close on Thursday 27 October with the UK premiere of The Deep Blue Sea, starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale, and adapted and directed by Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives). Hester Collyer (Academy Award-winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the [...]
WIN Insidious on DVD and Blu-ray Directed by James Wan, written by Leigh Whannell (together, the co-creators of the “Saw” movies), Insidious stars Patrick Wilson (Watchmen) and Rose Byrne (X-Men: First Class; Bridesmaids) in a chilling ghost story that has been hailed as “utterly terrifying” (Zoo), “unnervingly creepy” (Sunday Express), “nerve-shredding” (The Sun) and, in [...]
WIN Attack the Block on DVD and Blu-ray Attack the Block is a fast, funny, frightening action adventure movie that pits a teen gang against an invasion of savage alien monsters. Read the full review here. Special Features: Disc 1: JUNIOR COMMENTARY – Joe Cornish with John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Simon Howard and [...]
WIN Julia’s Eyes on Blu-ray and DVD Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) presents the story of Julia (Belén Rueda, The Orphanage), a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease who finds her blind sister Sara hung in her basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is [...]
WIN Kind Hearts And Coronets Blu-ray Kind Hearts and Coronets is regarded as one of the best Golden-Age Ealing comedies and is included on the British Film Institute’s list of the 100 Best British Films of the 20th Century. Alec Guinness features in eight different roles as the unsuspecting members of the aristocratic D’Ascoyne family–murdered [...]
WIN Ben-Hur Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Award-Winning Epic Now Restored and Remastered in from Warner Bros Entertainment BEN-HUR COLLECTOR’S EDITION BLU-RAY(TM) DEBUTS 26TH SEPTEMBER 2011 Ben-Hur – William Wyler’s unforgettable epic spectacle, starring Charlton Heston, that won a record-setting 11 Academy Awards® 1 (1959) including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor and Best Director — will [...]
I remember a couple of years after ‘Twin Peaks’ created a stir on the small screen, another ‘odd’ TV series came out, this time from Denmark. Called ‘The Kingdom’, it was created by someone called Lars von Trier, and co-directed by von Trier and Morten Arnfred (who appears to have done little else since). I [...]
FINAL DESTINATION 5 WARNER BROS. RELEASED 26 August 2011 After the appalling fourth entry, enthusiastic writer Eric Heisserer was brought on board to ‘save’ the ‘Final Destination’ franchise, and amazingly, he’s done just that. He obviously ‘gets it’, and this fifth movie is up there with the original and part three as the best of [...]
THE FINAL DESTINATION ENTERTAINMENT FILM RELEASED 28 August 2009 Tagged as ‘the’ final ‘Final Destination’ film (who were they kidding?), ‘Final Destination 4’ (sorry, ‘THE Final Destination’) does it’s best to kill the franchise stone-cold dead with bad acting and even worse scripting (no-one’s going to try and claim the the first three featured Oscar-winning [...]