Monday, 18 October 2010
Written by Ivan Radford
 Remember the Drive Angry teaser trailer that turned up a while back? Well, the new full theatrical trailer is online. And it's pretty much the same thing. But longer. Everyone loves Nic Cage. Especially when's driving. And he's angry. Put the two together with some guff about the Devil, his daughter and revenge and you got yourself a solid B-movie.
Breaking out of hell to lay his vengeance upon some nasty men, Patrick Lussier directs this action-packed nonsense with all his expert 3D eye.
The only question now is how many cars will be thrown at the camera.
Drive Angry 3D screeches into UK cinemas next February. Read on for the trailer.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Written by Ivan Radford
 Yes, you read that correctly: Danny Trejo is down for a film called Skinny Dip. With Michelle Rodriguez. But it's not what it sounds like. It is, in fact, what fans would have hoped for: a revenge thriller. Yes, the two Machete co-stars are reuniting for a movie about a young woman who kills a policeman. Hopefully there'll be more dead bodies than that - after all, the director knows what Danny Trejo can do. He's his son.
Gilbert Trejo, 22 years of age, will be co-directing Skinny Dip with Frankie Lantina. It's great news for the Trejo family, especially given that Gilbert seems like a definite chip off Danny's block: he met De Niro when he was nine and promptly did a "you talkin' to me?" impression at him.
Meanwhile, fans of Danny and Michelle's Machete partnership can get excited: the end credits for Rodriguez's Grindhouse-spawned B-Movie features references for two Machete sequels. Naturally titled Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again.
Friday, 30 July 2010
Written by Ivan Radford
 Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was not born to babysit kids or play the tooth fairy. He was born to hit people, shoot people, and possibly drive cars really fast. Well, now we all get to see exactly that thanks to George Tillman Jr's Faster, the trailer for which has popped its hood open on the internet. After 10 years in prison, Driver has one aim: to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to him being behind bars. Now a free man, he's got a simple list of people to bump off (only without Uma Thurman's snazzy tracksuit). But two men are on his tail: a hitman, and a veteran cop who looks an awful lot like Billy Bob Thornton.
Cue silly stunts, big explosions and dialogue where people will probably throw around phrases like "do or die", or "this sermon's over". You can get all of that from the trailer below - is Faster a new, streamlined take on the old classic PS One game, Driver? Or is this what Fast and Furious should have been in the first place? Read on and decide for yourselves.
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Friday, 29 January 2010
Written by Selina Pearson
 Director: Martin Campbell Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Bojana Novakovic Certificate: 15 Trailers Tom Craven (Gibson) is a widowed Boston homicide detective. Having raised his daughter Emma (Novakovic) on his own, he thinks the world of her. When she returns home, everything is hunky dory. Until she gets blown through his front door with a shotgun. Cue gritty revenge thriller.
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Friday, 15 January 2010
Written by Ivan Radford
 What would you do if you witnessed your own daughter get killed? Well, if you were Liam Neeson, you'd hunt down every European on the planet. But if you're Mel Gibson, well, you go about things a little more thoroughly. First of all, you'd get Martin Campbell in to direct. And then you'd unleash some cracking new artwork to go with the exciting trailer. Yes, it's only a few weeks until Edge of Darkness is released and we've got our hands on the latest artwork for the thriller. A remake of the classic TV series of the same name, Edge of Darkness sees old Mel back on the big screen, uncovering the conspiracy behind his daughter's death. A landmark show when first broadcast in the UK, this retread is looking pretty promising stuff. Think State of Play. But with more guns.
Read on for the new artwork (Mel looks angry) and head over to our videos section to see the trailer.
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Friday, 13 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
A plot? Rambo? Sure, those two words don't really go together, but just when the world thought Sly Stallone was crazy, he's back-tracked on his plot idea for Rambo V.
Remember? The one with super-soldier human-monster thing? "An amalgamation of fury and intelligence and pure unadulterated rage from before Man became human", or something equally moronic. Well, it turns out that the story comes from Hunter, a novel by James Byron Higgins (a pen name if ever I've heard one). That's going to be in a different film.
John Rambo, meanwhile, is returning to the once-rumoured storyline involving a young girl kidnapped by drug trafickers in Mexico land. Like Taken, really, but with more bloody violence. Stallone's not completely back to normal, then.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Written by Ivan Radford
 Director: Daniel Barber Cast: Michael Caine, David Bradley, Emily Mortimer Certificate: 18 Trailer Beware old men with guns. That’s what you might expect to take away from a film about a pensioner dispensing justice upon the youth of today. But no, Harry Brown (Caine) isn’t the enemy. He’s Michael Caine. The villains are the hoodies, with their knives and drugs. All Harry’s doing is setting the score straight. Michael Caine with a gun? How could that possibly be a bad thing?
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