Michael Shannon is an incredible actor with amazing screen presence. He can pretty much do anything, but boy oh boy, if there’s one thing he does really well, it’s playing slightly unhinged nutjobs. He’s a master at characters that have a quiet menace about them, that always seems to be bubbling just under the facade of normalcy. You know, until …

Opening wide in South African cinemas from today are the following 3 movies: Total Recall: The classic Arnie and Paul Verhoeven sci-fi actioner receives the 21st Century remake treatment. This time Colin Farrell is the disgruntled blue-collar worker of the future who gets more than he bargained for when he signs up for memory implants. Suddenly our hero is revealed …

Swearing is not cool, kids. Well, except maybe when delivered by Christopher Walken. I don’t think there’s a single line of dialogue, no matter how crude and base, whose cool quotient isn’t exponentially increased when coming from him. And while he  seems to be on top foul-mouthed scene-stealing form in writer-director Martin “In Bruges” McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, it looks like he’ll have six …

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When director Stanley Kubrick died several years ago, he left quite a few projects uncompleted, while several of his abused actors from previous projects started taking tap-dancing lessons for when they eventually visited his grave (citation needed). Some of his work survived though, snapped up by Philco Films, a company that his son-in-law, Phillip Hobbs created with Steve Lanning. They’ve …

There’s nothing like a rousing speech to really drive home how great a movie can be. It’s that do or die moment, that period in time where a few chosen words can turn the tide of a battle, and grant you victory. We’re taking a look at ten such speeches today, but with so many to choose from, don’t forget …

Despite the fact that he’s old enough to be my granddad, Michael Douglas has no intention to take a break from acting. He’s already got work lined up in the upcoming grumpy old men in Nevada film, Last Vegas, and he’s been busy filming some naughty parties at a mansion or two as Liberace in Candlebra. And adding to that …

Ryan Gosling has been a busy man of late. Since the acclaimed Drive, directed by Nicholas Wending Refn, Gosling has been riding a wave of popularity and has also been enjoying a resounding respect for his still-young career and acting ability. It comes as no surprise, really, that he has announced his next career move – a turn in the …