This is it. The big one. The grandaddy of them all. Yes, the nominations for the 87th Annual Academy Awards, aka the Oscars 2015, are finally here. Held at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California last night, the nominations for all 24 categories were made available altogether (a first for the event), presented by actor Chris Pine, directors …

Some movies just get better with repeated viewings. Films such as Starship Troopers, Tropic Thunder and those surveillance tapes we have of Nick when he thought he was alone in the office. Wet Hot American Summer is one such movie that has deservedly earned a cult status. It’s a movie filled with future-success faces, actors who all went on to great …

As both the erstwhile Man With No Name and Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood certainly knows a thing or two about shooting. But the movie veteran is doing some shooting of a different kind as he once again moves behind the camera to direct American Sniper, a movie about – what else? – shooting. The true story stars Bradley Cooper as …

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper have worked together twice before, on director David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook and also his American Hustle, with both times netting the pair awards glory. When it came to the big one, Cooper had to be content with Oscar nominations in both films, while Lawrence also got the noms but actually walked away with her first Oscar for Silver Linings …

A few days ago we told you about Shane Salerno (co-writer for Avatar 4) picking up the movie rights to Don Pendleton’s ‘The Executioner’ series of books, featuring former anti-Mafia vigilante/guilty pleasure/now elite counter-terrorist agent Mack Bolan. Now Deadline is reporting that a deal has been struck with Warner Bros to launch the character in a potential trilogy of movies, with …

My wife is always saying that I’m prone to hyperbole (I call it creative writing), but I can assure you I’m not overstating anything when I say that outside of the original Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy is the most important movie Marvel has ever done. When the comic book film studio decided to bring us Tony Stark’s first …

It’s time to get serious about Guardians of the Galaxy. I know it’s seri0us-o’clock because the marketing machine for Marvel’s upcoming space romp has just gone into overdrive. Last week saw the release of four new character posters, along with a bunch of TV spots. Now a new full length international trailer has also dropped, and this one is, well, serious. …

Let it never be said that I’m not a man of my word. As promised yesterday by that flashy poster, two teaser trailers and whole heap of character descriptions, a  second full trailer for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has ooga-chakka’d its way onto the internets for your enjoyment. And damn, is there some stuff to enjoy. We get our first …