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New Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Character Posters – Bella, Edward and Jacob prepare for their final adventure

25th May 2012 By Tim Isaac


In November the Twilight Saga comes to an end with Breaking Dawn Part 2. To ensure the twi-hards fervour doesn’t dim, three new character posters have been released, showing close-ups of Edward, Bella and Jacob, which you can see above and below.

The last film ended with Bella getting vampiric and a new half-bloodsucker baby being born. This causes all manner of problem in Breaking Dawn Part 2, with the wolfpack angry but Jacob imprinted on the child, the Volturi wanting to assert their power and Bella getting used to her lust for blood. You’ll be able to find out how it all pans out on November 16th.

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Gary Oldman Joins RoboCop Remake – Playing a character unique to the reboot

24th May 2012 By Tim Isaac

The always dependable Gary Oldman has signed on to star in MGM Studios’ planned remake of the classic half-man half-machine sci-fi RoboCop, which José Padilha (Elite Squad) is set to direct.

In March that The Killing star Joel Kinnaman signed up to play Alex J. Murphy, a Detroit cop who is shot and left for dead on the street. He is rebuilt as the half-man half-robot crime-fighting machine known as RoboCop, who goes on a mission to clean up the mean streets.

Gary Oldman will play Norton, the scientist who created the title character and becomes torn between the morality of this machine trying to reclaim its humanity, and the needs of the corporation he works for. The character was not featured in the original 1987 Robocop, but could be an interesting addition.

The film will shoot in Toronto later this year. (Source: THR)

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Rupert Grint Lands Two Roles – He’ll appear in Charlie Countryman and CBGB

24th May 2012 By Tim Isaac

While Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have been lining up movie roles, things have been quieter on the Rupert Grint front. However now the young actor has booked two roles, according to Variety, as he’ll appear in Fredrik Bond’s The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman and Randall Miller’s CBGB.

In The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, Shia LaBeouf stars as Charlie Countryman, who is just a normal guy until he falls in love with the one girl who will probably get him killed. When Charlie meets the absolutely irresistible Gabi she’s already been claimed by Nigel, an insanely violent crime boss with a gang of thugs at his disposal. It isn’t known exactly who grint will play.

CBGB recently booked Alan Rickman to CBGB club owner Hilly Kristal. The film follows the New York City club’s impact on the underground music scene, where it almost inadvertently gave birth to punk. Grint will play Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys, who played a prominent role during the club’s rise.

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Universal Plans Lego Hero Factory Movie – With robots fighting off intergalactic baddies

24th May 2012 By Tim Isaac

Despite the fact it’s deal with Hasbro hasn’t turned out so well, with several movies being dropped from production and Battleship sinking at the box office, Universal Pictures isn’t completely giving up toys and game adaptation, as it’s in negotiations for the screen rights to Lego’s Hero Factory line of toys.

These toys, which took over from the Bionicle line in 2010, are rather different than the rest of Lego’s products, as each character fits into a sprawling mythology. The story takes place on a planet that manufactures heroic robots to fend off evil intergalactic forces. Hero Factory has also branched out into other arenas, with a comic book line, computer application, and various other things.

The project will be a live-action movie set within the established mythology. Michael Finch and Alex Litvak (Predators) are in talks to write the screenplay.

It’s not the only Lego movie in development, as Warner is working on a film about the more traditional brick type Lego and its world, which will be a family comedy.

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New Trailer For The Watch – Ben Stiller and co. take on an alien invasion

24th May 2012 By Tim Isaac

After a Florida Neighbourhood Watch leader shot a black teenager in Florida, Fox decided this might be problematic with it’s planned film, Neighbourhood Watch. Cue a title change to The Watch and now a new trailer that sells the sci-fi angle of the film far more than anything that could in anyway be construed as vigilante action. The film is about a suburban neighborhood watch group that serves as a front for dads to get some male-bonding time away from their families. The group finds itself in over its head when it uncovers an alien plot to destroy the world.

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Martha Marcy May Marlene (Blu-ray) – ‘A fantastically dark cult movie, brilliantly acted’

24th May 2012 By Tim Isaac


Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) is a seemingly typical 20-something girl. Struggling to find her identity in the world and dealing with unknown family problems she falls in with a commune of people who she believes will take care of her. However as the film unravels, it peels the layers away and gives us glimpses of the commune’s sinister, cultish leanings.

MMMM is a very impressive debut film from director Sean Durkin. A thriller disguised as a drama, it’s dark inner leanings boil slowly up to the surface as the film goes on. Durkin uses restraint extremely well throughout the film. At times it feels as if it could have easily fallen into schlocky horror exploitation territory, but Durkin instead decides to splice together Martha’s struggle to reintegrate herself into her sister Lucy’s (Sarah Paulson) upper-class normal life and her integration into the cult.

The film has a lot going for it, with a fantastic cast led by the previously mentioned Olsen, along with John Hawkes as the cult leader Patrick. He plays a rather calm but also deeply terrifying character, who displays his power among the cult by renaming all of the women himself and carrying out ritualistic rape when he chooses to, which the elder women of the cult refer to as ‘cleansing’. His anger only comes to the fore in a few scenes, but you can’t help but feel his dark side throughout.

The film uses parallels and contrasts throughout, cutting between the present and Martha’s past seamlessly, giving the film an often dreamlike quality. This may be a subtle form of showing Martha’s loss of reality and fall into paranoid delusions. The film’s themes also fantastically contrast with a heavy palette of gold and yellow, which increase the picturesque ideals when in fact something much darker and more sinister is going on beneath the surface.

As MMMM continues, Martha’s paranoia and social detachment from the real world start to show, starting off as simple acts such as having no social inhibitions when she jumps happily into a public lake in the nude, to Martha walking in on Lucy and her husband having sex. Martha never tells Lucy and her husband what actually happened at the cult, making it extremely hard for them to understand what is going on, but Olsen plays the character so well you can see the pain and torture in her eyes.

Some people may find the ambiguity of the film a little hard, especially the ending, but it feels as if closure was given, the film would have been unsatisfying. Sometimes it works to leave the audience scratching their heads as the credits role.

The Blu-ray transfer is good, feeling very crisp despite the cheap format that the movie was filmed on. The sound is good, although in several scenes the dialogue is muffled on purpose, so don’t adjust your sets! The special features are chock full of featurettes and Durkin’s prologue to MMMM, Mary Last Seen.

Overall Verdict: A fantastically dark cult movie, brilliantly acted by the entire cast and a promising debut from both director Sean Durkin and, as an adult, serious actress, Elizabeth Olsen. That’s said, the film’s ambiguity may be a little hard for some.

Special Features:
Mary Last Seen
Spotlight on Elizabeth Olsen
Featurette: The Story
Featurette: The Psyche of a cult
Marcy’s Song Music Video
A conversation with the filmmakers
Theatrical trailer

Reviewer: Gareth Haworth

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