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Robert de Niro Confirmed for Last Vegas – Starring alongside Michael Douglas

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A couple of weeks ago rumours emerged that Robert De Niro was considering starring in the comedy Last Vegas, alongside two-time Oscar-winner Michael Douglas. Now THR reports he’s officially onboard what’s been described as a retirement-age Hangover.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman (Crazy Stupid Love), Last Vegas is a comedy about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single. De Niro will play the party-averse Paddy Connelly, who reluctantly agrees to fly to Vegas at the request of his friends. Douglas will play Billy Gerson, a lifelong bachelor, who has finally decided to take the plunge into marriage.

The film will be shopped to distributors at Cannes, with plans to start shooting later this year.

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Rachel McAdams Up For About Time – She’s in talks for Richard Curtis’ film

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For a while now, Richard Curtis has been working on his next directorial venture, a time-travel comedy called About Time. A few weeks ago Zooey Dechanel was in talks for the female lead, but it seems she’s moved on, as THR reports that Rachel McAdams is now in discussions to take on the role.

Domhnall Gleeson is set to play a young man who discovers he has the ability to travel back in time. While this might sound like a rather cool power, but it begins to cause more trouble than it’s worth when he meets the woman of his dreams (McAdams). Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Lydia Wilson and Vanessa Kirby are also set to star.

You’d have thought McAdams might have had enough of temporally problematic lovers in The Tim Traveller’s Wife, but if things pan out, she’ll shoot About Time this summer.

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New The Odd Life of Timothy Green Trailer – Jennifer Garner & Joel Edgerton have a magic child

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If a child just turned up on your doorstep, would you keep him, or would you phone child services? While 99.9% of the population would do the latter, Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton just decide to keep him, believing he’s the embodiment of a wish they made to have a child. Presumably their right, as this is a Disney movie and not some hard-hitting tale about weird, delusional parents. Now a new trailer for the film has arrived. It’s out in the US in August, but no UK date is set yet.

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The Paperboy Clip – Matthew McConaughey & John Cusack in Lee Daniels’ follow-up to Precious

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It’s been an uphill struggle for Lee Daniels to make a follow-up to Previous, but now he’s got The Paperboy, which will debut in competition at Cannes later this month. The first clip has now been released, with Matthew McConaughey’s reporter talking to John Cusack about a murder. The film is about a directionless young man (Zac Efron) who helps his reporter brother (McConaughey) investigate the possible wrongful conviction of a man on death row (Cusack), and in the process, falls for the woman whom the convict has been romancing through prison correspondence. It shoulld be out later this year.

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Mothman (DVD) – Death by CGI trash bags!

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It’s rather odd that a small, provincial supernatural legend has managed to spawn two films, especially as that legend is incredibly dumb. Buy hey, the 2002 Richard Gere movie The Mothman Prophecies was actually a lot better than it had any right to be. Sadly the same can’t be said for Mothman.

A group of teenagers are having a swim one night and telling scary stories about the local legend of the mothman – a man shaped killer creature said to live nearby – to one of their younger brothers. Deciding the kid isn’t scared enough, they start to prank him, pulling him under the water, but soon things have gone too far and he’s drowned. 10 years later one of the teens, Katherine (Firefly’s Jewel Staite), is now a journalist sent back to her hometown to report on the local mothman festival. Almost as soon as she arrives and all those responsible for the drowning are back together, the mothman turns out to be very real. It’s a demonic avenging angel that emerges out of reflective surfaces to kill those who’ve gotten away with murder, and it’s determined to kill everyone involved in the death of the boy.

I don’t think I really need to say much more as you can probably tell just from that synopsis that this is not going to be joining Halloween and Psycho among the all-time horror greats. While there are worse films out there, Mothman ain’t great, with a plot that ranges from the perfunctory to the downright dumb, a bunch of completely interchangeable characters and a killer creature that lacks any logic, even on its own terns, with its exact need for reflections changing from appearance to appearance. It doesn’t help either that the Mothman special effects are pretty rubbish, and it rather undermines any terror when it look like our protagonists are being attacked by CGI trash bags with glowing red eyes.

However I’m sure there are many of you out there who like low-rent horror, and it does just about fit the bill on that score, although if you’re hoping the gore will make up for the daftness of the rest of the film, there’s a bit of blood and guts, but not a vast amount. My personal Mothman Prophecy is that most people watching this will think it’s a bit rubbish.

Overall Verdict: Low rent horror which just about passes the time even if it’s interminably dumb.

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Reviewer: Tim Isaac

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WIN! A Good Old Fashioned Orgy On DVD – Three copies of the Jason Sudeikis comedy to give away

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The raucous comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy is out to buy on May 14th, and we’ve got three copies of the Jason Sudeikis film to give away of DVD in this competition!

Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses, Hall Pass) is Eric, a thirty-something party animal famous among his close circle of friends for his lavish summer theme parties at his father’s swanky Hamptons pad. But when members of the crew start settling down, and Eric’s dad, played by Don Johnson (Miami Vice), announces plans to sell the beach house, Eric decides it’s time for one last bash to go out with a proverbial bang – a good old-fashioned orgy. The only obstacles to overcome are actually convincing each of his reluctant friends to join in on the bacchanal, and an inconveniently blossoming romance with the real estate agent played by Leslie Bibb (Talladega Nights) threatening to sell the house out from under him before the main event can even take place.

It’s great fun and if you’d like to try and win one of the three copies of A Good Old Fashioned Orgy on DVD that we’ve got to give away, sign in to the site below (or click here to register) and answer the multiple choice question (see below for more details on how to enter). The competition closes on May 24th, 2012, so get answering and good luck!

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