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Kristen Stewart May Lead A New Charlie’s Angels Movie

30th September 2017 By Tim Isaac

After Twilight and Snow White & The Huntsman, Kristen Stewart has spent the majority of her time making indie movies and more dramatic porjects. However, if Sony gets their way, she’ll be coming back to the big budget mainstream as one of a new band of Charlie’s Angels.

Variety reports that the studio and director Elizabeth Banks are looking at Stewart, although it doesn’t appear Kristen is ready to sign up just yet. She is apparently near the top of a list that includes several other actresses being considered for the kick-ass team, including Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o.

The planned film will reboot the franchise once more, following the 1970s TV shows, the early 2000s movies (which starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu), and a short-lived 2011 TV reinvention. It will again follow a team of female private detectives, although not much is known about whether the plot or how it will handle the Angels concept.

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ACTORS: Kristen Stewart, Lupita Nyong'o  

Personal Shopper (Blu-ray Review)

16th July 2017 By Tim Isaac

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin
Directed By: Olivier Assayas
Running Time: 106 mins
BBFC Certificate: 15
UK Release Date: July 17th 2017 (UK)

Our Score

Personal Shopper got a strange reaction on its Cannes debut. It was booed at the critics screening, but then got a standing ovation at the official showing. It eventually won Best Director for Olivier Assayas. Even when it was released in cinemas, the reviews were incredibly polarised. Some said it was a ‘masterwork’, while others thought it was total mess. As so often with these things, the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Maureen (Kristen Stewart) is working as a personal shopper/assistant for a rich, snooty celebrity in Paris. However, she also has some psychic ability, and is trying to connect to her twin brother Lewis, who died in France from a congenital condition that could also kill Maureen. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin  DIRECTORS: Olivier Assayas  

Personal Shopper Trailer – Kristen Stewart has an unusual haunting

5th February 2017 By Tim Isaac

Personal Shopper certainly divided audiences at Cannes last year eliciting boos at the critics screening and a standing ovation the next night on its official premiere. The Times summed it up as, ‘Think of an episode of Scooby-Doo, add product placement by Chanel, plus a soupçon of French existentialism, and you have some sense of the sheer bonkersness of Personal Shopper.’

The film is heading towards its March general release, and as a result a trailer has arrived.

In the movie, ‘A young American in Paris works as a personal shopper for a celebrity. She seems to have the ability to communicate with spirits, like her recently deceased twin brother. Soon, she starts to receive ambiguous messages from an unknown source.’

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Kristen Stewart  DIRECTORS: Olivier Assayas  

Cafe Society (DVD Review)

27th December 2016 By Tim Isaac

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively, Ken Stott
Directed By: Woody Allen
Running Time: 94 mins
BBFC Certificate: 12
UK Release Date: December 26th 2016 (UK)

Our Score

We’ve long reached the point when a new Woody Allen movie isn’t something to get excited about anymore, but it’s also certainly not something to dread either. This year he returns with Café Society, another Allen movie we can add to his recent list of his films that are decent enough, but nothing particularly special.

The director is not on-screen this time (although he does narrate), with Jesse Eisenberg stepping in to be Café Society’s 1930s Woody surrogate, a young Jewish New Yorker called Bobby, who’s a bit lost in life and so decides to head to LA. His Uncle Phil (Steve Carell) is a high-powered movie agent who Bobby hopes can help him get his start. Phil hires Bobby to do odd jobs, which brings him into the sphere of Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Blake Lively, Jesse Eisenberg, Ken Stott, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell  DIRECTORS: Woody Allen  

New Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Teaser Trailer – Ang Lee does a military tale his own way

27th October 2016 By Tim Isaac

billy-lynns-long-halftime-walk-joe-alswynThere was a lot of anticipation for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, partly because it’s Ang Lee’s first movie since the Oscar winning The Life Of Pi, and partly because he was planning something no one had done before – something made and projected in 3D at 120 frames per second (more than double The Hobbit’s 48fps). However, reviews from the New York Film Festival were middling, with some saying the high frame rate ruined the moviegoing experience.

The fact is though, the full 120fps will only be available in a handful of theatres (just two in the whole of the US), and the trailer does make it look very intriguing.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Three-time Academy Award® winner Ang Lee brings his extraordinary vision to Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel. The film is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened to the squad – contrasting the realities of the war with America’s perceptions. The film also stars Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel, and Steve Martin. Lee used new technology, shooting at an ultra-high frame rate for the first time in film history, to create an immersive digital experience helping him dramatize war in a way never seen before.’

It’ll be out in cinemas towards the end of the year. It’s in US cinemas on November 11th and the UK on January 6th. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Joe Alwyn, Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, Vin Diesel, Steve Martin  DIRECTORS: Ang Lee  FILMS: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk  

Equals (DVD Review)

2nd October 2016 By Tim Isaac

equals-slideStarring: Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce
Directed By: Drake Doremus
Running Time: 101 mins
BBFC Certificate: 12
UK Release Date: October 3rd 2016

Our Score

Following a devastating war that has destroyed most of the Earth’s habitable surface, one of two remaining populations now lives in a sterile world, having completely suppressed and eradicated their emotions. However, sometimes the methods used to rid them of their primitive urges don’t work, and people end up with ‘Switched On Syndrome’, where their emotions begin to rise.

Silas (Nicholas Hoult) discovers that he is ‘infected’, and that he will eventually reach Stage 3, where he’ll be carted off and given a ‘death scenario’. He starts to fall for co-worker Nia (Kristen Stewart), who he discovers also has the ‘disease’ but is hiding it. They know that if their relationship is discovered there will be serious repercussions, but they cannot help but fall deeper in love.

It’s a potentially interesting premise, but Equals doesn’t live up to its potential. Too much of it doesn’t make sense, and there are far too many questions left unanswered. It’s particularly difficult not to notice these issues due to the fact that Equals moves so slowly. With its visually arresting imagery and quiet demeanour, it’s rather like a sci-fi short film that’s been stretched out over 100 minutes. However, it only has enough plot for about half an hour, and 90% of that plot is extremely predictable.

The whole thing feels like it needed to be developed more. There’s too little feel for what it’s like to live with no emotion, and the potentially fascinating idea of someone coming to have them for the first time isn’t handled in a genuine or logical way. I did wonder whether the film is striving towards a metaphor for gay people having to hide sexuality, particularly with an underground group of people with emotions that Silas discovers, but it never feels like it’s taken anywhere or that it’s gotten to grips with what it’s talking about. Like much of the rest of the movie, it ends up a hint towards something it doesn’t know what to do with.

Ultimately it’s a movie where everyone involved knows they’ve got a good idea, and they’ve spent an awful lot of time making that idea look good (on what was probably a fairly small budget). Sadly though, they’ve spent far less time ensuring the events and emotions are coherent and engaging. Hopefully one day someone can give it another go around with a little more thought, as there is plenty of potential. They can even bring Nicholas Hoult along, as he’s very good as Silas, but he’s generally better than everything that’s going on around him.

Overall Verdict: A great idea is turned into a rather dull slice of sci-fi, which stretches a small amount of predictable plot far past breaking point.

Reviewer: Tim Isaac

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ACTORS: Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart, Guy Pearce  DIRECTORS: Drake Doremus  
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