Archive for September, 2006

‘Red Road’ trailer online

I've been really keen to see the trailer for 'Red Road' for a while now. After it won the Jury Prize at this years Cannes film festival it continued doing the festival tour, Toronto and now the London film festival.
Jackie (Kate Dickie) works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part [...]

The fucking 300 trailer is online! *UPDATED*

*UPDATE* TAKEN OFFLINE BY WARNER BROTHERS *UPDATE*The quicktime version was taken offline by Warner Brothers, but you can still see the video here, and here
There's nothing to say, It looks amazing. There were some other stories I was going to post today, but this has dwarfed them all.
I already mentioned 300 [...]

Neil Marshall’s ‘Doomsday’ gets shooting date

Neil Marshall, the new master of british horror is set to start pre-production on his new film 'Doomsday' on September the 25th, the production scheduled for February the 12th. Somebodies going to have a busy christmas.
The plot of 'Doomsday is still patchy at this point, but apparently focuses on a group of people trying to [...]

McKean and Gaiman to make ‘Signal to Noise’

The word is that the graphic novel 'Signal to Noise', written by Neil Gaiman and visualised on paper by Dave McKean is going into production as a feature film. The pair will be writing the screenplay together and McKean will be directing.
Last years Mirrormask was a fascinating little animated film and was about as 'Dave [...]

‘This is England’ TIFF report

It's not often I say "stop reading solaceincinema and go read this…" but occasionaly I feel inspired to. It's a slow news week and not a lot has been going on so I was trawling through the Toronto film festival reviews over at Twitchfilm. They have a lot of interesting premiers at TIFF and one [...]

Early review and stills from ‘Shoot ‘Em Up’ **UPDATED**

This film sounds awesome, like a 'Commando' for the xbox generation. The plot is delightfuly simple…
A man named Mr. Smith (Owen) delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
I'm loving it. If anyones played 'Black' the self-pescribed "gun porn" console game, [...]

New ‘Casino Royale’ Poster

I hate it when artworkers get a bit crazy in photoshop. The poster looks cool but they've given Daniel Craig weird zombie face. He looks like one of the infected from 'The Omega Man'. Albino death face
This film will still rule.
Check out the bigger version of this poster over at impawards here
And the latest [...]