Brand New “Centurion” Photos
Brand new photos from new fantasy adventure movie “Centurion“ have been revealed today. As always click on the photos for the larger version.
Michael Fassbender As Quintus Dias In “Centurion”
The movie directed by Neil Marshall (”Doomsday,” “The Descent“) and based on a script he wrote stars Olga Kurylenko (Hitman, Quantum of Solace), Michael Fassbender (Hunger, 300, Fish Tank), Dominic West (Punisher: War Zone), Noel Clarke, JJ Feild, Imogen Poots, David Morrissey, Paul Freeman, Lee Ross, Ulrich Thomsen and Riz Ahmed.
“Fish Tank” Trailer
Take a look at fantastic trailer for “Fish Tank” directed and written by Andrea Arnold.
“Fish Tank” tells the story of 15-year-old Mia whose life is turned on its head when her mother brings home a new boyfriend.
This is the latest movie from Arnold, Academy Award-winning British filmmaker (Best Short Film “Wasp”). She won 2006 Cannes Jury Prize for “Red Road.” “Fish Tank” is screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in competition and also won Jurry Prize.
French Fish Tank Poster
A French poster for upcoming “Fish Tank,” extraordinary films about ordinary people, has been revealed.
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
“Fish Tank” is a coming of age movie set on a rundown English council estate. The characters are filled with equal measures of frustration, anger, longing and alcohol, without means to release the pressure. The decaying situation is played out with a credibility that leaves the audience unsurprised at the outcomes but gripped by the tension. With nowhere to go but down, the mood is deliberately oppressive. The tank is grimy, and breathing underwater almost impossible, but even so we glimpse gold on the scales of these fish.
Jonah Hex Poster: Josh Brolin and Megan Fox
Yahoo! Movies has released the new poster for “Jonah Hex,” the DC Comics adaptation starring Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, and John Malkovich.
The DC Comics adaptation revolves around a bounty hunter, an American Civil War veteran with scars covering the right side of his face, who attempts to stop a Southern plantation owner from raising an army of the undead. The movie will be a sort of sci-fi western, even though the comic book is not sci-fi at all.
Jonah Hex first appeared in the early 1970s in the issues of “All-Star Western” before graduating to his own series in 1977 that ran for about 10 years. A new series was launched in 2005. The character also had a run in the 1990s that combined the Western genre with supernatural elements.
Directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!), the graphic novel adaptation also stars Michael Fassbender, Michael Shannon and Will Arnett.
“Jonah Hex” is scheduled to hit theaters on August 6th, 2010.
Inglourious Basterds Reviews
“Inglourious Basterds ” has been finally premiered on Wednesday May 20, 2009 at Cannes Film Festival.
Quentin Tarantino who has already won a Palme d’Or at Cannes for “Pulp Fiction” in 1994, and his new movie is in contention for the top prize at Cannes, has said: “I’m expecting this to be one of the high moments of my career. There is nothing like it in cinema… Directors in my situation don’t normally go this direction, especially when they’re doing something really big.”
“It’s like a Quentin Tarantino movie on steroids and speed. It’s a movie that takes place in World War Two, but this is not a World War Two movie,” Eli Roth said of the film.
We are not in Cannes, unfortunately, so we haven’t seen Quentin Tarantino’s “Ingluorious Basterds” but you can read the reviews from other sites – both the positive and the negative ones. You can read the two contrasting opinions just from Totalfilm, Screendaily is very mixed too, but Variety gives positive review. However, we must wait “Inglourious Basterds ” August US release.
“Given what the world expects from Quentin Tarantino – the man, the myth, the pastiche-driven movie machine – his latest feature, “Inglourious Basterds,” stands out for its seemingly low ambition. Talked about for years by the filmmaker as his epic “guys-on-a-mission” movie, the final product, unveiled this morning in Cannes, certainly meets those standards.
The story of Nazi-hunting Jewish soldiers delivers on the colorful brand of unserious entertainment implied by the plot, but no matter how much extreme contextualization and heavily stylized techniques Tarantino introduced to the production, “Inglorious Basterds” feels like a bubblegum sidedish to the heavy dinner plate of his career.” IndieWire
“An intermittently-inspired World War II epic which illustrates both Quentin Tarantino’s brilliance and his tendency towards indulgence, Inglourious Basterds is composed of a series of long-running vignettes strung together by a slender story thread. The problem is that no one character or set of characters runs through the entire two-and-a-half hour running time, and, with some of the scenes running up to half an hour each, the thread of the drama is left disjointed and the focus ever-changing.
Above-the-title star Brad Pitt plays the captain of a troupe of Jewish American renegades dubbed the Inglorious Bastards, but Pitt is far from the centre of attention and both French actress Melanie Laurent and German actor Christoph Waltz both have more screen time and juicier roles…” ScreenDaily
“…It’s an audacious, and, when it comes to timing, indulgent work – some sequences (the prologue, a lengthy interlude in a cellar) run to more than 20 minutes; this comes after what must have been drastic cutting, as Maggie Cheung does not appear at all in the finished product shown in Cannes today, Mike Myers only has one scene and even Michael Fassbender comes and goes with alarming alacrity…” ScreenDaily Blog – Fionnuala Halligan
Inglourious Basterds Three New Movie Clips
Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” will be premiered on Wednesday May 20, 2009 at Cannes Film Festival In Competition.
Three new movie clips have been released today. Check them out below.
Tarantino has described the movie, set in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War, as “a spaghetti western with World War Two iconography”. The peculiar title is borrowed from Enzo Castellari’s 1978 film “Inglorious Bastards.”
“Inglourious Basterds” features a large cast including Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet, Cloris Leachman, Maggie Cheung and Samuel L. Jackson.
For more movie info, trailers, photos and posters go to “Inglourious Basterds” FF Movie Page
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Cannes 2009: Fish Tank Movie Clip
UPDATE: “Fish Tank” Trailer
UPDATE May 24, 2009 CANNES 2009 WINNERS
“Fish Tank,” the latest movie from Academy Award-winning British writer and director Andrea Arnold premieres at the Cannes film festival on Thursday in competition for the coveted Palme d’Or.
This is Arnold’s second feature following her 2006 Cannes Jury Prize winner “Red Road.”
“Fish Tank” tells the story of 15-year-old Mia whose life is turned on its head when her mother brings home a new boyfriend.
Arnold casts the same unflinching, unprejudiced gaze and touches on the themes of her Oscar-winning short “Wasp” to create an original and unsettling tale for our age.
Following his acclaimed central performance in “Hunger,” Michael Fassbender (”300,” “Inglourious Basterds“) stars opposite talented newcomer Katie Jarvis. Gritty, sassy and brutal “Fish Tank” also stars BAFTA-nominated Kierston Wareing (Ken Loach’s “It’s a Free World“), Harry Treadaway (”Control,” “Brothers of the Head“) and 12 year old Rebecca Griffiths making her film debut.
First review from Screendaily is positive, highlighting the performances of newcomer Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender – this was expected as Andrea Arnold manages to get topnotch performances from her actors.
New Photos From Neil Marshall’s Centurion
Today we have new images from Neil Marshall’s epic action film “Centurion.“
Synopsis: The British-set sword and sandals thriller, set during the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 117, details the story of Quintus Dias, sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, who marches north with General Virilus’ legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the earth and destroy their leader Gorlacon.
“Centurion” stars Olga Kurylenko (Hitman, Quantum of Solace), Michael Fassbender (Hunger, 300), Dominic West (Punisher: War Zone), Noel Clarke, JJ Feild and Riz Ahmed. It is tentatively scheduled to hit theaters later this year. [source: /Film, Empire]
Inglourious Basterds American Idol Clip
Last night’s American Idol featured an exclusive clip from Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds.” Yes, this little clip aired during American Idol because Tarantino did actually appear on the show last night.
The clip has some some great movie footage, behind the scenes footage, and your first look at Mike Meyers as General Ed Fench.
“Inglourious Basterds” which is set to premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival sees Brad Pitt as Lt Aldo Raine, commander of a unit whose mission is to kill and dismember Germans during the Second World War.
The movie also stars Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Sylvester Groth, Julie Dreyfus, Jacky Ido, August Diehl, Martin Wuttke, Richard Sammel, Christian Berkel, Sonke Mohring, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Denis Menochet, Cloris Leachman, Maggie Cheung and Samuel L. Jackson.
The movie is scheduled to hit theaters on August 21, 2009.
For more movie info, trailers, photos and posters go to “Inglourious Basterds” FF Movie Page
Inglourious Basterds’ Premiere At Cannes Film Festival 2009
During the last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino promised to return this year at Cannes with his new film.
”The next movie I’m doing is my World War II movie. I just finished up the first draft and if all goes well, I will be here, in Cannes, in 2009 with “Inglorious Bastards”, Tarantino said then.
We can say now that he kept promising because it’s been confirmed that “Inglourious Basterds” will have its world premiere during the prestigious French film festival. “Inglorious Bastards” will be “in competition” at Cannes Film Festival 2009.
Tarantino previously won the Palme d’Or prize at Cannes for “Pulp Fiction” in 1994. He hasn’t won any awards since then. However, a decade later he has been invited back as a member of the jury. Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” was not in competition that year, but it did unspool on the fest’s final night in its original 3-hour-plus version.
The full 62nd Cannes Film Festival line-up will be unveiled on April 23, with the festival running from May 13- 24, 2009.
Universal and The Weinstein Company will debut “Inglourious Basterds” in theaters officially in the US on August 21st, 2009.
