Geek Overture

Well the first bunch of reviews are in for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and they’re not as positive as I (or Peter Jackson for that matter) would have hoped. In fact, some critics have been rather scathing. It’s a far cry from the tidal wave of critical acclaim that accompanied Jackson’s first three Tolkien [...]

It’s the first trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness, the follow up to 2009′s art house mood piece Star Trek. There’s still no reveal of what character Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing but he’s out for revenge and looks like he’ll be doing long speeches with gravitas.  The cast are all back as is director [...]

We’re over the hump, and heading downhill into the weekend, hurrah! If you’re heading to the cinema, here’s some of the films that we think you should catch. Apparently there is this obscure vampire flick in cinemas…? More on that later, but first let’s start with: Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper stars with Jennifer Lawrence [...]

It’s the brand new trailer for Iron Man 3. Following the excess and wisecracks of The Avengers, it seems like Marvel and director Shane Black are taking a different approach with the third Iron Man movie and going for something altogether darker. If terrorists can break into Tony Stark’s pad then what hope is there [...]

The Lone Ranger rides again in a new film starring Arnie Hammer. Well you know, he’s kinda lone. He always goes around with Tonto, as played by Johnny Depp this time around. What’s that? He’s not surrounded by any other Rangers and that’s why he’s lone. I see now. Anyway it’s brought to you by [...]

Oh James, where have you been? After an added delay due to financing issues at MGM, Bond 23 arrives in screens around the world this Autumn and it looks like the stakes has been raised significantly since Quantum of Solace. Daniel Craig looks like he may just have the film to match his incarnation of [...]

“Don’t mess with Liam Neeson” was the message of the first Taken but the bad guys just can’t take a hint and want revenge. Well that gives Neeson’s Bryan Mills a perfect excuse to break out his particular set of skills to save his wife and daughter played by Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen. Why [...]

It’s the trailer for Cloud Atlas, a time and multi-life spanning adaptation of David Mitchell’s impossible adapt novel. Whether it works as a film remains to be seen but the trailer sure is pretty and the cast featuring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent is certainly impressive. Directed by Tom Tykwer, and the Wachowskis, Cloud Atlas [...]

Superman returns (again) in a new movie from Zack Snyder with the Man of Steel being played by British actor Henry Cavill. This film takes the Kryptonian right back to the beginning with a new origin story which seems reasonable given the last cinematic origin was way back in 1978. I mean we all know [...]

  The showcasing of the Emirati short film Sabeel at the opening of the Panorama Des Cinemas du Maghreb et du Moyen Orient (Panorama of Cinema from the Maghreb and Middle East) in Paris last week has been hailed as proof of Dubai’s growing reputation for quality filmmaking. The Paris festival’s showing of the film [...]