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3:10 To Yuma
The fact that 3:10 To Yuma made it to the top of the charts in the US and yet barely made a dent in the UK shows how popular films seen as Westerns are over here. It would seem the last Western any of us can recall is The Unforgiven, and that's fifteen years old now.
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No Reservations
Ever since marrying classic codger Michael Doulas, Catherine Zeta-Jones' acting career has been somewhat forgotten in a sea of tabloid and magazine gossip. No Resevations is perhaps the perfect vehicle to bring her thespian talents back into the fore. After all, what gives better focus to a leading actor than a mainstream rom-com?
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Day Watch
When Night Watch was released in its native Russia in 2004, it broke all domestic box office records and made the transition to our screens a year later via a deal struck by Fox Searchlight which enforced an editing of the original to be more palatable to the Blade/Underworld demographic, but in turn agreed to fund the trilogy that director Timur Bekmambetov is now near to completing.
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Run Fatboy, Run
It is undoubtedly the pairing with Edgar Wright that has made Simon Pegg our latest national treasure. Following up classic TV comedy Spaced with the equally classic cinema comedies Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, it's no surprise that the first sight of the blonde funster instantly raises our expectations.
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1408
Mikael Hafstrom is probably best known in the UK as director of 2005’s thriller Derailed, which might lead you to assume that 1408 is his first foray into horror. However, he’s actually been a fairly long-term scare-meister from the small screen.
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Knocked Up
With the forthcoming release of the much-anticipated Superbad, it seems like we might have found a new comedy pairing in Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. However, unlike Superbad, which has been marketed as a goofball teen comedy, some of Knocked Up’s marketing dollars seem to have actually been spent on netting a female audience.
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Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof
Tarantino loves asses. If there’s one thing you are sure of right from the opening of his latest slasher/actionfest it’s that he is definitely a legs and backside man. And he still likes feet a lot.
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Eagle Vs Shark
Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon Dynamite, Napoleon Dynamite. If you've read even the smallest press clipping regarding Eagle Vs Shark, you will no doubt have come across comparisons between these two films.
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Rush Hour 3
It has been six years since the last Rush Hour film graced our cinema screens, but, perhaps thanks to Hollywood's aversion to ageing, Rush Hour 3 features a little bit of exposition where Chris Tucker's character assures us that it has only been three.
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Hairspray
Hairspray started off its life as a film by trash maestro John Waters, before being converted into an all-out stage musical in 2002. This 2007 edition of the film is based on the musical rather than the original 1988 film, but the basic story elements remain the same.
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