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Bill Murray to return in Ghostbusters 3

Posted by Matt at 14:45 on 08 Feb 2010
Bill Murray to return in Ghostbusters 3
…but to tell you any more here would be revealing a potential spoiler. Therefore, don't click into this article if you don't want to know the news that everyone else will read and eventually blab to you anyway.

Weekend round-up: Spider-Man, Daredevil and Smurfs

Posted by Matt at 21:54 on 07 Feb 2010
Weekend round-up: Spider-Man, Daredevil and Smurfs
Here's another instalment of the inexplicably popular Weekend round-up, where we trawl through the week's news and highlight those stories that didn't otherwise make it on . This week: more Bourne, more Kill Bill, more American Psycho?

Dances With Films: 10 Sundance movies to look out for

Posted by Darren at 20:43 on 07 Feb 2010
Dances With Films: 10 Sundance movies to look out for
The 40,000 discerning cinema fans lucky enough to be in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival during the last ten days of January, would have become privy to the films that will keep the art-house cinematic subculture alive in the forthcoming year. So without further ado, here are some of the films that gained exposure at Sundance 2010.

Review: A Prophet

Posted by Matt at 19:53 on 07 Feb 2010
A Prophet
There are lots of things you can do with a long-term prison sentence: you can tie a knot in your shirt and reassess your sexuality, you can use a rock hammer to tunnel behind a poster of Raquel Welch, or, if you are anything like A Prophet's Malik, you can slowly build contacts to become a badass gang boss.

Jason Segel and Paul Rudd are high

Posted by Ali at 19:33 on 07 Feb 2010
Jason Segel and Paul Rudd are high
A video has surfaced of comedians Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, bored by their UK press junket for I Love You, Man, apparently stoned out of their minds. Uhh... hur-hur-hur. I said 'junk'.

Taylor Lautner is... Stretch Armstrong!

Posted by Ali at 14:25 on 06 Feb 2010
Taylor Lautner is... Stretch Armstrong!
Check your calendars: it's not April the 1st. Twilight mini-hunk Taylor Lautner has been tapped up to play Stretch Armstrong in the forthcoming big-budget 3D movie. I couldn't make up a story this good.

New Cop Out trailer restores faith in Kevin Smith

Posted by Matt at 20:18 on 05 Feb 2010
New Cop Out trailer restores faith in Kevin Smith
The new trailer for Cop Out has been released, and along with it comes the welcome relief that we don't have to give up on the foul-mouthed Kevin Smith just yet – Yay! *hugs life-sized cardboard cut-out of Randall*

Watchmen sequels on the way?

Posted by Matt at 14:45 on 04 Feb 2010
Watchmen sequels on the way?
Hollywood may have given us lightsabers, hoverboards, killer robots from the future and Lord Nicolas Cage, but I am currently a mere gag reflex away from spewing vengeful loathing all over its starched shirt and tie-pin.

International red-band Kick-Ass trailer

Posted by Ali at 23:07 on 02 Feb 2010
International red-band Kick-Ass trailer
Hell to the yes. Have your ass kicked by the new Kick-Ass red-band trailer. More fighting! More little kids swearing! More Nic Cage! Pleasure overload!

Cemetery Junction trailer

Posted by Ali at 22:53 on 02 Feb 2010
Cemetery Junction trailer
Behold, the first trailer for Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Cemetery Junction. Do the dance! Do the dance! Hint: he doesn't do the dance.