!‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ will be featured this year at Sundance Film Festival. According to the Sundance peeps, ‘Shut Up and Play The Hits’ is “a documentary that follows LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy over a crucial 48-hour period, from the day of their final gig at Madison Square Garden to the morning after, the official end of one of the best live bands in the world.” Woo! Count us in!   ... read more

Boardwalk Empire has stolen viewer’s hearts over the one and a half years since the first series was aired on US TV in late 2010. The show has been praised for its historical accuracy to the prohibition era of 1920s America. Specifically based in Atlantic City, the show was adapted from a book about the well known criminal mastermind Enoch ‘Nucky’ Johnson entitled ‘Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City’. Directed by Martin... read more

Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up In The Air) Young Adult stars Charlize Theron in the role that has earned her a Golden Globe nomination (Actress Musical/Comedy) as Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When things don’t work out as she had planned she forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t... read more

David Fincher (The Social Network) is one filmmaker people are happy to stretch the ‘auteur’ definition to include. He may not write his own scripts but he certainly has a distinctive oeuvre, which his latest offering slots right into. With a track record for courting controversy, his adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is no exception. No matter how the film is marketed, the public will casually bandy around... read more

Melancholia is the latest film from director Lars von Trier, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland and Alexander Skarsgård. In this beautiful movie about the end of the world, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire’s best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco, with family tensions mounting... read more

Jon Hewitt helms the new Australian thriller ‘X’, which follows two young women in a deadly game of cat and mouse across the streets of Sydney’s Kings Cross.

High class escort Holly is plotting her departure from the game, until meeting teenage runaway Shea while on her last night on the job, working together on a job gone wrong and ending up being witnesses to their client’s murder. Before long, they’re on an out-of-control roller coaster ride through a labyrinth... read more

!Underworld Awakening is the fourth installment of the Underworld film series (vampire/werewolf films pre Twilight) and is due to land in cinemas January 2012. Kate Beckinsale returns as the vampire warrioress Selene, who finds herself imprisioned by humans who now know of the existance of the Vampire and Lycan clans and are hell bent on eradicating both. Basically, Kate Beckinsale back in a shiny black lycra catsuit… Watch the Underworld Awakening trailer below ... read more

!Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum take on the cult TV show that made Johnny Depp famous. Co-written by Hill, the 21 Jump Street movie isn’t a remake of the series, but takes the original show’s premise of utilizing young looking cops and placing them undercover in schools to bust underage crime. From the trailer it looks very much like ‘Superbad’ (Jonah’s fame making movie) mixed with a generic buddy cop flick. Will you go and see the 21 Jump Street movie? Due... read more

18 years after his tragic death, River Phoenix’s final unfinished movie may finally see the light of day.

Dutch director George Sluizer has revealed his plans to complete the thriller, titled ‘Dark Blood’, which was only weeks from finishing before Phoenix collapsed outside Johnny Depp’s LA club The Viper Room in 1993. According to an interview Sluizer did with the Hollywood Reporter recently, he hopes to get the star’s younger brother, actor Joaquin Phoenix to provide the voice-over... read more

My Week With Marilyn is an upcoming British drama, centred around the making of Marilyn Monroe’s 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl, which also starred Laurence Olivier. The film is based on a series of books written by Colin Clark who was assisting on set for the film. Monroe’s new husband, playwright Arthur Miller, had left England whilst she was on set, and henceforth the drama ensures. The eager assistant Clark introduces Monroe to British life and a small... read more