Freshly unveiled this morning is the first teaser trailer for the 23rd installment of the James Bond 007 long running movie franchise, Skyfall directed by Sam Mendes. The movie sees the return of Daniel Craig as James Bond alongside Bérénice Marlohe, Judi Dench, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCroy, Albert Finney and Ralph Fiennes. Watch [...]
May 21, 2012
Verse
Film, Trailers
While debuting his new movie at the Cannes Film Festival last week, martial arts legend Jackie Chan announced that the film would be his last in the action genre. After his announcement received widespread coverage, though, the 58-year-old has now clarified things and lets us know that he actually isn’t leaving action films behind. [...]
Taken from the soundtrack to upcoming comedy drama The Obama Effect, down south Hip Hop stars Goodie Mob offer up softly paced, soulful life ruminations on new song “Is That You God?” [...]
May 18, 2012
M. Gosho Oakes
Film, New Music
London is absolutely buzzing with excitement this week as Stateside celebrities make their way over to the UK capital for various different events (most prominently, the Watch The Throne tour which kicks off its European dates tomorrow) – including the Men In Black III UK premiere, which took place last night. [...]
May 17, 2012
Alya Mooro
Arts News, Film
Ron Burgundy, protagonist of 2004 film Anchorman and the man who built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and braun, revealed via his Twitter account yesterday that the official teaser trailer for the film’s sequel would debut ahead of the first showings of The Dictator, and today the studio unveiled the teaser poster for the [...]
Starring in the exciting sci-fi flick Prometheus, which hits cinema screens on June 1st, Idris Elba has confirmed that he will return to play Heimdall in the sequel to last year’s superhero film, Thor. Elba announced his plans in a recent interview with Collider. [...]
May 15, 2012
Andy Bustard
Film, Geek
After Anchorman director Adam McKay sent out a cryptic tweet last week promising a “treat” before airings of Sacha Baron Cohen‘s The Dictator, Ron Burgundy — the world-class news anchor, ladies’ man, jazz flute player and owner of many leather-bound books — took to his own Twitter account yesterday to reveal McKay’s “treat” clue and [...]
Sometimes the hardest thing to do when you look back at a unique situation is to assess its true impact. It is possible to mould the evidence to fit in with whatever narrative you ultimately choose. Such is the case with the L.A. Riots of 1992: you either believe it was a turning point in [...]
Quentin Tarantino‘s highly anticipated new film Django Unchained continues to lose members of its star-studded cast, as Kurt Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen have become the latest to drop out of the production. [...]
While Andre 3000 has touched down in Ireland to begin filming on the John Ridley-directed Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is By My Side, it appears the project might not have the green light after all. According to the Wall Street Journal, Experience Hendrix LLC, the family-owned company that controls the late rockstar’s music and publishing, [...]
May 10, 2012
Andy Bustard
Arts News, Film, Hip Hop, Music