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Another prestigious honour at the Cannes Film Festival has added further weight to Jane Campion’s legendary status in cinema. But the fact there aren’t more female directors at the top still irks the Australian-based, New Zealand-born film maker.
PITCH PERFECT (Universal) Director: Jason Moore Starring: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow I normally give musical films a wide berth. The idea of people breaking into full song – or, in the case of Pitch Perfect, giving us acapella takes on pop hits – makes my skin crawl.
The popular video game Angry Birds is jumping off smart phones and onto the big screen in a new animated 3D film due to be released in 2016, Sony Pictures Entertainment announced.
When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by King Kong that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his desire as an adult, thrilling audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigantic octopus destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, and a six-armed dancing goddess
Disney is turning Star Wars films into an annual ritual. Walt Disney chairman Alan Horn has announced that the studio would release films set in a galaxy far, far away every year starting in 2015
Movie fans have come to learn that Marvel likes to include something special for all those who stay to the very end of its films. Iron Man’s post-credit scene with Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury started the whole shebang off, hinting at an Avengers team-up further down the line.
Ryan Reynolds went through a phase of reading “every self-help book” around. The hunk was named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2010 and is married to gorgeous Gossip Girl star Blake Lively.
Colin Trevorrow is taking the reins of
I’m obsessed with films about obsessive subcultures-so-called “geeksploitation” films. High Fidelity
Lena Dunham’s insists her nudity in Girls isn’t to “land screen caps on blogs”. The creator-and-star of the hit HBO series is regularly sans clothes on screen and has revealed why the scenes are warranted