Hollywood

This week – Edward Norton does magic tricks (The Illusionist) and Nicholas Cage sells his soul to the devil and replaces his usual head and motorbike with burning versions (Ghost Rider). But first, a couple of words about Helen Mirren, someone who, on principled grounds, …

This week – The accompanying film to Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, the 1945 invasion of Iwo Jima as experienced by the Japanese Imperial Army. (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Jim Carrey gets obsessed with the number 23 (The Number 23). Today had the …

We’d like to start this week’s run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn’t for them, the rest of us wouldn’t be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star …

This week – Simon Pegg polices the country town of Sandford (Hot Fuzz) and Jennifer Love Hewitt lives in Bristol (The Truth About Love). First, we must say sorry for the lack of Saturday Cinema Summary last week. We were saving London from certain destruction. …

This is a tad bizarre: Former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan has landed the lead role in a remake of 1970s TV show The Bionic Woman. The 22-year-old, who played Zoe Slater in the BBC soap for five years, beat a host of Hollywood names to …

It’s been a while since we caught up with what our favourite Spice Girl, Scary, was up to. Last we saw, she had just moved to the USA to start a new glamorous life for herself in the Hollywood hills. However, she hasn’t been picking …

This week – Leo dodges bullets in Sierra Leone to find a pink diamond (Blood Diamond) and Peter O’Toole flirts with someone 50 years his junior (Venus). First up Blood Diamond. To begin, you must read the most authoritative review of all – our own. …

Leonardo DiCaprio was yesterday nominated for an Oscar for his role as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond, while his co-star, Djimon Hounsou, is up for a Best Supporting Oscar. The film directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, The Siege) is first and foremost an …

This week – Denzel Washington goes back in time (Déjà Vu) and a horrible Christmas slasher, (Black Christmas). We’re going to be frank. There really isn’t anything exciting that has come out this week. Even the reviews are pretty boring. Go and see Pan’s Labyrinth …

We just apologised to LA for sending Jason Statham their way only for him to turn up here again: Hollywood hardman Jason Statham shivered through filming on a chilly East London film set. Crews transformed the cobbled Hoxton street, running next to the arches of …