It is 2014 and we geeks have never been more powerful, more profitable, more sexy and more sought after. Hollywood is desperate to spend the GDP of a small African nation to […]
Right now my two favourite things are movies and GTAV. So it is with glee that I found some clever bugger has recreated famous movie moments using GTAV. It is unashamedly geeky […]
Whilst researching an article I am currently in the processing of fleshing out I was looking back through some old box office statistics. As i did I realised that I often forget […]
There was a time not long ago when Ryan Reynolds looked like he might conquer Hollywood. With his mix of uncommonly good looks, matinee smile and natural easy charm he was ideally […]
While it may still be in early development phases with no principle photography shot as yet, an early teaser trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron which aired at Comicon has finally made […]
Synopsis: In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the […]
You know there has been a shift in the paradigm when the internet’s reaction to Ben Affleck’s casting as Batman in Man of Steel 2 makes international news headlines. I posted my […]
Well after much frenzied internet speculation ranging from the sublime (Ryan Gosling, Jon Hamm) to the interesting (Michael Fassbender) to the ridiculous (Michael Keaton to make a return) the identity of the […]
Synopsis: A young woman’s world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects. My Take Few directors working today can run the gauntlet of genre cinema like Steven Soderbergh. […]
Well after the long speculation that the new Dr Who would be either black, a woman, a black woman the new Time Lord has been revealed. And he has chosen to take […]
Well the heatwave is over and my tan is already fading so this feels as good a time as any to kill the Hooray For Movies summer hiatus! My Netflix queue is […]
Synopsis: As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to […]
I am aware that the last couple of weeks has seen a drop in output from Hooray For Movies, something I am not keen to make a regular habit. It has nothing […]
IT’S OFFICIAL THE WORLD WILL END IN 2016! GRAB YOUR LOVED ONES/PETS/IRREPLACEABLE COLLECTABLE FIGURINES THAT ARE STILL IN THEIR ORIGINAL PACKAGING AND NO THEY’RE NOT A TOY GOD YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND […]
Synopsis: A once successful writer decides to return to her Minnesota hometown to try and recapture her youth by rekindling a romance with her now happily married high school sweetheart My Take […]
Will there ever be another Batman as good as Christian Bale? Maybe not. But if we want a Justice League movie in 2015/16 (and I really, really do) then it looks like […]
Synopsis: United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself. My Take […]
Well the news that Independence Day 2 is being made for a 2015 release wasn’t hugely exciting. It just got a little less so with the news that Will Smith is too […]
Synopsis: Two part time inventors, working from their garage, accidently create something more powerful than they are able to comprehend……..I think. I’m not entirely sure My Take The fact I had a […]
Having just booked my tickets to see Man of Steel on it’s opening weekend, it feels an appropriate time to report the news that the sequel is already in pre-production. According to […]
Wisecracking star known for his comedy/action chops, fast mouth and pretty face? Check. Grizzled old star known for being….well…grizzled? Check. Secret department trying to save the world from being overrun by monsters? […]
Michael Caine today made Hollywood’s least surprising announcement by confirming he will be part of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) project Joining Matthew McConawashboard and Anne “WHY WONT ANYONE MENTION MY […]
That’s right, in 2015 Bruce Willis will be returning as John McClane to fight the nurses who keep stealing his stuff at the home. Probably. I mean, dude will be like 70 […]
If the sight of a giant freakin’ robot picking up an OIL TANKER and using it as a BASEBALL BAT against a giant freakin’ MONSTER doesn’t get your geek juices flowing, then……….all […]
A little while ago people started talking about the possibility of crowd funding website Kickstarter as being a potential game changing platform for funding medium budget Hollywood movies. When Veronica Mars fans […]
Having just got back from the cinema at 0015hrs I want to allow the last 2 and a half hours to settle and percolate before I write my full review of Iron […]
Synopsis: The story of Scotty Pelk, a socially inept video store clerk who gets fired from his job and becomes a sensation as an online film critic. My Take I wont lie. I […]
Ok, are we the only ones getting kind of ridiculously geeky excited about the prospect of the Lego Movie next year? It seems like it has been swimmingly along quietly under the […]
Via the fine people at http://www.empireonline.com comes some casting news for the 2014 Godzilla reboot currently in the hands of Monsters director Gareth Edwards. Word has it that Happy Go Lucky’s Sally […]
