Tag Archives: Total Film

DOA (1950) The Noir There’s a lot of debate about what makes a proper film noir (for the record, this list excludes any of the ‘neo-noirs’ like Blood Simple, Chinatown, Blade Runner and Se7en that would otherwise have made the cut), but there’s no question about Rudolph Maté’s classic. “I …

Star Wars: Episode VII has suffered its first major hiccup during filming, with Harrison Ford having broken his ankle on the set of the forthcoming space sequel. The injury is said to have been caused by the door of the Millennium Falcon, with THR reporting a clarifying statement from Disney: …

Dog Day Afternoon (1975) The Tragic True Story: On 22 August 1972, John Stanley Wojtowicz attempted to rob a bank (along with Salvatore Naturale and Robert Westenberg) in order to pay for the sex reassignment surgery of Wojtowicz’s transgender partner, Ernest Aron. Wojtowicz was arrested but Naturale was killed by …

The first images have arrived online for animated spin-off, The Penguins Of Madagascar , in which the flightless birds from the popular DreamWorks franchise take centre stage. The new images show off our pint-sized heroes in action, while also giving us a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, a wolf …

Josh Brolin is set to revive his professional relationship with the Coen brothers, with the star having been added to the cast for Hail, Caesar! Having previously collaborated with the brothers on No Country For Old Men and True Grit , Brolin has taken an undisclosed role in the new …

“Things are always worse the second time around,” Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) cautions our heroic pair of bumbling cops, Schmidt and Jenko (Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum), at the start of 22 Jump Street – a sequel to a remake of a TV show. He’s talking about his charges’ …

Ti West ( The Innkeepers ) makes horror films that burn slow and pay off big. This found-footage effort, however, is (comparatively) spritely and much more effective in build-up than denouement. Two “immersionist” journalists (AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg) accompany a photographer (Kentucker Audley) on a mission to save his sister …

Some fairly major casting news to bring you from the weekend, with Latino Review and Variety reporting that Josh Brolin has been cast as Marvel big bad, Thanos. Last seen in the post-credits sequence of The Avengers , we’ve known that Thanos has been on the horizon for some time, …

This collection of 10 rarely seen shorts curated by London’s Screen Archives does exactly what is says on the tin. The nuptials of the title prove a particular treat: the wartime ceremony at a Kingsbury church features not so much a blushing but a beaming bride, unrestrained snogging, and a …

Carrie Fisher has been talking about reprising her most famous role in Star Wars: Episode VII and admits that she and her original co-stars “all look a little melted”. While talking at the Hay Festival in Wales, she admitted that, 31 years after they all worked together on Return Of …