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Ewan McGregor wants to do Trainspotting sequel
EWAN McGregor has said that he would love to reprise his role as Mark Renton in Danny Boyle’s sequel to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting follow-up Porno.
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Jackie Stewart on his Polanski film’s Cannes return
OVER forty years ago a film by Roman Polanski captured Jackie Stewart on a Monaco Grand Prix weekend. That film has been reworked and will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, but for the former Formula 1 world champion, it brings back some painful memories.
‘Breathe In’ to open Edinburgh’s film festival
ACCLAIMED new American drama Breathe In has won the coveted opening night slot at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, organisers revealed today.
New Star Wars film could be shot in Scotland
TOURISM leaders have predicted another massive movie spin-off for the country if the next Stars Wars film is partly shot in Scotland.
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Brave creator slams Merida makeover as ‘atrocious’
THE creator of the Disney-Pixar adventure set in the Scottish Highlands has branded a controversial makeover for the main character Merida “atrocious.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio on playing Jay in The Great Gatsby
THERE’S always a certain amount of hysteria surrounding summer blockbusters but Baz Luhrmann’s new big-screen adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has surpassed all the usual hype.
DVD reviews: Les Miserables | Side By Side
BOMBASTIC, over-blown, over-long, needlessly convoluted, and full of simplistic characters, terrible performances and a constant, cochlea-cracking racket on the soundtrack, Les Misérables arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in all its baffling glory – like the musical equivalent of a Transformers movie.
Andrew Eaton-Lewis: The problem is Merida has been turned into an object
AS YOU may have heard, Merida from Brave has just become an official Disney princess, and had a makeover to celebrate.
Romain Duris on his new film, a ‘Rocky with typewriters’
Having swerved some English-speaking roles, French actor Romain Duris tells Siobhan Synnot why there’s no place like home when it comes to his film choices
Film review: The Stoker (15)
IT’S hard to define the films of Alexei Balabanov; he’s like an angry Aki Kaurismäki, or a more impassive Gaspar Noé.
Film review: The Liability (15)
LIKE the trade itself, movies about hit men work best when they are quick, capable and thoroughly bloody.
Borgen’s Pilou Asbaek on his Somalian pirate film
NOW a household name beyond his Danish homeland after appearing in political drama Borgen, Pilou Asbaek is swapping the corridors of power for the hardship of being held hostage by Somalian pirates
Matthew McConaughey on rebooting a Hollywood career at 43
THE Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool’s Gold, The Ghost of Girlfriends Past, Failure to Launch.
Star Trek: To boldly go from A to Z
As the latest Star Trek movie beams Kirk, Spock and co back onto British cinema screens, we look at some of the facts, figures and faces associated with five decades of the beloved TV and cinema science fiction franchise.
Brave’s Merida gets the Disney princess treatment
IT MAY be Brave but is it on target? The star of Disney’s Celtic fantasy Merida has had a glam makeover that has gone down poorly with fans as well as parents.
Jonathan Melville: When is a classic not a classic?
THERE was a time when the only way to see an old film was to wait for it to appear on TV or to buy the VHS. Today, even the biggest cinema chains are happy to show classics alongside the blockbusters.
JJ Abrams on controlling Star Wars and Star Trek
AS Star Trek Into Darkness beams into cinemas, director JJ Abrams - also the man helming Star Wars VII – tells Alistair Harkness what it’s like to be master of two universes
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Film review: Mud
BARELY a month seems to go by at the moment without Matthew McConaughey delivering a brilliant and surprising performance.
Arts blog: Hannibal taking bite out of cinema | Twitter plays
ALISTAIR Harkness finds further evidence that American TV is outperforming the US film industry, while Andrew Eaton-Lewis discusses the art of creating a drama in 140 characters.
Classic Bond posters to make up to £37k at auction Picture gallery
A SET of classic James Bond film posters is expected to fetch up to £37,000 at auction later this month.
Edinburgh gets new film and TV champions
A NEW body is to being set up to help attract film and TV productions to Edinburgh following criticism of cutbacks at the city’s main marketing body.
8 commentsPaddy Considine: ‘My brain told me to shut down’
Actor Paddy Considine has told how he was gripped by despair before doctors found out he was suffering from a rare condition that made it difficult for him to cope with light.
Interview: Geoffrey Rush on The Eye of the Storm
Geoffrey Rush’s new project sees him as a down-on-his-luck Australian movie star in a fraught melodrama. For the acclaimed actor who juggles blockbusters with arthouse projects, those days are long gone. Interview by Siobhan Synnot
DVD reviews: The Impossible| Billy Liar
A MISTAKENLY narrow perspective ruins what could have been an incredible true story of survival in The Impossible, a dramatisation of one family’s experiences of the devastating South Asian tsunami that killed 300,000 people on Boxing Day 2004.
Andrew Eaton-Lewis: In some respects American Psycho makes perfect sense as a musical
IS IT a good idea to make an all-singing, all-dancing stage version of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho?
Film review: Mud (12A)
I KNOW I’m not alone in saying that I’ve been enjoying Matthew McConaughey much more since he stopped appearing in mirthless romcoms and started subverting his son-of-Paul-Newman looks with roles in Magic Mike, Killer Joe and Bernie.
Film reviews: A Hijacking | White Elephant | Gangs of Wasseypur (Parts 1 and 2)
The rest of this week’s film releases, reviewed by Siobhan Synnot
The Great Gatsby kicks off Cannes Film Festival
There’s a delicious irony in Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby kicking off the star-studded celebrations at the world’s most glamorous film festival, writes Hannah McGill
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch on Star Trek
FROM playing a modern-day Sherlock Holmes to the villain of the new Star Trek movie, Benedict Cumberbatch isn’t afraid to boldly go where few have gone before.
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Film review: Star Trek Into Darkness
FOUR years ago JJ Abrams rescued Star Trek from the Neutral Zone with an amped- up reboot which managed to channel the original characters in ways that were funny, smart and sometimes even touching.
Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Cameo snub
IT is Quentin Tarantino’s favourite cinema, Sir Sean Connery opened its bar in 1963 and Orson Welles and Cary Grant have visited.
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Cameo cinema banned from Edinburgh Film Festival
Edinburgh’s Cameo cinema has been banned from the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF), after festival organisers said its 3D screen wasn’t up to standard.
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Jonathan Melville: May the fourth be with you on Star Wars day
SATURDAY is shaping up to be a big day for Star Wars fans around the globe as they celebrate a momentous date in the calendar.
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Film review: I’m so excited
PEDRO Almodóvar’s latest begins with a disclaimer that what we’re about to see is a fantasy and bears no relation to reality.
Film reviews: Dead Man Down | Chimpanzee | All Stars | 21 And Over
THIS American debut for Danish director Niels Arden Oplev (who made the soporific Swedish version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) is the cinematic equivalent of wading through sludge.
Ashley Jensen on new family film All Stars
ASHLEY Jensen is reflecting on a bizarre thought she had recently.
Fiona McCade: Driven to distraction by advert superheroes
I BELIEVE in Santa Claus. He’s a great guy. Everybody loves him and he brings pleasure to millions.
Brechin Lion King spoof stokes council fears
BRECHIN councillors have voiced concerns over an image that appears to mock the town - using characters from Disney film The Lion King.
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We Are Northern Lights film takes on blockbusters video
CROWD-SOURCED, low budget and edited down from over 300 hours of raw footage submitted by more than 1500 people across Scotland, We Are Northern Lights is set to take on the Hollywood big-hitters at the multiplex.
Catherine Zeta Jones undergoes bipolar treatment
HOLLYWOOD star Catherine Zeta Jones has checked into a facility for further treatment for her bipolar disorder.
DVD reviews: Life of Pi | The Great Gatsby (1974)
THERE’S no denying that Life of Pi is a marvel of modern filmmaking technology. Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yan Martel’s tale of an Indian boy adrift at sea with only a Bengal tiger for company is a reminder of how cinema can sometimes work wonders on material previously thought unfilmable.
Ezra Miller roused by the call of the wild
EZRA MILLER is sipping on a mug of tea and lighting a cigarette in a pub garden in London – worlds away from his trip to the North Pole at the start of April, during which he suffered severe frostbite and sickness and faced the possibility of death day after day.
Film review: I’m So Excited (15)
AFTER a series of noirish, moodier films, I’m So Excited will be popular among fans of Pedro Almodóvar’s brightly coloured farces seeking rampant camp, drug-taking, inappropriate sex and lip-synched routines to a Pointer Sisters’ song.
Pedro Almodóvar on his new film ‘I’m so Excited!’
Pedro Almodóvar was inspired by his rural childhood in the post-Franco era, yet he had to leave his family and village behind in order to make it as a director
Film reviews: In The Fog| Dead Man Down| The Eye Of The Storm| Robosapien
A roundup of the latest cinema releases
John Wayne ‘was set for Laurence of Arabia’
HIS name may be synonymous with westerns, but new research has revealed that John Wayne was once lined up to play the heroic British Army officer Lawrence of Arabia in the epic film of the same name.
DVD review: Life Of Pi
What is it? Ang Lee’s spectacular 3D movie of Yann Martel’s bestselling story about a young man trapped on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Film review: Iron Man 3
NOW, more than ever, we need a superhero: not someone with abs of steel and glutes of granite, but a sharp mind and a lateral wit. Oh do sit down Robert Downey Jr, we’re not talking about you. I mean the man doing the actual heavy lifting in Iron Man 3; writer-director, Shane Black.
Gwyneth Paltrow back again in Iron Man 3
GWYNETH Paltrow was recently hailed ‘most hated celebrity in Hollywood’, beating the likes of Anne Hathaway and Kristen Stewart to the dubious title.
Steve Coogan returns to screen in The Look of Love
AH-HA! It’s been almost 20 years since Steve Coogan first appeared on our TV screens as Alan Partridge, the tragi-comic sports correspondent on spoof news show, The Day Today.
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