http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAagFuR_XIM
What you may need to know.
1. Director Lee Daniels’ last movie featured Nicole Kidman pissing on Zac Efron. How do you top that?
2. By casting Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan
3. with Jane Fonda as Nancy.
4. And giving Oprah her proper first acting role in fifteen years.
5. Serious Oscar contender and/or future camp classic.
6. Yes, this is a real movie.
Release Date: Winter
Watch here.
What you may need to know:
1. The World’s End reunites Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with director Edgar Wright.
2. It’s the third film in their Ice Cream trilogy, after Shaun Of The Dead (2004) and Hot Fuzz (2007).
3. It co-stars Paddy Considine – always a good idea.
4. Looks like a lot of fun.
Release Date: July
What you may need to know.
1. This trailer is definitely NSFW, and most other places. It’s rather gory.
2. Eli Roth is the dude who made Cabin Fever (2002) and the Hostel flicks. He also played The Bear Jew in Inglorious Basterds (2011). And made the trailer (but not the film) for Thanksgiving.
3. Roth produced and stars in this. He also has a new Netflix Series, Hemlock Grove, and produced the hilariously titled Last Exorcism Part 2 (2013). He’s moving into theme parks next.
4. Mass mayhem + splatter = box office gold.
5. If it’s this or The Impossible (2012), we’re going with the former.
Release Date: Summer
What you may need to know.
1. PONYDANCE! is a new Irish documentary, from Broadsheet faves Doris/Magee. Watch Doris/Magee’s Greatest Hits HERE.
2. It was produced for TG4’s Splanc! strand. TG4 rocks: it shows Breaking Bad and westerns on a Friday, and it makes Ros Na Run, possibly the most mental soap in history.
3. Ponydance are probably the coolest dance troupe in Ireland right now. Fact.
4. The second coolest dance troupe in Ireland are probably the Lords Of Strut – they’re in PONYDANCE! too.
5. It premieres at the Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival next month.
6. Declaration of interest: ‘Preposterous’, of this parish, once had a cameo in a Doris/Magee production. His finest hour.
Release Date: May 17th
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqIzkaBpOIg
What you may need to know:
1. Woah. Keanu Reeves directed a movie.
2. He knows kung-fu.
3. Keanu turns 50 next year.
4. He’s still talking about a third Bill & Ted movie.
5. His defining work of the 21st century so far is still Sad Keanu.
6. We love him.
Release Date: Possibly Never.
What you may need to know:
1. It’s written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, who won an Oscar for writing The Decendants (2011). The latter plays the Dean on Community.
2. It reunites Steve Carrell and Toni Colette, last seen together in Little Miss Sunshine (2006).
3. @ ’52 Sam Rockwell – always a good idea.
4. @ 1’12 Maya Rudolph – another good idea.
5. We do love a good coming of age movie.
Release Date: Summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j41qNcjDoc8
What you may need to know:
1. It’s hammer time!
2. Marvel Phase 2 is officially in full effect. Upcoming Marvel movies include Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014), Ant Man (2015) and (reportedly) Doctor Strange. We need a Ruffalo Hulk movie.
3. Thor 2 is directed by Game Of Thrones veteran Alan Taylor; years ago he did a delicious little indie called Palookaville (1995).
4. The baddie? One word: ECCLESTON!
5. Anthony ‘Please make payable to cash’ Hopkins: Phoning it in long distance since 1992.
6. One word: Excelsior!
Release Date: November
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X07xNrVd7DU
What you may need to know:
1. It’s Men In Black… With dead folks!
2. Ryan Reynolds needs a hit. He’s still covered in Green Lantern (2011) stink. Great Ted (2012) cameo, though.
3. Jeff Bridges has traded his dude schtick for his True Grit (2012) schtick (2012). That said, he can do whatever the hell he wants. He’s Jeff Bridges.
4. It’s directed by the guy who did Red (2010). Which we liked a lot.
5. It’s based on a comic by the guy who did Hellboy.
6. Prognosis: We feel like we’ve already seen it. There’s something strangely reassuring about that. Damn you, Hollywood.
Release Date: Summer
What you may need to know.
1. A Trailer Park first – a trailer for a play. What next?
2. Drum Belly is written by Michael Richard Dormer, the man of the moment thanks to his top performance in Good Vibrations (2013) – best Irish movie of the year, possibly the decade. He’s also in the new series of Game Of Thrones.
3. The testosterone heavy cast includes Declan Conlon, who just won the Irish Times Theatre Award, alongside Liam Carney, Phelim Drew and Karl Shiels.
4. Want to win two tickets to see it?
5. Care to pitch us your own Irish mob movie?
6. Call it Paddywhacked, and leave an outline below by MIDNIGHT tonight (Friday). Best pitch gets the tix.
Release Date: Now Playing
What you may need to know
1. This Is England (2006) director Shane Meadows followed the Stone Roses on the comeback trail last summer.
2. Complain about Ian Brown’s voice all you want, kids, that Phoenix Park gig was only ROCKING.
3. Sad old indie kids everywhere will be tearing up. Doesn’t take much, truth be told.
4. The world doesn’t really need a new Stone Roses album. They made one too many already.
5. There’s a live satellite premiere thing at Dublin’s Lighthouse and Cineworld cinemas on May 30.
Release Date: June 5
