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Kingsman: The Secret Service – Still Violent And Crass But More Silly Than Cynical
Reviewed by Jeb D. Inexplicably, Jason Flemyng is not in this film. Kingsman: The Secret Service is the second Mark Millar comic adaptation from director Matthew Vaughn and co-writer Jane Goldman As he did with Kick-Ass, Vaughn has taken a Millar comic that was violent, crass, and cynical, and turned it into a film that is violent,[...]
PCH @ The Movies – Love Is Strange With Ira Sachs!
By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHAtTheMoviesEpisode4.mp3] With Ira Sachs, director of Love Is Strange … After my most recent film-based podcast with Sarah Snook to discuss her role in the mind-bending sci-fi thriller Predestination (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with Ira Sachs, director, producer and co-writer of the wonderfully touching new film, Love Is[...]
A Look At The VFX For Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
Emotive themes of family, compassion and betrayal are carried by a cast of fully CG apes who deliver intelligent and emotional performances as believable as their human counterparts. See how Weta Digital's on-set performance capture helped artists bring the amazing performances the actors delivered on the film set through to the digital characters in the finished[...]
X-Men Days Of Future Past – How It Should Have Ended
The How It Should Have Ended crew have set their sites on the latest X-Men film, Days of Future Past and they have focused on a specific point that a lot of people had been asking… why exactly didn't they take Quicksilver to Paris with them? But they also wonder, why didn't they send Wolverine[...]
Enormous Comic To Be Adapted As A Television Event Series
Created by Tim Daniel and Mehdi Cheggour, Enormous is about Humans trying to survive in a world that was already struggling from a planetary resource crisis when an ecological cataclysm creates massive beasts that put humanities existence in jeopardy. The property also spawned a live-action short web film by Machinima by written by André Øvredal and directed by BenDavid[...]
Guillermo del Toro Gets Extra Creepy In Crimson Peak
The film is written by del Toro & Matthew Robbins and stars Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Hunnam and Jim Beaver. In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider.  Trying to escape the ghosts of[...]
Reese Witherspoon To Protect Sofia Vergara In Hot Pursuit
Female lead comedies are becoming more and more common, but finding one without Melissa McCarthy is rare… here we have a trailer for the new film Hot Pursuit starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and New Line Cinema comes the comedy Hot Pursuit, starring Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line, Wild)[...]
Regression – A New Dark Thriller From Alejandro Amenábar
Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson lead a new thriller from Academy Award-winning director Alejandro Amenábar called Regression. Amenábar, who won for The Sea Inside (2004), is doing his first English language film since winning the Oscar… he also wrote the new film Also appearing in the film is Watson's former Harry Potter co-star David Thewlis. Regression is set[...]
Everything Wrong With Goldfinger…
Though the movie came out over 50 years ago, Cinemasins has decided to do their Everything Wrong With… magic on one of the best James Bond films ever, Goldfinger Which seems appropriate with the 24th Bond film being shot right now Though the debate on who is the best James Bond will probably wage on[...]
PCH @ The Movies –  Sarah Snook Of Predestination Plus Clip!
By Chris Thompson Following on from my last film-based podcast with Charlie Lyne to discuss Beyond Clueless (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with Sarah Snook, rising star of the hot new sci-fi thriller Predestination. Written and directed by The Spierig Brothers, Predestination chronicles "the life of a time-traveling Temporal Agent[...]