Jake Gyllenhaal is a magnetic onscreen force; everything else melts into the background during his close-ups. His ‘look’ has a beautiful sadness that lends its self to disaffected, slightly unhinged characters. He tends to pick subversive films where the disaffected and the unhinged are the heroes because the supposedly upstanding members of society running the system
The dystopian futures that work the best are those born out of our own present-day reality. We all have experiences of state interference, exploitative corporations too big for governance or a new technology with drawbacks that outstrip innovation. Wireless earphones anyone? Movies give us the opportunity to explore the issues facing our world from a
Nate Parker wrote, directed and stars as the lead character in the slave uprising historical drama The Birth of a Nation. It recounts the little known events of 1831 in Virginia when Nat Turner, a slave and preacher, led a two-day rebellion against white masters and their enforcers which ended in a massacre. Parker based the screenplay
Watch the trailer for the forthcoming drama Patriot’s Day starring Mark Walhberg and based on the events following the Boston Marathon bombing. The movie recounts the events following the terrorist attacks of April 15, 2013 when two pressure cooker bombs exploded 12 seconds apart near the finish line. Peter Berg directs Mark Wahlberg as Police Sergeant Tommy
With the release of Star Trek Beyond on DVD and Blu-ray not too far off Yahoo Movies have published a cool gag reel from the hit flick. The reel features Simon Pegg cracking a joke about size, Chris Pine doing a full Shatner, trouble with the turbolift and some very weird noises from Karl Urban as Bones
Kevin Costner is one of the all-time great American actors. His style of acting is timeless in the eyes of his fans but he has fallen out of favour with critics in recent years, leaving him criminally under-cast . Costner tends to play clear-cut heroes seeking justice, or reluctant heroes overcoming their personal flaws to make good. He has
Filmmakers have often used cars to give their films some added box-office appeal. In fact, in some cases a film is even based around a car. Sometimes the car is the star, sometimes the hero, other times the villain. Here are our 10 best movie cars of all time. 1Eleanor from Gone in Sixty Seconds The iconic Ford
It is that time of year again, the leaves are falling, there is a chill in the air and Halloween is fast approaching. Witches, of course, are the epitome of Halloween. Some movie witches are friendly and helpful, others are naughty and mischievous, and a few are just plain evil. So, in readiness for the
There’s no month scarier than October — but you don’t have to wait till Halloween to get your scares, as there’s great new selection of horror movies hitting theaters and Netflix. There are a seven major horror movies being released on the big screen, and if you’re too scared to go outside Netflix is also adding
It’s that time of the week again when parents are off and children need entertaining — so here’s a list of the best kids movies in theaters this weekend. The movies are ordered with the most recently released first. Check out the trailers and read the short descriptions for some inspiration of what you and your