I have complete faith in Rob Marshall's ability to destroy the Disney cash cow that is the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise but I've gotta say: This is truly inspired casting. Ian McShane as Blackbeard. The only question is...

Do not mess with Sam Ransom. He may only be ten years old but he'll take you down. If the martial arts skills don't do it and the shotgun sticks he'll just breathe fire on you. Then he'll knock...

Japan had a rather good year at this year's Berlin Film Festival with titles scattered throughout all programs.  Turning up in the youth-oriented section was Koji Masunari's Welcome To The Space Show, a family friendly sci-fi adventure that reunited...

Vincenzo Natali is a busy man in the post-Splice world ... High Rise is still in the works, I'm hearing rumblings of a few other projects and now Natali has been attached to direct the film version of kids'...

Ick. Just ick....

While I've been enjoying the look of Tim Burton's upcoming Alice In Wonderland as bits and pieces have trickled out in stills and trailers I've also been very much aware that we have not yet been allowed to see...

The nameless planet. A never-ending wasteland dominated by bizarre trash formations, dust and rock. But this desert of junk and toxic waste is not lifeless at all. Out of the scattered remains of a long forgotten culture crawl the...

Fresh into production, Edgar Wright cohort Joe Cornish's feature debut Attack The Block is surely one of the more anticipated titles coming out of the UK in 2010.  Details have been scarce so far but we've got the first...

Bank on this: If the proposed new feature from iconic animators The Brothers Quay gets the green light to move ahead it will be very strange indeed.The proposed film is a homage and adaptation of Bruno Schulz s novella:...

Legendary animator Jan Svankmajer shows no signs of slowing down. In production now for a 2010 release is his latest feature Surviving Life [Theory and Practice], which sounds every bit as odd as you'd expect from the master.Eugene leads...