Weekly web round up

Lots of good movie related stuff on the web this week.   [Read more]

Hunger

The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners. In 1978, after a number of attacks on prisoners leaving their cells to “slop out”, the dispute escalated into the dirty protest, where prisoners refused to wash and covered the walls of their cells with excrement. In 1980 seven prisoners participated in the first hunger strike, which ended after 53 days. [Read more]

Gran Torino

Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbours to confront his own long-held prejudices. The people he once called his neighbours have all moved or passed away, replaced by Hmong immigrants, from Southeast Asia, he despises. Resentful of virtually everything and everyone he sees, Walt is just waiting out the rest of his life, until the night his teenage neighbour Thao tries to steal his prized ‘72 Gran Torino, under pressure from Hmong gang-bangers. But Walt stands in the way of both the heist and the gang, making him the reluctant hero of the neighbourhood-especially to Thao’s mother and older sister, Sue, who insist that Thao work for Walt as a way to make amends. Though he initially wants nothing to do with these people, Walt eventually gives in and puts the boy to work, setting into motion an unlikely friendship that will change both their lives. [Read more]

Notorious

NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of “The American Dream.” to take the world of rap music by storm. [Read more]

New The Boat That Rocked featurette

Empire has just posted a nice little feature for Richard Curtis’ latest film, The Boat That Rocked.  It features a few of the main cast and a couple of snippets from Mr Curtis himself.   [Read more]

Pride and Glory

A gritty and emotional portrait of the New York City Police Department, the film follows a multi-generational police family whose moral code is tested when possible corruption splits the family. Ray Tierney (Edward Norton), one of two sons on the force, is asked by his father and Police Chief Francis (Jon Voight) to investigate an incendiary case involving his older brother (Noah Emmerich) and brother-in-law (Colin Farrell). [Read more]

The weirdest and most fun trailer ever

Being a Mac user, and into films means I frequently visit the Apple trailers page.  Usually its full of the normal mainstream movies but every now and again they surprise you and today they certainly have by posting two really good looking trailers for films I hadn’t really heard much about before or had much interest in. [Read more]

10 Exciting Comic Book Adaptations Currently In Development

With the recent release of Watchmen we thought we’d have a little look at some other comic book adaptations that are currently in development and have got us very interested. [Read more]

Ghost Town

Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, who pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. [Read more]

Cass

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. [Read more]

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