Weekly Movie Review: Premium Rush, Savages, Brake, Bourne Legacy, Arthur Christmas

Premium Rush

In Manhattan, a bike messenger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop (Michael Shannon), who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.

Weekly Movie Review: Cosmopolis, Total Recall (2012), Ted

Cosmopolis

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager (Robert Pattinson) has his day devolve into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Movie Review

As a child, Abraham Lincoln becomes aware that vampires exist after one kills his mother. When he grows older, he is taught to fight them, vowing vengeance and battles to overthrow a plot to take over the United States.

Wreck-It Ralph Video Game Cameos and Villains

Looking for a list of all the cameos and villains of video game characters in Wreck-It Ralph? Well look no further.

Expendables 2 Orange Advert

James Buckley from The Inbetweeners

There is an Expendables 2 Orange advert in cinemas at the moment which features James Buckley, who plays Jay in The Inbetweeners, in it.

Life Of Pi Trailer

It's been teased at online, and finally we get a look at Ang Lee's upcoming movie based on the book of the same name, by Yann Martel.


Life of Pi is the story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.


I was a big fan of the book when it came out in 2001 and won the Man Booker Prize the following year.

Life of Pi has a UK release date of 21 December 2012. I'll be seeing that at Christmas then!

Does Batman Die In The Dark Knight Rises - Spoiler Alert

Does Batman die in The Dark Knight Rises? This seems to be the question on everyone's lips after David Letterman publicly declared that Batman was dead on his show last week. Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy may be over, but that does not mean someone else cannot pick up the mantle and continue the adventures.

Spoilers ahead - DO NOT read unless you have seen the Dark Knight Rises!

The Amazing Spider-Man - Movie Review

Peter Parker finds a clue that might help him understand why his parents disappeared when he was young. His path puts him on a collision course with Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former partner.

Frankenweenie - Trailer

Disney and Tim Burton show off some new footage of the stop-motion black & white 3D animation.

Frankenweenie is a story of a boy and his dog that transcends the borders of life and death after an accident takes Sparky the dog away from a young boy Victor. This is actually a remake of a short film Burton made in 1984. Looks promising.

Prometheus - Movie Review

In Prometheus, a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Taken 2 - Trailer

Liam Neeson is back in the sequel to the movie that made old men fighting cool again.

This time however the tables are turned as the family of the bad guys he killed in the first movie are out for revenge. His daughter has to help him out in this movie.

Dredd - Trailer

First footage for the 2000 A.D. Judge Dredd movie starring Karl Urban as the judge, jury and executioner himself.

The audio and video quality is poor - looks like it's ripped off TV - but it seems that Urban has captured Dredd's signature gravely voice quite well. I'm not going to comment on special effects until I see a better quality version of this and shall reserve judg(e)ment until then.

If you're wondering, the music in this Dredd trailer is Skream's remix of Le Roux's In For The Kill.

Storage 24 - Trailer

I do like Noel Clarke movies and I've been waiting for a trailer for this British horror sci-fi for a while now - somehow it sneaked past me a month or two ago.

A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, a couple who have recently broken up are at Storage 24 dividing up their possessions with some friends. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?

Resident Evil: Retribution - Trailer

Milla Jovovich is back again as Alice, in Capcom's big screen adaptation of the famous video game.

Loving the opening sequence of this, with everything all nice and serene in suburbia, and then it all goes tits up. Good to see Michelle Rodriguez back too. The CGI looks a bit over the top as usual. The monster looks a bit crap. Fingers crossed this is as good as the others.

Django Unchained - Trailer

First look at Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz.

I haven't really been keeping tabs on this as I don't believe Tarantino has done anything good since Pulp Fiction - with the exception of Inglorious Bastards - but I'm pleasantly surprised by this trailer. DiCaprio looks exceptional in his role as the bad guy, and there are going to be some classic one liners. "Gentlemen, you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention." At this rate, Christmas cannot come soon enough.

Wreck-It Ralph - Trailer

Disney showcase their upcoming animated movie starring John C. Reilly, Jane Lynch and Sarah Silverman.

Wreck-It Ralph is the bad guy character in a classic game called Fix-It Felix. Ralph longs to be a hero and brings havoc to his entire arcade after sneaking into a new first-person shooter game and unleashes a deadly enemy.

Bourne Legacy - Trailer

New, exciting footage of Jeremy Renner as Aaron Cross.

This new trailer of Bourne Legacy is looking amazing. Pretty sure "Hawkeye" Renner is going to do a good job as the new Bourne in the Treadstone project. Can't wait to see this.

Skyfall - Teaser Trailer

Daniel Craig is back as James Bond 007.

We get our first glimpses of what we can expect. Plenty of action. Dame Judie Dench is still in there there as M (or is she?). Javier Bardem is nicely silhouetted against flames as the villain. Great music too. Bond looks as hard as steel. Should be good!



Oh, and afterwards, there's a short clip added of the upcoming game, 007 Legends, featuring Moonraker in Episode 1, which looks pretty cool, if you're a gamer.

TRON: Uprising Preview - Beck's Beginning

Ok, so this is TV but it's movie related, to TRON and TRON: Legacy that is. Forget a trailer, this is a preview of TRON: Uprising, the new TV show based on the movie airing on Disney XD.

Gangster Squad - Trailer

Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, and Ryan Gosling star in this movie about a squad of cops in 1940s Los Angeles whose job it was to stop East Coast Mafiosos from setting up shop in their city.

Penn looks eerie with the face-make up and Gosling has a few scenes that are reminiscent of his work in Drive. Anyone else thing Brolin is starting to look a lot like Tommy Lee Jones?

Directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland). Also stars Michael Peña, Emma Stone, Robert Patrick and Nick Nolte.