Massive Amazing Spider-Man 2 spoiler revealed?

Massive Amazing Spider-Man 2 spoiler revealed?

Has there been a reveal of a massive Amazing Spider-Man 2 spoiler?

Entertainment Weekly seems to think so.

In their latest piece from the Amazing Spider-Man 2 there are some spooky parallels between a key plot point with Emma Stone's Gwen Stacey and Spidey.

The picture's revealed below - but for the full details you'll have to check out the Entertainment Weekly story

Brand new Man of Steel trailer

Brand new Man of Steel trailer

There's a brand new Man of Steel trailer here with Henry Cavill.



From Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures comes "Man of Steel", starring Henry Cavill, directed by Zach Snyder. The film also stars Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Russell Crowe, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Henry Lennix, Christopher Meloni and Laurence Fishburne.

Here's the latest Man of Steel trailer....a Viral video from Zod...

 
There are also some brand new Man of Steel images out there too, courtesy of the preview on Entertainment Weekly. Including a first proper look at Michael Shannon as Zod. 

There's a brand New Man of Steel image from Zack Snyder due later this year.

It shows Henry Cavill as Superman...

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger: PS3 Review

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger: PS3 Review

Platform: PS3 - via PSN
Released by UBISOFT

Time to saddle up, gunslinger, with this new PSN title from the Call of Juarez series, the fourth such title.

In it you take on the role of Silas Greaves, a rooting, tooting bounty hunter who moseys into town one day with a series of stories and a thirst for beer in the local saloon. As Silas recounts his story to his spellbound audience, you play through the series of chapters in his life.

Most of those involve shoot-outs in the classic Western settings - and with some familiar faces from infamy.

Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is actually a fun little title to play and an unexpected treat on the gaming front.

Mixing duelling pistols and first person shooter is a great combination - and as you make your way through the game, you get the chance to upgrade your skills and with those, your shooting ability. It's fairly repetitive in terms of game play, and it can be frustrating that sometimes it takes more than a few shots to fell some of the bad guys. But it actually trains you to improve your shooting and aim to not only garner skill points but also quick kills. Add in the chance to avoid being shot by a quick time event and there's a lot to keep your fingers nimble on the draw.

There are also "nuggets of truth" collectibles scattered around the game for collection which each reveal a little something about the people involved. And there's a cartoony, almost pulpy feel to the gameplay and how it's presented, with it feeling a little akin to Robert Rodriguez's new trailer for Machete Kills in many ways.

Once story mode is done, there's an arcade shooter and a duels section to keep you playing on - and in particular the arcade section is very playable and addictive as you blast your way through levels of baddies and take on the other gunslingers.

In all honesty, I'd not been expecting much from Call of Juarez: Gunslinger but it delivers on so many fronts. It makes a downloadable title fun, extremely playable and enjoyable title which has put a bit of life into the overall seriousness of a lot of the first person shooters.

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The Way Way Back: Movie Review

The Way Way Back: Movie Review

Cast: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Sam Rockwell, Alison Janney, Liam James, AnnaSophia Robb, Amanda Peet
Directors: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash

In this latest from the studio who brought you Little Miss Sunshine and Juno, it's back to the old cliche of teenager coming of age.

Liam James stars as 14 year old Duncan, an awkward and inept kid who, as the film begins, is on his way to a summer beach home with his mum (Toni Collette), her new bully-boy boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell) and his daughter. It's a vacation he doesn't want and a family he's got no desire to be part of.

And when he meets neighbour garish drunkard Betty (a wonderful Alison Janney) it seals the deal for him - he's going to hate the summer no matter what happens.

But against the odds, Duncan strikes up a friendship with Sam Rockwell's wise-cracking water park owner Owen and begins to blossom under his tutelage and Duncan begins to find his voice in the world.

Coming of age movies are traditionally cliched and unoriginal - not The Way, Way Back. Despite handling material that's as old as the hills, The Way, Way Back is fresh, funny, dramatic when it needs to be and utterly charming.

It succeeds largely in part due to the smart, sassy script which is on offer - and the performances of the likes of Sam Rockwell and Alison Janney as well as Liam James as the awkward teen.

It's Rockwell's piece really though as he rocks out some comic monologues as he lounges around the idea of management of the washed out water park. He has charm and charisma aplenty in this character piece - and he's got some of the most unpredictably funny moments in the movie as he espouses dry and deadpan moments of wisdom to Duncan. The growing relationship between the pair as Duncan finds the father figure he craves instead of the hectoring and badgering of bully boy Trent shines throughout and feels natural and realistic.

But other performers in the piece also shine - Carell delivers a distinctly unlikeable turn as the newcomer to the family, whose borderline menace is always simmering in the background; Janney blazes an early trail in the movie before giving way to Rockwell and James deserves some credit as the teen blundering his way through growing up, discovering himself as well as the neighbouring girl (played by AnnaSophia Robb).

There's an undeniable charm to The Way, Way Back - it has an ease of originality and offers a new sideways take on the old "coming of age during one summer away from my normal life" movie that we've seen a million times before. Faxon and Rash have a way of wrong-footing you throughout and taking the path less travelled to deliver the moments that shine on the screen.

The Way Way Back is an unmissable film with comedic poignancy - it sings of fresh originality and proffers up a brilliant turn from Rockwell. I can't urge you enough to see this movie - it's already got a place on the best films of 2013 as far as I'm concerned and you should succumb to its immense charms immediately.

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First look at Tauriel

First look at Tauriel

Entertainment Weekly's scored a major scoop - a First look at the elf Tauriel.

The elf Tauriel played by Evangeline Lilly will appear in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Lilly's told Entertainment Weekly:

 “Tauriel is the head of the Elven Guard,” Lilly explains. “She’s a Sylvan Elf, which means she’s of a much lower order than the elves we all became acquainted with in The Lord of the Rings. She doesn’t hold the same kind of status that Arwen or Galadriel or Elrond or Legolas do — she’s much more lowly. She sort of goes against the social order of the elves a little bit.”

Tauriel isn’t only a fierce warrior; she has a softer side, too. “She will definitely have a love story,” Lilly says. “I can’t give away too much about it. It’s not a huge focus but it is there and it is important and it does drive Tauriel and her story and her actions.” Will that romance involve Orlando Bloom’s Legolas, by any chance? Lilly won’t say definitively one way or the other, but she does offer this much: “Tauriel’s relationship with Legolas is significant. They’ve known each other since they were children, and Legolas’ dad, [Elven king] Thranduil, has a soft spot for Tauriel and sees something very special in her. So if you grow up side by side, and your dad has a very special spot in his heart for this young woman who’s a fantastic warrior, I think it’s hard not to notice her.” She laughs. “That’s probably as much as I can say.”

Suspiria Live experience revealed

Suspiria Live experience revealed

NZIFF ANNOUNCES GOBLIN PLAYS SUSPIRIA LIVE AT THE CIVIC

Tickets on sale Thursday 13 June through Ticketek

“The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 92!”

Suspiria Tagline

The New Zealand International Film Festival today announced that Italian prog-rock legends ‘Goblin’ will perform their iconic score to Dario Argento’s horror film Suspiria on Friday evening 19 July at The Civic Theatre in Auckland.

A certified cult classic Suspiria tells the delirious tale of an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious dance academy in Germany, only to discover that it is controlled by a coven of witches.

"As far as I am concerned this is the most exciting Live Film Score event kiwi film lovers have ever had the chance to witness. Goblin’s scores for the Dario Argento’s films of the 70s and 80s became instant pop cultural high-points. In terms of the most memorable horror collaborations there is Bernard Herrmann’s dissonant violins screaming through Psycho, John Carpenter’s stabbing synth score for Halloween, John Williams’ brutal and relentless Jaws theme and what many feel is the greatest fusion of all; Goblin and their epic electronic masterpiece for Dario Argento's terrifying horror classic Suspiria. Their Melbourne show was called the "Greatest live show ever!" by critics that saw it. This is the show I have been waiting 30yrs to see." says Incredibly Strange programmer Ant Timpson.

A 1977 certified masterpiece the film proved to be a match made in hell for Argento’s exuberant visual style and the industrial un-nerviness of Goblin’s score. The band’s score for Suspiria was the second collaboration between Argento and Goblin and is considered, by many, to be a musical benchmark for horror film soundtracks.

“An eye-popping maelstrom of visual excess” – Ian Berriman, SFX Magazine

Goblin Plays Suspiria is a live cinema NZIFF event to be held on Friday 19 July 9.15pm at The Civic, Auckland for one screening only. Tickets for Goblin Plays Suspiria will go on sale from Thursday 13 June through Ticketek. Tickets for this special event will be $45 (adults) and $40 (concession) plus booking fee.  Tickets for all other Festival screenings will go on sale from Friday 28 June.

Suspiria is rated R 16 and contains violence.

NZIFF programmes will be available online and around town from June 25 in Auckland. For Festival updates visit www.nziff.co.nz and register to receive e-newsletters.

The Internship: Movie Review

The Internship: Movie Review

Cast: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rose Byrne, Max Minghella, Aasif Mandvhi
Director: Shawn Levy

Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn reunite after 2005 smash hit Wedding Crashers in this piece which is more squarely aimed at a wider audience.

This time the pair play Nick and Billy respectively, a pair of successful, gift of the gab watch salesmen who find their jobs gone after their company is shut down. So, with nowhere to go, Billy finds a chance for them to be part of an internship programme at Google.

But as they are by far the oldest people on the course, they stick out like a sore thumb - and when they're teamed up with the less successful rejects to fight it out in a mental "Hunger Games" quest for a job at Google, it looks like they're out of their league....

The Internship movie is a perfectly affable piece, which flounders on charting a course through predictable and safe waters without delivering too many laughs at all.

It just gets by on the charm, charisma and chemistry of its two leads but it offers nothing but pleasant life lessons as the two fish out of water, washed up ex-salesmen try to negotiate their internship at the corporate wonder that is Google. 

It's curiously flat though, proffering up only a few Lols here and there and most of them peddling the stereotypes and tropes you'd expect in a predictable piece like this. There's the inept older duo who have wordly skills and savvy where techno lets them down; the must-do-well Asian student; the aloof hipster teen boy and girl who are lacking social finesse but clearly should be together and the mentor who's an outcast at Google - it's the digital equivalent of The Breakfast Club. Throw into that mix a love interest in the form of Rose Byrne who's wrapped up in her work life and you've got all the ingredients of an after school special waiting to happen. A cameo from Will Ferrell brings a few laughs early on but they're soon gone.

And yet, with the riffing of the relationship between Billy and Nick (and consequently Vaughn and Wilson), there's maybe enough good will to propel you through the overlong inevitable mush that's on the way. It's a walking ad for corporate Google, with every available opportunity taken to peddle the wonders of their services, the hipster like nature of their workplace and the general happiness (or "Googliness" as it's called in the film) of working for the web giant.

There are a few messages about how the American Dream's changed for the youth today, how cynicism can be overcome, how we still have to learn from the older generation who go out there and get stuff done without the wonders of modern technology, that there's still a place for teamwork within the corporate mainframe and that life's lessons have to be learnt no matter what age you are. But it's all so warm, fuzzy and sentimental that ultimately it's ever so cloying and verging on the insufferable. 

Despite a few nods to geek culture and a sequence in a nightclub which brings a few laughs, The Internship movie is a schmaltzy and unchallenging solid feel-good "comedy" with an earnest heart but a lack of continual humour and without any real byte.

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