Pee Wee Is Going To Have Another Big Adventure

Pee-Wee Herman will be making a return to the big 'ol silver screen next year in 'Pee-wee's Playhouse'.

Whilst you may be repulsed by the prospect of another big adventure, this film will be produced by Judd Apatow of Anchorman and Superbad fame.

Don't go dissing this quite yet!

Ghostbusters 3

I know its been rumoured for ages that a third Ghostbusters film may be happening but its now been confirmed true by Dan Aykroyd!

Shooting starts this autumn, Judd Apatow is apparently directing it.

Awesome!?

Robert Downey Jr 'to play Holmes'

Robert Downey Jr is in final negotiations to play Sherlock Holmes in director Guy Ritchie's movie about the crime fighter, according to a report.

The Iron Man star was introduced to the project through his wife, who works for one of the film's producers, The Hollywood Reporter says.

The film will rival a Columbia Pictures Sherlock Holmes comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen in the lead role.

Ritchie's Holmes will be less stuffy than previous screen incarnations.

Downey Jr's interest in the project was sparked when he visited producer Joel Silver's Warner-based offices where he was shown Ritchie's version of Holmes.

The film takes its cue from a forthcoming comic book which gives a new slant to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic character, who is portrayed as more adventurous.

Currently given the working title Sherlock Holmes, the film will begin shooting in the autumn for a October 2009 release, according to Warner Bros.

The Columbia Pictures film, meanwhile, also has Will Ferrell on board as Holmes' sidekick Dr Watson.

The 40-year-old Virgin director Judd Apatow is producing the movie, but no director has been announced yet.

* Pinched from BBC Entertainment News, 10/07/2008

Film Update

The weekend was completely water-logged so I spent most of my time at the cinema watching the following.


No Country For Old Men; This film definitely had quite a few classic moments but ended too suddenly with what I thought, the main story unfinished. I wouldn't say it was an awful film, up until the ending I was really getting into it but just wish the main story had an outcome.

Not one of my most favourite Coen Brothers films although the critics are loving it at the moment and numerous Oscar nominations are being rumoured.


Alien Vs. Predator Requiem; This film is really stupid, no big surprise really although I was hoping it to at least look pretty. Big mistake! Most of the action scenes are filmed in the dark, really quickly with the camera right in the centre of things - its really hard to actually see whats happening.

The predator is on Earth to investigate what happened to a crashed Predator ship and track down the new 'Predalien' (the bastard Alien/Predator lovechild - the picture on the right). He does the necessary investigating then covers his tracks by destroying any evidence with this magic blue goo, dissolving big or small things instantly. Fair enough, he wants to be undetected until he gets spotted by a cop. The cop is quickly killed, skinned and hung from a tree for everyone to see! The predator then continues investigating, using the magic blue goo so not to get spotted. Dumb ass!

The directors give the impression that they watched all the Alien/Predator movies back to back several times whilst making notes of all the key scenes. Although thats not a stupid idea, the directors then recreate all of these scenes unnecessarily rather than adding their own interpretation to the series. It feels like a really bad homage to the previous films because of this.


Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story; This film is hilarious if you've watched and enjoyed the Johnny Cash film 'Walk The Line' and other biopics like the Ray Charles film 'Ray'.

Co written by Judd Apatow of Anchorman and Superbad fame this has a very familiar sense of humour added with some really catchy tunes, recreating quite an authentic sound.


Sweeney Todd; I was very hesitant about watching this after hearing it was a musical but I'm pleased to say it was completely brilliant. The songs seem pretty good, not that I'm a connoisseur of musicals or anything! Johnny Depp and the rest of the cast are superb and Tim Burton has excelled himself with the direction. The gritty streets of old London never looked so good.

The gore or rather the ketchup coloured blood splattering's spray violently across the screen, this hasn't been toned down to the suite the average middle-aged musical loving woman and I salute Mr.Burton for keeping it an adult film.

Superbad (2007)

Ok, heres a quick review for Superbad. Its pretty much how I expected it to be which is no bad thing. Its really crude in parts and is almost 100% about sex but its still got the charm of The 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up thanks to having a pretty much identical cast/crew (that'll be Judd Apatow's comedy gang).

The film is totally packed with tonnes of funny moments but my favourite scenes involve the two cops (Seth Rogen & Bill Hader) with the character McLovin/Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse).

Anyway, its a great little movie. Probably best seen with a bunch of male friends as most females will likely to be offended by the majority of it. He he!

Films out on the 14th of September (UK)

Well, last weeks cinema releases were nothing to talk about but by the end of this coming week things should hopefully change with a couple of new movies.

The first is 'Superbad'. Yeah, it sounds awful but the trailer looks really good. This is a comedy about a group of friends in the final few weeks of school getting into all sorts of trouble before leaving for college. It's co-written by Seth Rogen, the lead guy from Knocked Up who's really making a name for himself now (he also plays one of the cop's in the trailer). The film also features Michael Cera a.k.a George Michael Bluth from the excellent 'Arrested Development' series so I'll spouting out loads of A.D quotes throughout (to the annoyance of anyone sitting around me, ha ha!).



The second is 'Shoot Em Up'. Yeah yeah yeah!!! Gunfights, car chases, Monica Bellucci still looking hot... that'll do me! I don't really know much about this film but I've heard there's not much of a real story although it is great fun to watch full with over the top action. The excellent Clive Owen's has the lead with Paul Giamatti taking the strange role of 'BAD GUY'. Giamatti usually plays good guys or minor supporting roles so I'll be interested to see how he handles it. The film itself looks like a cross between a John Woo film and some random 80's action movie. Neither is a bad thing in my book!