Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced today with a field of  nine vying for Best Picture. Nominations are listed here on the Academy website, with Hugo taking the most. There were some surprises and a lot of vitriol as fan faves and dead certs were snubbed. Over on twitter where the news hits [...]

On Monday evening at a film premiere in central London, Jeremy Irons and Paul Bettany, two actors who have appeared in both independent films and summer blockbusters, admitted gracefully that the film they were currently promoting had been a low paid, low budget labour of love. Bettany spoke of his children and dog sleeping on [...]

On a top ten list of the worst pieces of news you can get, being told you’re the spitting image of Uday Hussein, son of Saddam, and that you have to pose as his double to fool would-be assassins would probably come somewhere near the top. Latif Yahia’s  contested life story describes the ups and [...]

The eagerly anticipated sequel to 2009′s Star Trek begins filming on Monday January 9th, and has added Brit actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Noel Clarke to its cast. Trek has met with various delays and uncertainty over whether director JJ Abrams would return, but filming is able to begin on Monday with Abrams at the helm, with [...]

With a bestselling original novel and smash-hit stage version behind it, Steven Spielberg’s take on this story of one boy and his horse and their experiences of WW1 could not be more highly anticipated. Opening with a swelling orchestra and chocolate-box shots of the British countryside, it is clear that we are meant to be [...]

Jean Pierre Jeunet’s modern classic Amelie is celebrating ten years since its release by making it to Blu-Ray through Momentum Pictures. The film was one of five contemporary classics which were released onto the new format in October. With Christmas just around the corner it might be the time to start dropping hints. Other films [...]

‘Looking after white babies is what I do’, says housemaid Aibileen (Viola Davis), the film starts with a promising voiceover that leaves the viewer unsuspecting of the engrossing, hilarious and witty scenes that lie ahead.  The Help is an interesting title that immediately suggests despair, anguish but also a resolution. Based on the novel of the [...]

In his second feature writer/director Dwayne Buckle brings us cyborgs, action and moral ambiguity. A group of scientists are involved in a race to develop a cyborg, their project being  a hybrid human. Starring Raw Leiba of Conan the Barbarian, Cybornetix is released in 2012. EOS : When did you first start getting into filmmaking? [...]

Recently a study by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies suggested that smoking in films could significantly increase the chances of impressionable young people taking up the habit themselves. The recommendation in the report that films featuring smoking should be automatically rated 18 would have given that rating to Disney’s 101 Dalmations, Grease and [...]

The 2011 Student Film Festival is now open for submissions and will take place from the 3rd to the 5th of February 2011. The Student Film Festival was co-founded by Naqisa Silva, a film student of the London school of the arts; Umar Khan, a graduate in the Communications and Media from Brunel University; and [...]

You know you’re watching an indie film when it starts with a deep and meaningful monologue by apubescent teenager – not forgetting the Belle & Sebastian-inspired soundtrack and sunspots overthe New York landscape. But, add in adorably quirky characters (namely Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’s Freddie Highmore) and a handful of laugh-out-loud moments and it’s [...]

Entering into its 24th year, the well-known Singapore International Film Festival returns this year from 15 to 25 September with a new slate of programming relating to local and international film culture. A wide variety of film movies, documentaries and animations will be screened during the two-week event. In fact, this year, there has been [...]

Spare a thought for JJ Abrams. When he took on the Star Trek reboot he inherited not only one of the most loved and obsessed over franchises in TV history but became responsible for delivering something that fans had clamoured for for over 30 years – more stories in the Original Series Universe. Star Trek [...]

New channel Epix chose Comic-Con to launch the William Shatner documentary The Captains in which he interviews all previous captains of the starship Enterprise. The panel was moderated by Kevin Smith and fetaured Shatner along with Deep Space 9‘s Avery Brooks and a surprise appearance by Enterprise‘s Scott Bakula. The film premiered last night on [...]

11th July, the last day of Screen Singapore, began ominously enough with an early morning rainstorm. Dark clouds continued to threaten throughout the entire day. Fortunately, the wet weather gods held back so that the glitziest red carpet event of the week – the Asia-Pacific premiere of Hollywood movie Larry Crowne – could go on. [...]