Transamerica was released in 2005 to general critical acclaim. Felicity Huffman is outstanding as Bree, a transgender woman who discovers she has a son from a one night stand nearly twenty years earlier, implied as her only real sexual experience as a male youth. Bree bails her son out of jail and finds an insecure youth, desperate to be re-united with his father and whose mother commited suicide years earlier. Toby has been abused by his stepfather, earned money through prostitution, has a drug problem and is wary of anyone who seeks to help him, as Bree does by coming to his rescue in New York.
And it’s looking very cool. Typical Michael Bay fashion, there’s a lot of nice explosions and tasty effects, but best of all, there’s that vintage Transforming noise from the cartoon. Which made me wish I had Autobots bedsheets again. However, why aren’t any of the Transformers talking? Has the recent lip-gate scandal encouraged Bay to write in some robot vow of silence?
Earlier, we received an excited press packet from Paramount, telling us that Jerry Seinfeld had unexpectedly leaped off a hotel in Cannes dressed as a bumblebee. This was no flamboyant suicide attempt, but a promotional stunt for Dreamworks’ new animated flick, Bee Movie, written and starring the comic turned costumed lunatic. There’s been a lot of buzz around this movie (that was unintentional, really) and now the full trailer has gone online. Let’s hope this is a Shrek not a Shark Tale. And if you haven’t already seen the hilarious teaser trailers, check them out here.
The trailer for this year’s Cannes opener has gone online. Kar Wai Wong’s first English speaking film stars singer Norah Jones as a woman who takes a soul-searching trip across America and meets lots of interesting characters including Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Tim Roth and David Strathairn. There’s huge interest in this film over at the Cannes festival, and unfortunately, the trailer is nice but unyielding, so don’t expect to get too excited.
Variety are reporting that the two titans will reteam for cop thriller, Righteous Kill. The film will see the two starring as a pair of detectives hot on the trail of a presumably nasty serial killer. And no, despite the title, it was never a Steven Seagal project.
Exciting! Just imagine the hilarious buddy banter the two will have. It’ll be like a verbal tennis match of supreme cynic hilarity, acted with all the gusto of a gaggle of stampeding steamrollers (and the simile award goes to…)
The film will begin shooting on August 6 and is being directed by Jon Avnet, with Inside Man scribe Russell Gerwitz penning the script.
We love Jason Bateman here at the ATTIC. The untimely demise of Arrested Development brought many a tearful moment. But thankfully, after a recent stream of small roles, he’s finally cracking the big screen. Again (let’s not forget Teen Wolf Too). And now he’s reteaming with Smokin’ Aces man Joe Carnahan for The Remarkable Fellows.
Bateman came up with the idea for the film, in which two brothers take over the family ‘revenge’ business, while on the set for Smokin’ Aces.
“The revenge scenario is dependent on the intricacy of the plot,†Bateman told Variety. “If the president of a major bank was sleeping with the French ambassador’s wife, the banker would call these guys.” Sounds good to us.
The old British horror studio which last drew a scream way back in the 70s has been re-opened by a Dutch producer, John de Mol.
The old Hammer horror films are fondly remembered by fans and they made stars of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as Van Helsing and Dracula respectively. They also brought to life countless other classic horror stories like The Mummy, The Wolf-Man and Frankenstein’s Monster.
The Hammer label could breathe a bit of forgotten class into modern day horror flicks, which are perhaps bordering a bit close to gratuitous violence and sex due to Eli Roth and the new wave or gorenography. Not that there’s anything wrong with violence and sex, of course. (I hope you’re not reading this, God)
MTV are reporting that the Cage-inator will play the moblord in a prequel to Brian de Palma’sThe Untouchables.  This sounds like good news, except that it’s called The Untouchables: Capone Rising. That’s a rubbish title really. May aswell call it The Untouchables: Drink Justice. Or Capone: Zero Hour. Our scepticism-ometer is off the charts!
But is it a case of too little too late for the man who had it all and then threw it away on a film starring his wife, which we don’t like to talk about here? The new film, titled RocknRolla, follows a Russian mobster who orchestrates a crooked land deal and puts millions of dollars up for grabs, attracting all of London’s criminal underworld. Could be a return to form for the Lock Stock director.
Zombie movies are a funny thing. Since their inception at the hands of George A (Zombie God) Romero, the large majority of modern living dead flicks have been predictable takes on a tried and tested formula. The dead rise/a virus is released/a spell is cast, then the plague spreads and soon there’s a mass of slow-moving rotting corpses that the B-list cast must deal with.
By Tom Fitzpatrick
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The old British horror studio which last drew a scream way back in the 70s has been re-opened by a Dutch producer, 
MTV are reporting that the Cage-inator will play the moblord in a prequel to 
But is it a case of too little too late for the man who had it all and then threw it away on a film starring his wife, which we don’t like to talk about here? The new film, titled RocknRolla, follows a Russian mobster who orchestrates a crooked land deal and puts millions of dollars up for grabs, attracting all of London’s criminal underworld. Could be a return to form for 
