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January 11, 2013 · 2:17 pm

Film Friday: Movie 43

So. This is how it usually goes. I hear about a film. Watch the trailer. I hate it and subsequently slag it off, compare it to other, better films like it and suggest you go and see something else. WELL, this Friday, my friends, is different because I’ve found Movie 43.

It may not have a catchy or descriptive title, but the film itself looks pretty good from the 2 minute 32 seconds I’ve seen of it via the trailer; which is a feat in itself when you think about oh, say, The Oranges’ trailer, which was supposed to actually make people want to spend £8 on going to see it but in reality was painful.

They’re billing Movie 43 as the ‘”most outrageous comedy ever made”, starring “some of the biggest names in Hollywood”, which I don’t disagree with at all.

It has about a million [25-ish] of these “biggest names in Hollywood” in it, including Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Chloe Moretz, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Richard Gere, Kristen Bell and Justin Long and the guy from Saturday Night Live and Stifler and….. well, a lot of people. Stephen Merchant also pops up which is a pleasant surprise. But don’t be put off by all the ‘big names’; it looks nothing like Valentine’s Day and I can’t see Rachel Berry anywhere near the thing.

The only issue I have with the film so far is that I couldn’t spot Uma in the trailer, but maybe I wasn’t concentrating. That’s it. Really. Let’s hope Gerard Butler doesn’t feature in it too much and ruin it with his cray accent.

Want to see what I’m on about? Well you’ll have to visit the official trailer page for Movie 43 as it’s been kicked off YouTube by The Man.

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July 30, 2012 · 9:22 am

Gangster Squad release pushed back

Film’s release date pushed back

Warner Brothers has delayed the release of upcoming picture, Gangster Squad – which features a shoot-out scene in a movie theatre – following the Batman cinema massacre in Aurora, Colorado last week.

The mob thriller, set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and 50s and starring Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn, will now hit theatres on 11 January 2013, rather than debuting on 7 September as originally planned.

The Studio is reportedly still deciding whether to edit or delete the scene, in which mobsters burst through the screen, opening fire on cinema-goers.

The decision was made after a lone gunman shot and killed 12 people on 20 July during a midnight showing of the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises; another Warner Bros. release.

The movie’s climactic cinema-shoot-out ending could be seen in Gangster Squad’s original trailer, which has now been pulled by the studios.

This isn’t the first time the film has had its release date changed, with the picture originally set for release in October 2012.

Related: Film Friday: Gangster Squad

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May 11, 2012 · 3:34 pm

Film Friday (again): Gangster Squad

Yes, yes I know I’ve already done a Film Friday. But I want to do another one. Mainly because this one involves Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, together, in the same film, again.

Ok, enough’s enough. So, Gangster Squad. If you stalk the Daily Mail’s Showbiz page on a daily basis like yours truly, then you will most probably have seen some of the stills that go along with this particular film already – think Gosling in long coats and a hat, like a blonde, less affair-prone Don Draper.

You may also have an inkling about the plot, but for the rest of you who don’t know, the official synopsis states that Gangster Squad is set in Los Angeles in 1949 and follows “ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen”, played by Sean Penn. That’s right, there are other people in the film. Did you think it’d all be brooding Ryan? Jeez:

“Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and – if he has his way – every wire bet placed west of Chicago.

“And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.”

Take a cheeky look at the first trailer and see what you think – don’t be put off by Penn, just try and look past him: