How I Live Now tells the story of Daisy, a neurotic and rather high strung teenager who is sent by her father to the English countryside to stay with her British cousins for the summer. Quickly dismissive of her relatives, Daisy prefers to be left on her own. It is not until she gets to know her eldest cousin, Eddie, that she eventually lowers her guard and comes to see the English countryside as a wonderful place to inhabit.
The Best Man Holiday comes 14 years after its predecessor The Best Man arrived in theaters. For the sequel, the whole cast has returned to reprise their roles as the characters reunite for Christmas at Lance (Morris Chestnut) and Mia’s (Monica Calhoun) giant mansion. It's not long though before old rivalries and romances get re-awakened and threaten to derail the entire experience.
It has been a very busy year for actress Rachel McAdams. She started off by romancing Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder before playing a cutthroat advertising executive in Brian De Palma’s Passion. Now she's stepping into the role of an American living in England in Richard Curtis' About Time.
Bill Nighy proved to be just as amusing and charming in person as he is in his movies when he appeared at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles for the About Time press conference last week.
Together, Orci and Pritzker are big fans of Orson Scott Card’s Hugo and Nebula award winning book Ender’s Game and have spent years trying to make a movie out of it. Now, on November 1st, the film will finally debut on the silver screen.
He’s only 16 years old, but Asa Butterfield has already carved out a respectable acting career for himself. He received critical acclaim for his role as Bruno in The Boy with Striped Pyjamas, and he played the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. Now he has one of his biggest roles to date in Ender’s Game, Gavin Hood’s cinematic adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s beloved science fiction novel.
We always knew that Harrison Ford would return to space, right? With an all but confirmed appearance in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII and a starring role in this week's Ender's Game, it looks like the iconic movie star is hoping to get back to his sci-fi roots.
Three years ago Hailee Steinfeld gave an Oscar nominated performance in True Grit, but ever since then, we haven't heard much from the actress. Luckily, 2013 sees her returning in several new films, one of which is the upcoming Ender's Game, where she plays Petra Arkanian, one of many young children who is selected to attend Battle School where the future leader of the International Fleet is being sought. She eventually becomes friendly with the school’s most promising student, Ender Wiggin (played by Asa Butterfield), and together they help one another master the increasingly difficult war games that they are made to play.
Hellbenders is the latest film from writer/director J.T. Petty, who also directed The Burrowers and Mimic 3: Sentinel. It revolves around The Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints, a congregation of ministers from different faiths who live in a constant state of debauchery and sin. Why you ask? Well, there are some demons so terrible that no mortal man of God can successfully them drive back to hell, and that’s where these Hellbound Saints (or Hellbenders) come in. They are a group of highly trained exorcists whose constant state of debauchery has them more than ready to go to Hell at a moment’s notice, allowing them to take the terrible demons along with them so that they can face the damnation they deserve.
John Krokidas makes his feature film directorial debut with Kill Your Darlings, a biographical drama that looks at the lives of four famous poets (Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Lucien Caar and William Burroughs) and the formation of the beat movement, which they were at the forefront of.
