If you've been lying awake at night, hopin' and prayin' that for some reason you'll get to see a bunch of Lincoln clips before the movie hits theatres on November 16th, then today's your lucky day, patriot: three clips for the upcoming Steven Spielberg biopic have been unveiled online for your viewin' pleasure. Notice that we've put an apostrophe at the end of a few words in this article so far: that's to get you used to the period setting of the movie.
If you're the Walt Disney company and you need to cast Walt Disney for an upcoming Walt Disney-based film, you can't get somebody who associates as a sexual deviant or a pimp or an asshole - you need an actor who comes over pure and inherently good-willed, somebody that the world already likes. Because your company's colossal reputation is built around one man's ideology, isn't it? That's why we say sorry, Gary Oldman, but no Walt Disney for you. Tom Hanks, on the other hand... well, perfect.
Ever since that bearded billionaire went ahead and sold his company to Disney for $4.05 billion, the internet has been flooded with stories speculating wildly on who exactly might get to take the reigns for a new trilogy of Star Wars flicks in 2015. Well, there's already been reports that Matthew Vaughn is the man for the job, but you can't trust anything that these internet websites say, can you? Except this one, of course. Probably.
Product placement is an essential part of the movie business. If you want to make a watch cool, you put it in a movie and give it to James Bond. If you want your laptop to sell more units, make it the hacker's choice of computer in your picture. And if you want your alcoholic beverage to be enjoyed responsibly, you give it to Denzel Washington's character in Flight. Um, wait. No. That last one doesn't work.
Now that they've got Mickey's paws clenched firmly around Pixar, Marvel and LucasFilm, Disney are apparently looking to add Hasbro to their ever-expanding collection of money-making properties. If the deals goes through, you can add movies like Transformers and G.I. Joe to a list that already includes some of the world's hottest franchises. This is the dream that Walt Disney always envisioned, people: one corporation to rule them all.
Elijah Wood - that friendly looking-chap who once starred as the sensitive ring-bearing hobbit Frodo in The Lord of the Rings movies and talks to dogs on FX - has a bit of a thing for psychopaths, apparently. Remember his absurd turn as the mentally-deranged cannibal Kevin in Sin City? And now there's this, the trailer for Maniac, which once again puts Wood front and centre as an absolute madman. Seriously, check it out below.
Although Skyfall has been lauded as the best Bond film in a long, long time, a few fans were somewhat disheartened to find that the iconic gun barrel sequence - which usually precedes the opening stunts and credits sequence - was missing again.
If there's one thing that Superman megavillian General Zod is renowened for, it's his super-breath ability. Oh, and his iconic catchphrase, of course: "Kneel before Zod." When you're a proper bad guy and you take your duties seriously, having people kneel before you is absolutely the ultimate way to prove your worth. It's so bloody degrading.
Do you like adorable things that run at a convenient length of precisely 6 minutes and 57 seconds? You do? Then check out the brilliant Pixar short La Luna, which has been made available to watch online for your viewing pleasure (and can be seen below).
White House Down a title that fires up the imagination in a very specific way: explosions, one-liners, bullet holes ripping through the Oval Office. And, then, of course, that key moment when the protagonist (trapped inside the building, of course) deadpans over the radio: "White House Down."
