Films like Guy Ritchie's Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake represent a very particular kind of British crime drama. They're modern, they're slick, they have memorable characters, and feature tons of twists and turns in the plot. Eran Creevy's Welcome to the Punch looks very much like that. Produced by…
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If you've hungered for a crime film with the particular flavor that the UK can provide, Welcome to the Punch might be your movie. From writer/director Eran Creevy (Shifty), the film casts James McAvoy and Mark Strong as a cop and criminal at odds with one another. Strong is the untouchable underworld figure, and McAvoy…
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Gossip Girl actor Penn Badgley has been tapped to star as Jeff Buckley in a new biopic about the singer-songwriter. No, not that one -- the other one. In true Hollywood fashion, there are currently two Buckley-based projects in the works: the one Jake Scott's making with Buckley's mother Mary Guibert as executive producer, and…
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There's a reason this article is illustrated with a ten-year old image of Nicole Kidman in The Others: she's not quite a stranger to making low-budget chillers, and now she seems to be tapped for a new one. Saw and Insidious director James Wan is putting together a movie called Spectre, and a throwaway mention…
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One of the best rising stars of the moment is certainly James McAvoy, who, like his X-Men: First Class co-star Michael Fassbender, seems right at home in a film of just about any scale, and in stories as diverse as Atonement, Wanted and The Conspirator. If he's in a movie, chances are we want to…
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