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'Frozen' gets an intense trailer

Monday, September 6 2010, 13:40 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
If getting trapped on a chairlift for days on end isn't your idea of a fun time, then this trailer for Frozen will probably freak you out. A lot!

Kevin Zegers, Shawn Ashmore and Emma Bell play three skiers who get stranded on the malfunctioning machinery and face a teeth-chattering fight for survival.

Click 'play' to get a taste of Frozen, opening in the UK on September 24.



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A new trailer for 'Due Date' debuts

Monday, September 6 2010, 12:38 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
Below we have the international teaser trailer (yes, there's another "full" one coming!) for Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifianakis's Due Date.

It's directed by Todd Phillips of The Hangover fame so expect this manic-looking road movie to really bring the funny when it's out this November.

Press 'play' below to watch the trailer...



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'Runaways' exclusive: David Bowie makeup

Monday, September 6 2010, 10:32 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
It's taken its sweet time, but The Runaways will finally hit UK cinemas this Friday and we've got a cool little exclusive clip of Dakota Fanning from the music biopic.

This clip is chock-a-block with rock 'n' roll icons, by the way. "Where?" we hear you yell. Let us explain:-

  • Dakota Fanning is playing Cherie Currie, lead singer of '70s girl rockers The Runaways (obviously!)

  • She's applying Aladdin Sane-era David Bowie makeup prior to a performance of 'Lady Grinning Soul' at a school talent contest

  • Suzi Quatro's 'The Wild One' is playing in the background

  • Cherie's sister Marie Currie is played by Riley Keough, who just happen to be the granddaughter of Elvis Presley


Hit 'play' below to see our Runaways clip:



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Do you have a question for Joe Dante?

Friday, September 3 2010, 17:26 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
If you happened to have been born in the '80s, you'll almost certainly have encountered Joe Dante's movies at childhood trips to the cinema. His work includes the original Piranha, both Gremlins movies, Explorers and Innerspace, not to mention Small Soldiers and Looney Tunes: Back In Action.

On September 22 he'll be back on UK screens with 3D teen horror The Hole so, with that in mind, we thought we'd try something a bit different. At The Movies wants YOU to pose the questions for a special Twitter Q&A with the iconic '80s helmer.

Tweet us over your questions - to @dsatthemovies - and we'll pick a few, ask them to Joe then feed them back to you.

Perhaps you'd like to ask him about the much-loved Gremlins films? Or what drew him to make a 3D horror with The Hole? There were also a few whispers that he was going to make a Batman movie pre-Tim Burton? Send your questions over and make 'em good!

In the meantime, why not click 'play' below to watch the trailer for The Hole:



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A new 'Buried' trailer is unearthed

Friday, September 3 2010, 16:50 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
The international trailer for thriller Buried has been unearthed and we've got it below for you to have a look-see. Yep, it's that movie where Ryan Reynolds is trapped in a coffin for 90 minutes!

DS colleague Mayer Nissim - who has no particular affinity for coffins or being stuck in them - has seen the film and says it's "tense, tidy and has confidence in its claustrophobic convictions".



Buried is out in the UK on September 29.

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Three chilling clips from 'The Last Exorcism'

Friday, September 3 2010, 16:10 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
The Last Exorcism hits UK cinemas today and is looking to scare up a storm with horror fans. Gore maestro Eli Roth is the producer, but this is a very different type of chiller, building up suspense by using a documentary shooting style to tell the story of an evangelical minister and his final exorcism.

Click 'play' below to watch our three clips:

'Brother'



'Motel'



'Dresser'



> Q&A: Eli Roth and the 'Last Exorcism' gang

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Q&A: Riz Ahmed chats 'Four Lions'

Friday, September 3 2010, 14:57 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
Four Lions
Optimum Releasing
The UK's foremost satirist Chris Morris made his movie debut earlier this year with comedy Four Lions, about a group of inept terrorists planning an attack on London. It naturally courted controversy, perhaps overshadowing the fact that it's a piercingly funny and moving film. With the DVD and Blu-ray hitting shelves this week, we caught up with Riz to discuss all things Four Lions.

When Chris Morris approached you for this film was it an instant "yes"?
"On one level it is, from a gut instinct level it is. Chris Morris is a genius, super-intelligent, I knew him quite well at that point. Leading up to his offer of a role, we'd been meeting up every couple of months for about three years talking about everything and nothing, touching on the subject of what the script was about. I trusted him, knew he was a genius, thought he was hilarious and it was the perfect content for a script. I guess there's a little whisper in your head saying, 'Could this all go the wrong way?'. As soon as you read the script, there's really no question because it's just a very human comedy. Any preconceptions or anxieties people have about the nature of the comedy immediately evaporates once they watch the film."

Was it a bit frustrating having to defend the movie? The press seemed to be focusing on the controversial subject matter and overlooking the comedic and emotional elements of the film?
"You see journalists doing the job they're paid to do. I guess it's a no-brainer they're going to ask that question. You don't really need to do much spin doctorey maneuvers to diffuse it because you're just telling them it's not a comedy about terrorism, it's a comedy about terrorists. It's about four or five in particular who happen to be human beings... It's not the more boring, pompous, indulgently controversial film that maybe journalists want it to be. It's something more universal. It's not a film about politics, it's a film about plonkers."

Did you and the three other guys spend a lot of time together to bond before filming?
"We met up a lot for rehearsals, Chris works in quite a fluid way and he brings us in to read the text that he'd written up with Sam [Bain] and Jesse [Armstrong] then lets us go off piste a little bit. He'd lead and guide the improvisation then harvest that back into the script. I'd worked with Arsher Ali before on Britz, but the rest of us didn't really know each other at all. We got quite close during filming because we were all put up in this slightly depressing, claustrophobic student halls in the middle of a building site in Sheffield town centre. We developed cabin fever living in each other's pockets. We took on a group dynamic that wasn't too dissimilar to the one on-screen - ranting, arguing and taking the p*ss out of each other!"

Does that mean Kayvan really does have a problem with Mini Babybels?
"Yeah, and he keeps going on about the fact that he improvised that line - I think he still wants his Blue Peter badge for that one! Kayvan has a problem with a lot of things, mainly remaining silent for more than three seconds! That injected a manic energy into everything. It was such a wildly different bunch of guys, Kayvan just talks non-stop, utter s**t, in as many different voices as he can. He has the attention span of a butterfly! Nigel is quite theatrical and Arsher is purely method. I talk to myself a lot, it was quite a surreal scene of us all clumped around a park bench just mumbling, ranting and poking each other before going on set. It was a lot of fun, though, we've all stayed friends."

Did you get to pick the Honey Monster costume or was that forced upon you?
"No, that was Chris. A lot of the footage you have of the Honey Monster running is actually Warp Films producer Mark Herbert. He's running around because I was unavailable that day. That's actually Mark running, and it's the weakest part of my performance. That's Mark's fault!"

What can we see you in next?
"I'm just filming at the moment a film directed by Ben Drew, Plan B, it's being shot by Gary Shaw from Moon. It's quite a bold and edgy script and it's a role I don't think I've really played before, that's really a super-low-budget film with quite an exciting team. After that I'm going to be shooting a film (Black Thirst) directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, I'm going to play Tahar Rahim's brother. Antonio Banderas is playing our dad and Frieda Pinto's playing my sister. It's all one big happy family with a French accent, an English accent, a Spanish accent and an Indian accent. We'll shoot for mid-Mediterranean somewhere!"

Four Lions is out on Blu-ray and DVD now.

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A pair of new 'Monsters' posters

Friday, September 3 2010, 13:40 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
We really, really, really love Gareth Edwards's directorial debut Monsters, so anything that we come across for the low-budget sci-fi we'll pass on your way.

Here are a couple of new posters for the flick, which opens in the US on October 29 and November 12 in the UK. We particularly like the second one, very creepy and mysterious!

Monsters poster


Monsters poster


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An airbourne 'Resident Evil' exclusive

Friday, September 3 2010, 11:04 BST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
Milla Jovovich returns to the Resident Evil series on September 10 in the franchise's fourth outing, subtitled Afterlife, and its first in 3D. To get you revved up for some extra-dimensional zombie slaying, we have an exclusive clip from the movie showing Milla and Ali Larter's Claire Redfield about to land atop a skyscraper to save some outbreak survivors.

The clip's called 'He's Going To Land', so we expect the quartet to be a tad surprised when their rescuers emerge from the cockpit. Press 'play' below to watch the video...



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