Source: FilmShaft - The Jason Stathamthon Report
Jason Statham is a special sort of British film icon. He can kick ass with the best screen heroes in the world and deliver the odd wisecrack and one liner, to boot. Yes. Great Britain has an international action movie star and that should be celebrated. And it was!
Lionsgate held a Jason Statham movie event - what we like to call the Jason Stathamthon - at the Charlotte St. Hotel on Saturday 7th May where a gathering of bloggers and competition winners sat down to gorge not only on Haribo, jelly beans and popcorn, but four Jason Statham flicks!
With Blitz released in UK cinemas on 20th May and the Blu-ray and DVD release of The Mechanic on 6th June, FilmShaft's Martyn Conterio and Alan Simmons went along to report on the event and re-assess the cinema of Jason Statham. In a word or two,...
Jason Statham is a special sort of British film icon. He can kick ass with the best screen heroes in the world and deliver the odd wisecrack and one liner, to boot. Yes. Great Britain has an international action movie star and that should be celebrated. And it was!
Lionsgate held a Jason Statham movie event - what we like to call the Jason Stathamthon - at the Charlotte St. Hotel on Saturday 7th May where a gathering of bloggers and competition winners sat down to gorge not only on Haribo, jelly beans and popcorn, but four Jason Statham flicks!
With Blitz released in UK cinemas on 20th May and the Blu-ray and DVD release of The Mechanic on 6th June, FilmShaft's Martyn Conterio and Alan Simmons went along to report on the event and re-assess the cinema of Jason Statham. In a word or two,...
- 5/9/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
UK fanboys and girls got to see sci-fi comedy, Paul, before the Yanks. Which made a nice change. The Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen get-together will be landing on Blu-ray and DVD from June 13th.
We’ve been sent over the cover artwork and details of all the extras that you’ll find on the discs. See below for full details. You can read our review of cinema release here and read about the time FilmShaft’s Alan Simmons interviewed Pegg and Frost in an Rv here.
Press Release:
From the team that bought you Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead comes an out-of-this-world gift for Father’s Day and the must-own comedy adventure of the year… Paul. Comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up again in this inventive, laugh-out-loud film as Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost); two sci-fi geeks who embark on an insane road...
We’ve been sent over the cover artwork and details of all the extras that you’ll find on the discs. See below for full details. You can read our review of cinema release here and read about the time FilmShaft’s Alan Simmons interviewed Pegg and Frost in an Rv here.
Press Release:
From the team that bought you Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead comes an out-of-this-world gift for Father’s Day and the must-own comedy adventure of the year… Paul. Comedy duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up again in this inventive, laugh-out-loud film as Graeme (Pegg) and Clive (Frost); two sci-fi geeks who embark on an insane road...
- 4/1/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
It was rather overrated but met with good will and a fair dose of nostalgia upon its release but The Expendables failed to impress this writer. Stallone talked up a sequel even before the original was released and now it looks like the material is “expendable”. He won’t be writing or directing a second outing for the 1980s old timers after all.
24 Frames are reporting Stallone has passed on writing and directing the sequel and is currently planning to meet directors to talk about them taking over the production. It still looks like Stallone will be acting in the next adventure but the action hero doesn’t want the responsibility of writing, producing and directing. Currently pegged to bash out a script (in crayon, probably) are David Agosto and Ken Kaufman, writers of such classics as Space Cowboys.
Stallone talked a lot about Bruce Willis’ Mr. Church returning in...
24 Frames are reporting Stallone has passed on writing and directing the sequel and is currently planning to meet directors to talk about them taking over the production. It still looks like Stallone will be acting in the next adventure but the action hero doesn’t want the responsibility of writing, producing and directing. Currently pegged to bash out a script (in crayon, probably) are David Agosto and Ken Kaufman, writers of such classics as Space Cowboys.
Stallone talked a lot about Bruce Willis’ Mr. Church returning in...
- 3/9/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
A Serbian Film was so outrageous FilmShaft actually sent along two reviewers to gauge their opinions and offered their thoughts (read Alan Simmons’ review here and Cheryl Carter’s here). The film was shown cut at the Sitges film festival back in October 2010 and the film’s fesitval head, Angel Sala, has been slapped with a lawsuit for “exhibiting child pornography”.
Director Srdjan Spasojevic shot several highly disturbing scenes with a doll and animatronics – and without taste or decency – but it seems a bit far-fetched to call it “exhibiting child pornography”. Writing in Spanish paper El Pais, film director David Treuba wrote:
“If we believe that everything shown on a screen is real, Christopher Lee will be arrested one day accused of biting young virgins’ jugular veins.”
While that’s quite missing the point somewhat, the kernel of a point remains, no matter how strangely put. Spasojevic is guilty of...
Director Srdjan Spasojevic shot several highly disturbing scenes with a doll and animatronics – and without taste or decency – but it seems a bit far-fetched to call it “exhibiting child pornography”. Writing in Spanish paper El Pais, film director David Treuba wrote:
“If we believe that everything shown on a screen is real, Christopher Lee will be arrested one day accused of biting young virgins’ jugular veins.”
While that’s quite missing the point somewhat, the kernel of a point remains, no matter how strangely put. Spasojevic is guilty of...
- 3/7/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Oh lordy, some films sound so bad they must be seen. Age of the Dragons isn’t one of them. It’s just bad. FilmShaft writer Alan Simmons braved a screening of it yesterday and you can read his review here.
In the meantime, if you’re a ‘bad movie’ masochist you can check out the trailer below. Don’t say we didn’t warn you… because we have!
Synopsis:
Based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Age Of The Dragons starring Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones is an all-action re-telling of the classic story like never before. Captain Ahab (Glover) and his crew hunt the most feared creatures to have ever existed: Dragons.
Ishmael, a charismatic harpooner, joins their quest with the promise of riches beyond his wildest fantasies. Whilst Ahab’s adopted daughter Rachel, sexy yet tough, runs the hunting vessel. And it’s not long before the...
In the meantime, if you’re a ‘bad movie’ masochist you can check out the trailer below. Don’t say we didn’t warn you… because we have!
Synopsis:
Based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Age Of The Dragons starring Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones is an all-action re-telling of the classic story like never before. Captain Ahab (Glover) and his crew hunt the most feared creatures to have ever existed: Dragons.
Ishmael, a charismatic harpooner, joins their quest with the promise of riches beyond his wildest fantasies. Whilst Ahab’s adopted daughter Rachel, sexy yet tough, runs the hunting vessel. And it’s not long before the...
- 3/1/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
To be honest both myself and fellow FilmShaft writer Alan Simmons were dismayed by this news. D.J. Caruso, a middle of the road director if ever there was one, is setting out to helm Garth Ennis’ super-cool comic series Preacher.
For fans of the original comic series this won’t be welcome news. Bringing such a commercially orientated and bland director to such rich and chaotic material doesn’t bode well. Even if the director tweets about “going to the dark side”. Yeah, right dude.
It’s taken an age for the project to get off the ground with previous directors such as Mark Steven Johnson, Sam Mendes and – shudder – Rachel Talahay attached to the material at various points. John August was the last person to have worked on the screenplay.
Caruso recently helmed I Am Number Four and such bland fare as Disturbia and Eagle Eye. Quite what appeals...
For fans of the original comic series this won’t be welcome news. Bringing such a commercially orientated and bland director to such rich and chaotic material doesn’t bode well. Even if the director tweets about “going to the dark side”. Yeah, right dude.
It’s taken an age for the project to get off the ground with previous directors such as Mark Steven Johnson, Sam Mendes and – shudder – Rachel Talahay attached to the material at various points. John August was the last person to have worked on the screenplay.
Caruso recently helmed I Am Number Four and such bland fare as Disturbia and Eagle Eye. Quite what appeals...
- 2/22/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Through a set of rather surreal circumstances, I find myself and three other bloggers interviewing Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, not within the plush rooms of Claridge’s Hotel, but rather inside an Rv parked on the street behind it. Pegg and Frost are here to talk about Paul, their latest film, which sees them embarking on a road trip across the USA with a foul-mouthed alien in tow. Pegg and Frost were genuinely lovely people and were great interviewees, more than willing to tell us everything they could and also very, very funny.
Was Paul named after any Paul in particular?
Pegg: No. The idea was – we were just spit-balling, it was literally like, ‘What are we going to do today? The weather’s nice’ and we were like, ‘Okay, yeah, he’s an alien and what if his name’s Paul?’ and, you know, it was the most...
Was Paul named after any Paul in particular?
Pegg: No. The idea was – we were just spit-balling, it was literally like, ‘What are we going to do today? The weather’s nice’ and we were like, ‘Okay, yeah, he’s an alien and what if his name’s Paul?’ and, you know, it was the most...
- 2/10/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Tom Hooper, director of The Damned United and, more recently, The King’s Speech was in London last week to show his support for the Jameson Empire Awards Done in Sixty Seconds Competition, of which he on the judging panel. I was lucky enough to spend a few minutes chatting about the competition and Hooper’s films. Hooper was charming, eloquent and affable and much younger than I had expected him to be. It was a shame we only had a short time to spend with the busy director as I could have quite happily continued to quiz him all afternoon. With thanks to Craig Grobler (@The_EST) and Alan Simmons (@v_for_vienetta) for additional questions.
Congratulations on your success with The King’s Speech and thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. We’re here to talk about the Jameson Empire Awards Done in 60 Seconds competition,...
Congratulations on your success with The King’s Speech and thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. We’re here to talk about the Jameson Empire Awards Done in 60 Seconds competition,...
- 1/24/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Ron Perlman is awesome. Like a million hot dogs or something. Critics might think Season of the Witch is shite, but Ron Perlman is in it so it’s worth watching. End. Of. Story. Any-hoo, Perlman has been talking to IO9 very recently and dropped some info about Hellboy 3. Which is very nice of him.
He can’t reveal too much, and don’t expect the flick to happen for a while – there’s a little sci-fi horror movie in the works called At The Mountains of Madness, which re-teams Mr. Perlman with Guillermo Del Toro, but it is certainly a project being worked on:
“The only thing I can share with you is we have this demon who is a victim of this Oracle, which is not negotiable. He’s been summoned to the Earth for the destruction of mankind, and that’s non-negotiable. This whole notion that his nature,...
He can’t reveal too much, and don’t expect the flick to happen for a while – there’s a little sci-fi horror movie in the works called At The Mountains of Madness, which re-teams Mr. Perlman with Guillermo Del Toro, but it is certainly a project being worked on:
“The only thing I can share with you is we have this demon who is a victim of this Oracle, which is not negotiable. He’s been summoned to the Earth for the destruction of mankind, and that’s non-negotiable. This whole notion that his nature,...
- 1/6/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Jason Statham. He’s a bit like Marmite and he’s definitely a Ronseal kind of actor. Not wooden (okay, yeah, he’s wooden) but his brand of cinema does what it says on the tin. You can even love it or leave it. While I’m in the latter category I do like the Transporter films, but fellow contributor Alan Simmons is a big fan.
Statham has teamed up with Brit director Simon West for a remake of the classic Michael Winner-Charles Bronson flick The Mechanic. The Us ‘red band’ trailer has landed featuring lots of violence which no doubt fans will lap up and declare to be The Stath’s best film ever. Forget Lee Christmas. Meet Arthur Bishop. He’s dead hard.
Synopsis:
Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a ‘mechanic’ – an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It...
Statham has teamed up with Brit director Simon West for a remake of the classic Michael Winner-Charles Bronson flick The Mechanic. The Us ‘red band’ trailer has landed featuring lots of violence which no doubt fans will lap up and declare to be The Stath’s best film ever. Forget Lee Christmas. Meet Arthur Bishop. He’s dead hard.
Synopsis:
Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a ‘mechanic’ – an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It...
- 1/4/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
It’s the final day in our Films Of 2010. To celebrate and rejoice in the best art and entertainment format there is, we’ve each asked our contributors to name their top five films of the year and give a bit of an explanation.
We’ve been rolling out the list each day and you can see other entries at the bottom of this one. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there. Judging from results, we’ve definitely got a clear winner – which we’ll announce and crown shortly.
Today we...
We’ve been rolling out the list each day and you can see other entries at the bottom of this one. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there. Judging from results, we’ve definitely got a clear winner – which we’ll announce and crown shortly.
Today we...
- 12/24/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
FilmShaft’s Movies of 2010 ploughs on like a ship at sea, cutting through mighty waves, all to praise the year’s best film releases. Or something like that. To celebrate and rejoice in the best art and entertainment format there is, we’ve each asked our contributors to name their top five films of the year and give a bit of an explanation.
We’ve been rolling out the list each day and you can see other entries at the bottom of this one. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there.
We’ve been rolling out the list each day and you can see other entries at the bottom of this one. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there.
- 12/23/2010
- by FilmShaft Staff
- FilmShaft.com
A Serbian Film, cinema’s bête noire of 2010, is getting a release on Blu-ray and DVD on 3rd January. Some were repulsed by it and others attracted like a moth to a flame. Even critics who didn’t hate it said it was disgusting. Has this made you want to see it yet?
Nothing says Happy New Year like this traumatising arthouse monstrosity. Once seen you’ll never forget it, put it that way.
I didn’t care for it, in fact I hated its guts, FilmShaft’s Cheryl Carter braved a screening for us (read her review here, and Alan Simmons offered an alternative view here.
Press release:
“Having created a storm of controversy following its UK cinema release, which resulted in some strongly divided and extreme critical opinions, A Serbian Film comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 3rd January 2011. Now, British film fans will have the chance to...
Nothing says Happy New Year like this traumatising arthouse monstrosity. Once seen you’ll never forget it, put it that way.
I didn’t care for it, in fact I hated its guts, FilmShaft’s Cheryl Carter braved a screening for us (read her review here, and Alan Simmons offered an alternative view here.
Press release:
“Having created a storm of controversy following its UK cinema release, which resulted in some strongly divided and extreme critical opinions, A Serbian Film comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 3rd January 2011. Now, British film fans will have the chance to...
- 12/22/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
It’s the fifth day of our epic of epicness. Well, our Movies of 2010. We’ve had a great year of movie experiences … yadda yadda yadda … We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. We’ve hurled. To celebrate and rejoice in the best art and entertainment format there is, we’ve each asked our contributors to name their top five films of the year and give a bit of an explanation.
We’ve been rolling out the list each day and you can see other entries at the bottom of this one. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we...
We’ve been rolling out the list each day and you can see other entries at the bottom of this one. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we...
- 12/21/2010
- by Michael Brooks
- FilmShaft.com
It’s the fourth day now in our Movies of 2010. We’ve had a great year of movie experiences … yadda yadda yadda … We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. We’ve hurled. To celebrate and rejoice in the best art and entertainment format there is, we’ve each asked our contributors to name their top five films of the year and give a bit of an explanation. We’ve been rolling out the list each day and you can see other entries at the bottom of this one. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there.
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there.
- 12/20/2010
- by FilmShaft Staff
- FilmShaft.com
It’s the third installment in our Movies of 2010. We’ve had a great year of movie experiences. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. We’ve hurled. Especially since A Serbian Film came on the scene. To celebrate, we’ve each asked our contributors to name their top five films of the year and give a bit of an explanation. We’ll be rolling out the list each day. Please feel free to add your own comments and suggestions. Seriously, we see a lot of films and sometimes it’s easy to forget. Five minutes later you find yourself saying “oh wait, what about…”
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there. Judging from results, we’ve definitely got a clear winner – which we’ll announce and crown shortly.
Making a top ten list is difficult enough and a top five even harder. Some great flicks got left by the wayside and we’ve got honourable mentions here and there. Judging from results, we’ve definitely got a clear winner – which we’ll announce and crown shortly.
- 12/19/2010
- by FilmShaft Staff
- FilmShaft.com
Hye-ja Kim plays Mother. She is in her fifties and apart from scraping a living selling herbs and providing acupuncture to the local customers, she spends her days mollycoddling her mentally disabled 27-year-old son Do-Joon (Bin Won).
After being released from an assault charge, he goes out on a drinking binge vowing to have sex with a girl but he gets so plastered that he is thrown out of a bar. As he stumbles home he comes across a young schoolgirl who he propositions.
The next morning the police find the very same girl dead and the evidence points to only one suspect. Do-Joon is arrested for murder and now this overprotective Mother will do anything to clear his name and prove him innocent. After all her son is only a harmless slow-witted fool isn’t he?
As the plot thickens and unravels we uncover extra details and complications that...
After being released from an assault charge, he goes out on a drinking binge vowing to have sex with a girl but he gets so plastered that he is thrown out of a bar. As he stumbles home he comes across a young schoolgirl who he propositions.
The next morning the police find the very same girl dead and the evidence points to only one suspect. Do-Joon is arrested for murder and now this overprotective Mother will do anything to clear his name and prove him innocent. After all her son is only a harmless slow-witted fool isn’t he?
As the plot thickens and unravels we uncover extra details and complications that...
- 9/20/2010
- by FilmShaft Staff
- FilmShaft.com
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