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A s Woody Allen films go this one has all the crucial ingredients of a classic: humour being the most recognisable, though at times it is incredibly dark. It also has a bleak look at relationships, amid betrayal and the backdrop and characteristic setting of New York as the filler for all the glamour within which Jasmine lives. San Francisco comes as the welcoming free spirited alter ego city to the high flying New York skyline. Jasmine has a complete mental breakdown T he story of Blue Jasmine , centres around a high flying Manhattan socialite with a fraudster husband, who among other things is an adulterer and all round con artist played by Alec Baldwin incredibly well with a great sliminess to him. Jasmine ends up living with her adoptive sister in San Francisco, Ginger (Sally Hawkins) who is a down and out character in relation to the sophisticated socialite existence Jasmine is used to. She is brought down to her sisters level, no town houses or charity functions to organ...

I love Christmas films, especially when they're up there with the true classics, like It's a Wonderful Life and Christmas Carol . Roughly a dozen films that are shown on TV around this year are classics, for me, and watching them will get me all warm, fuzzy and over excitable about Christmas and the promise of the day. Soppy Christmas fan that I am. Meredith and Everett...the happy couple?! The Family Stone isn't on the same level as the James Stewart classic or even the Patrick Stewart classic, but features a decent ensemble cast headed by Diane Keaton, the matriarch of the family. The film centres around a very eccentric family of siblings consisting of Rachel McAdams, Luke Wilson and Dermot Mulroney. Everett (Mulroney) brings along his girlfriend Meredith (Sarah Jessica Parker) an uptight businesswoman, to the family gathering for their Christmas celebrations.  Family's are never normal, or perfect, especially when they're as eccentric and this cr...

So it has been announced tonight live on national TV, and broadcast internationally for fans worldwide, that Peter Capaldi will portray the 12th incarnation of the Doctor. In a special show Zoe Ball announced the new Doctor after celebrating the previous 11 incarnations; possibly causing the whole of the internet and Tumblr to explode from the excitement of the casting. The day before, the BBC unveiled the new teaser trailer for series 3 of Sherlock , which revealed Mrs. Hudson, Lestrade, Mycroft, Molly and John with the imminent arrival and re-appearance from Sherlock after the Reichenbach Fall where he "died". This week has been full of exciting announcements and tonight topped it all off. Reaction has been quick and fast with Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook. Fandom pages, websites, fans and celebrities have been voicing their opinion on the actor stepping into the shoes after Matt Smith's 11th Doctor. Peter Capaldi's past roles includes the most famous...

At 7pm tonight on BBC 1 an unveiling of the most iconic role in TV history, the sci-fi role of a lifetime: the Doctor from Doctor Who will be uncovered in front of a live studio audience of fans and worldwide at the same time. I think this makes up for the fact that fans at Comic-Con San Diego were the first to see the Doctor Who 50th anniversary trailer before the UK fans, who were there to begin with and always have been. You can tell I'm pissed about not being at the biggest nerd gathering in the world. Moffat is the man with the choice, his choice could affect the future of the show. It will be the right choice, but just like with Matt Smith who was the youngest actor to play the Doctor, who wasn't even born with Who on the box, they could make a controversial choice; a woman or a younger Doctor. It only took me half an hour into Smith's first appearance to fall in love with his portrayal of the Doctor. I am hoping it will be the same for the 12th. Somehow it...

*SPOILERS ALERT IN THIS POST*!! T he time has come to squeal, if you're a Hunger Games fan. The second book in the trilogy has it's official trailer straight from it's premiere at Comic-Con yesterday. It has finally been uploaded to the social network YouTube and broadcast worldwide, something which I think fans can be very happy about as the trailer is possibly the best and most highly anticipated film of 2013 and looks like it might be even better than the first film. As the biggest Hunger Games fan, of the books primarily, but as a big fan of the decent film adaptation of the first book The Hunger Games; I have been waiting patiently for something to whet the appetite a bit more, to hold me over until November when the film will be released. W hat can we take from this official theatrical trailer. Well for starters it sets up the world for Katniss after winning the 74th annual Hunger Games. There is a sense of a possible uprising, hope for the other ...

1. The Spectacular Now I love a good high school drama that doesn't try to  be funny and doesn't attempt to fit into the same conventional archetypal high school film. A film focusing on real teenagers in real life situations is something anyone older or younger can relate to. It's been done before with The Breakfast Club, Perks of Being a Wallflower,  and possibly though not directly  10 Things I hate About You  and now The Spectacular Now . Starring Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller, relative newcomers with a back catalogue of decent dramas, this is their chance to shine, with past roles as George Clooney's daughter in  The Descendants  and the criminal son in  Rabbit Hole to name their incredible debuts into Hollywood.  This high school film focuses on adolescence in the 21st century, discovering who they are, who they could be and what they want to be. Through love, life, family, relationships. It looks like an unconventional story abou...

Pre-review of Man of Steel 2013  is all about Man of Steel for me, ever since I heard they were making another Superman film a good six years after Superman Returns in 2006. It was critically bashed and stank commercially,  Returns didn't really create a new franchise or build a decent career for Superman himself, Brandon Routh who completely disappeared afterwards. Anybody would have had high expectations for this new fresh faced Superman reboot, simply for the fact that Christopher Nolan who re-imagined Batman could possibly do the same for Superman. Hype during the build up to MOS High anticipation. Epic music to whet the appetite. Three incredibly well edited epic trailers later, has increased the anticipation tenfold for the release on June 14th.   The combination of Zack Snyder, Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer should equal any decent summer blockbuster since the beginning of legendary comic book films with The Dark Knight.  It ...