The Edge were lucky enough to be part of a select group of individuals across the country to attend a viewing of Hope Springs a month before its release in the UK and all we can say is this is one for the masses with 3 big names in film coming together to portray the…
The previous Bourne film, 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, was superb. This fourth instalment may even be a little bit better. Matt Damon’s character occupies an off-screen role, and Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner) is brought to the foreground. Similar to Jason Bourne, Cross is the product of a scientific military programme to produce the perfect agents through…
With the news that the eagerly anticipated Hobbit films were to become three, and a second trilogy for Peter Jackson, came no real surprise. The rumour had been floating around for a while – Peter Jackson had to merely confirm this as the case, in a statement released on Facebook on July 30th. This was…
Film director Tony Scott has died at the age of 68 in Los Angeles after jumping off a bridge. At the time of writing, his death is believed to be a suicide. Tony Scott was one of Hollywood’s biggest directors, and was responsible for modern classics such as Top Gun, Crimson Tide, and True Romance,…
Ted is the first foray into feature length, live-action filmmaking of Family Guy creator and mastermind Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane’s animated TV shows have divided opinion and Ted may do the same. Like its eponymous character, the film is flawed, lewd, crude and may be a little offensive to some but is also one of the funniest films…
It has been seven years since the reboot of the Batman franchise and four years since the iconic second film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga; the haunting and astounding The Dark Knight. A film which included a posthumous Oscar winning performance from the late Heath Ledger, record breaking box office returns and left the Caped Crusader…
Astonishingly prolific director Steven Soderbergh keeps on threatening to give up filmmaking for good. It’s unclear whether or not he is serious about this, or whether it will actually happen (a recent interview on Radio 4 suggested that he is now totally serious about retiring). I really hope this doesn’t happen, as Steven Soderbergh is…
Fresh from Denmark, historical drama A Royal Affair tells the true story of a scandal that rocked Danish society in the late 18th century. Caroline (Alicia Vikander), whose elder brother became King George III, leaves her native England to marry Christian VII of Denmark (Mikkel Følsgaard). So set for life then? Well not quite. After…
Since the release of Michael Jackson’s concert-documentary movie This Is It in 2010, the genre has taken off as everyone from JLS to Justin Bieber realises there is money to be made, and Katy Perry is the latest member of pop royalty to release her own. Documenting her professional highs, and personal lows, the whole…
After a mere ten years, Columbia Pictures and Marvel decided it was time for a reboot in the Spider-Man franchise. For many of the audience members (myself including), Sam Raimi’s film from 2002 is still relatively fresh in people’s memory and many have questioned the need for the reboot of the series. This newest outing,…
Killer Joe is a furiously brilliant, astute and hypnotic film.
Whether you think it is brilliant popular fiction, a guilty pleasure, or just gutter trash, E.L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy is a publishing phenomenon. Even before it became an explosive success in the UK, (it’s now the fastest selling adult paperback of all time) Hollywood studios were fighting to secure the rights to a film…
In his previous film, The House of the Devil, horror director Ti West successfully paid homage to independent horror films of the late 1970s and early 1980s through his use of grainy imagery and camera work, whilst almost playfully covering both the slasher and satanic possession sub-genres. In his latest outing, The Innkeepers, West moves on…
Rupert Sanders, director of Snow White and the Huntsman, is from the world of advertising. This has been discussed a lot in the many preview articles and reviews of this film – the second big-screen adaptation of the classic fairytale to reach screens this year. It’s understandable why people are making a song and dance…