If you like your posters sparse and colourless you probably wont like the look of the new Toy Story 3 Poster, your also most likely a giant douche. I don’t know anyone who’s not looking forward to this, first off it’s a Toy Story movie, secondly it’s a Pixar movie. Count me in, two thumbs up.

Toy Story 3 is being directed by Lee Unkrich, another one of Pixar’s creative masterminds who previously co-directed Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo. The screenplay was written by Michael Arndt, the Oscar winning screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine who is a newcomer to the Pixar family. Disney will be bringing Pixar’s Toy Story 3 to theaters everywhere in digital 3D starting on June 18th this summer.

This looks creepy as hell, it’s being released in the US the middle of April, I’m not sure of a UK release date but it looks good, real disturbing but still good! The premise is horrifying, the trailer is a bit generic but the cast is great and it looks stylish and atmospheric so I’m gonna give it a go.

After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief—stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over the other side. With an unrelenting edge of menace, After.life is a stylish psychological thriller which provocatively questions the line between life and death.

This looks great, I’m a big fan of  muddy, sword and sandal films. With Neil Marshall (The Descent, Dogsoldiers) directing and a great cast – Dominic West (McNulty), Noel Clarke, Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko, Riz Ahmed and David Morrissey I’m in, two thumbs up!

The movie speculates on the fate of Rome’s reputedly ‘lost’ Ninth Legion*, who in this take are north of Hadrian’s Wall, engaged in a bloody battle and facing a bit of trouble getting out of hostile Pict country.

Deadline Hollywood seem to have a big insider story every week. To they’re credit, what they report almost always comes into fruition, they’re pretty much consistently on the money$. The article reports Warner Brothers have turned to Christopher Nolan to mentor the development of a new Superman movie (he’s not writing or directing). He has reportedly been offered a ‘godfather’ role. ‘ Thankfully the article points out “It would definitely not be a follow-up to Superman Returns.” For me Superman Returns was a giant piece of horse turd, I’m happy Warner Brothers are going in another direction, having Christopher Nolan on board has to help, his streak of great films is unparalleled at the moment- Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight and from what it looks like Inception.

The thing that really interested me about this piece was the fact that Christopher Nolan has ‘hatched an idea for Warner Bros’ third Batman instalment. ‘and that ‘his brother and frequent collaborator Jonah Nolan, and David Goyer who co-wrote Batman Begins and penned the story for The Dark Knight, are off scripting it.’ I CAN’T WAIT, I don’t know anyone who didn’t love The Dark Knight!

Chris Columbus has brought the world some of the most loved family movies of the last few decades – Home Alone 1 & 2, the first two Harry Potter films, Mrs Doubtfire and the writer behind Gremlins and The Goonies. Logan Lerman plays the title character in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and is also rumored to be starring as the rebooted Spiderman. Check out my interview with the two of them below

Trouble-prone Percy Jackson is having problems in high school – but that’s the least of his challenges. It’s the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy’s Greek mythology texts and into his life. Percy has learned that his real father is Poseidon, god of the sea, which means Percy is a demigod – half human, half god. At the same time, the powerful gods on Olympus are feuding, which could launch a war enveloping our entire planet.

How’s it feel that after all the hard work, the films finally coming out?

Chris Columbus: It’s a wonderful feeling, we actually didn’t know we’d make the release date, we always had this date in mind. It worked out very well, I’m very happy with the film, very happy with the visual affects and very happy to say it’s nothing like Harry Potter (laughs) I just wanted to get that off my chest immediately.

How much has CGI technology changed since that first Harry Potter film?

Chris Columbus: The first three Harry Potter films were a gradual course in CGI for myself, if you notice the first film is a little creaky, it’s ok then as we subsequently went to picture two and three the visual effects got better, I learned a lot, I realised there’s a certain method and that you just have to be obsessive with the visual effects to make sure they’re seamless with what the actors are doing. With this I think we succeeded.

You started out real young in your career, this is a great roll for you.

Logan Lerman: Yeah I started really young, I’m from LA so it’s much more accessible to give it a shot, there’s an audition for a commercial somewhere around the block. I slowly climbed the ladder, now I’m here and I don’t how I got here, I just kept going with it. I’m really proud of this film, if people recognise me from this film then I’m fine with it, it’s very flattering to me, it’s the biggest compliment you can get. As long as it’s for the right reasons, I’m proud of it.

What made you interested in making the film, and what made you come to the decision for making the characters slightly older than in the books?

Chris Columbus: For me it was important that the characters felt a little older than they did in the book because I couldn’t envision battle training, gladiator training eleven year olds with wooden swords, I felt this needed to be a little bit more edgy, a little more gritty and dirtier as much as we can do in a PG film. Also I was intrigued in the concept, which I had never seen before, with the concept of Greek mythology coexisting with modern American culture, I thought it was a great idea, that was why I wanted to do the film.

What parts of the Greek mythology were you keen to get across.

Chris Columbus: If you know anything about Greek mythology there’s that certain element that is very complex and dark and that’s not really for children, then there’s the classic element that we all learnt at school when we were twelve years old. I think we’re tapping into that element. It’s certainly not an educational film, that will send children running from the theatres but hopefully, it could develop some sort of interest in Greek mythology for them and maybe they can take an interest in reading more and more about it. For me I wanted the film to work for both parents and children, I’ve had to accompany my own children to a lot of children’s films and sometimes when it’s a little animal singing I’m bored out of my skull, so for me it was really really important that it worked for the parents as well.

With the number of books in the series, do you think we’ll see more films coming from the series?

Chris Columbus: I don’t want to be presumptuous enough to say that we’re gonna be successful and that we’re gonna be able to make the other films, but if we are successful enough and I hope we are, I’d love to make another film immediately with these guys. I loved the cast, I had a wonderful time making the film. It was a lot of hard work but I just loved the enthusiasm and the lack of cynicism, it’s a really talented cast we assembled, I wanna go back and work quickly.

Why are you interested in these types of films?

Chris Columbus: I think it’s the lack of cynicism, it comes from the fact that these guys are just happy to have jobs at the most basic level. The cast is so happy being there and performing it just enthuses me with the same amount of energy, I really like working off that energy. You rarely see it with people who have been working for years and years and years.

Logan were you a fan of the books before making the film?

Logan Lerman: I discovered them through the movie, I knew nothing of them before, when I first got the script right below the title it said Chris’s name so that’s what really attracted me to it, his films shaped my childhood so much, I’m such a big fan, I wanna become a part in another one of his films. Then I read the script and fell in love with it, then I read the book and fell in love with it so it was a backward process for me.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is in cinemas the 12th of Febuary

To put it out there I’m much more of a beard man myself, moustaches aren’t really my thing, they do intrigue me though, they come in every shape and size, they are synonymous with a wide range of people, your sophisticated gentleman, 1980’s porn star, a hill billy and cowboys. It has been said they give men a special source of righteous/evil power depending on the moustachee.

Tom Selleck has done more for moustaches than what gypsies have done for caravans, he’s that integral. Him and Sam Elliot share the co-regency for Moustache King of the Universe. When you think of Tom Selleck your first thought isn’t Magnum PI or 3 Men and a Baby, it’s his legendary tash.

Sam Elliot is co-regent of Moustache King of the Universe with Tom Selleck. Many conspiracy theorists have stated that his Moustache has completely engulfed his lips, which is the reason for his gruff voice.

Not only is Daniel Day Lewis one of the greatest actors of all time, he is also a moustache connoisseur, his finest moustached achievement was as Bill The Butcher in Gangs Of New York. His other notable moustached performance was as Daniel Plainview in the brilliant There Will Be Blood.

Clark Gable has the crème de la crème of gentlemans moustache, he could beat you at poker, drink scotch and bed your woman all at once. A master of the pencil moustache, he set the trend for gentlemen around the world.

Richard Pryor is the funniest man to do stand up comedy, period. he also starred in 45 movies. The alleged source of his supreme comedic prowess was his moustache. RIP

When I think of a stereotypical moustached hollywood actor in the 1980’s I think of Burt Reynolds, he has the archetype bad pornstar moustache. His follwers have given his tash a  hugely original name – the Burtstache (I’m not lying google it or join the facebook fan page)

Thanks to Adolf Hitler this style of moustache never really caught on circa 1939. Chalie Chaplin is one of the most influential actors, comedians and directors in cinemas young history, it’s a shame his moustache resembles Hitlers.

Borat sports the  perfect dorky moustache, he just looks awkward, this the the weird science teachers moustache, not very cool but undeniably awesome.

Hulk Hogan has probably been in some of the worst movies of all time, they are so bad you could use them as coercive interrogation (torture). The only saving grace is his horseshoe moustache, if you focus on his tash the whole time, you’ll be able to get through them, just.

Jason Lee has done great things for the moustache in the 21st century, beards have almost fully taken over but Jason is standing strong.

Last Sunday London welcomed Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon for Invictus’s European Press Conference. Below is  the second half of what took place, you can check out part 1 here. Invictus is in UK cinemas 5th Febuary.

I read that you try to take as little amount of takes as possible while making your film.

Clint Eastwood: I always try to do one, it doesn’t necessarily work out that way though. If that one take works I’ll take that, if the third take works I’ll print that. Sometimes I do like to have a few different set ups but I’ll try and make a decision right at that time, whether it’s good, bad or otherwise. I think once you start doing, thirty or forty takes, you can get lost somewhere and you don’t know what you are looking for, I like to think I know what I’m looking for, right or wrong.

As actors what’s it like working with Clint?

Morgan Freeman: I take Clint as my favourite director to work with because I respond very well to the one or two take director, he’s the most consistent in that area. Directors who as Clint said that need seventeen takes, I don’t think they know what they want, it certainly doesn’t help the actors sense or security when he has to keep going over and over things and you don’t know why, you think what am I doing, what do you want,.

Matt Damon: Yeah some people just collect a bunch of footage and edit it later. You definitely feel a lot more protected when the director is moving on, you feel like something is happening, so you know they are watching intently. Coppolla told me that Antonioni said to him, this is before the days of video village that as a director you should stand right next to the camera, look with your naked eye and if you see something that is real to you, you look up to your operator and if your operator gives you the look that yeah I saw that too, then you print and move on. Clint basically cuts on camera, I’ve worked with a couple of guys who do that and as Morgan said it gives you a real sense of security because you know you’re in very able hands and the director is watching the movie unfold, your getting what you wanna get and it doesn’t take seventeen hours to get it.

Clint Eastwood: I’ve always felt a lot of times when a person has to do twenty takes on something, it’s usually for one or two reason, either they don’t quite know what they’re looking for or also they don’ know what there next set up is so they’re using up the time and utilising the actors to kill time until some great idea comes to them, that becomes a bit of a problem, there not abusing the actors because they’re there to act but it’s a bit unfair, it will give them a big sense of insecurity as Morgan said, I’ve worked with people like that myself. In the old days a lot of people done it defensively because they felt they didn’t want to leave a load of extra film because they didn’t want the studio executives to come in and recur their film and restructure everything, so they would give them it as little as possible, there’s only one way of putting it together, that was done back in the thirty’s and forty’s when the execs had a tremendous amount of power

Looking over your films as a director which has been the biggest challenge for you and why? And which of your acting performances are you most proud of?

Clint Eastwood: When you’ve done as many films as I’ve done you just keep going, I never look back and think too much about them, I’ve done some work I’ve been proud of over the years but which is my favourite, I don’t know. I’ve had little jumps in my career, like Unforgiven and then when I tried to do something different, Letters To Iwo Jima I liked doing a lot, anything with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon (laughs). I like to get a chance too work with people I respect a lot. A favourite performance I don’t know. Once the films done and once something been performed, it’s up to someone else to make a judgement on it.

When you choose the subject do you trust in your instincts? How do you choose your films?

Clint Eastwood: Yes I do, I always trust my instincts, it was just a story that I liked, I didn’t approach it about a picture about Rugby, we obviously wanted to make the Rugby very good because that was an inspiration for Mr Mandela, to utilize it as a tool to unite his country. Morgan called me and said look I’ve got a really good script, he didn’t even tell me it was about Nelson Mandela, so I read the script and liked it very much, I’ve always been an admirer of Nelson Mandela, I was amazed by reading the script and the book because it seems so creative, such a creative way to unify a country, which was in really deep trouble, almost on the brink of civil war. Mr Mandela had been in prison for quite a few years, nobody knew what was gonna happen when he came out, then he came out with this kind of an imagination, I just thought this is something politicians around the world could learn a lot from, having a certain creativity and bringing people together, instead of just talking about it he was doing it, that was my reason for doing the picture, Rugby was exciting and that was fun, but even if it was Nelson Mandela and Texas Hold Em Poker I still would have done it because I admire the man.

I’ve been looking forward to this for well over a year now, I almost gave up hope after the release date kept getting moved around, it was originally scheduled to be released all the way back in November 2008. Talk of re-shoots, the change of composer and the change of directors put a downer on this for me. The latest trailer and a couple clips brought back my faith though, I always enjoy Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins as well. After all this Twilight crap we need a good Wherewolf/monster film! I’ve got my fingers crossed I’m still not fully convinced though.

Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, THE WOLFMAN brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins.  Oscar® winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes.  Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar® winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Lawrence Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died.  After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget.  But when his brother’s fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search.  He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.

As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full.  Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor.  But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself…one he never imagined existed.

Avatar is raking it in, last Saturday it sealed it’s place in the record books as the highest grossing film of all time at the international box office with a grand total of $1.288bn (Titanic’s International Box Office receipt is $1.242), it has now grossed more than $100m for the sixth consecutive weekend internationally. It is also creeping up on Titanic’s domestic (US) Box Office record of $600.8m with $552.8m. I don’t think anyone expected it to make this much money, I thought it would be a huge success but damn, that is a lot of 0’s and $’s. Check out my interview with James Cameron, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver here