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Gary Oldman has said that the follow-up to The Dark Knight should begin shooting next year.

The actor made the off-the-cuff remark during a press conference at last week's Comic-Con convention in San Diego.

Following a question by a fan, Oldman said: "I think the next Batman is next year. We start shooting next year. You didn't hear that from me."

Oldman played James Gordon in the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

It has been suggested that Nolan could return to helm the third movie in the series since its reboot, despite earlier reports to the contrary.

Michael Caine, who played butler Alfred Pennyworth in the films, had claimed that the next movie would not begin shooting for some time, while adding that its villain would be The Riddler.

While we still have three special episodes before Mr Tennent leaves the good ship TARDIS, we all know that the most interesting Doctor Who news out there is about the new boy. Mr Matt 'who is he' Smith.
It's not interest in how he acts, who he fights, how the stories are written, NO. NO, it's all about what his costume will be.

Well....here you go.....

There he is. The 11th Doctor with his new partner in crime. Her name is Karen Gillan and she is playing Amy Pond.

While he may be dressed like one of those boring teachers at school you always advoided, it could be just what the Doctor needed.

Stephen Moffit is now in charge, as Russel T David stepped down. This is good. While is enjoyed Davis's Doctor Who he never really got in to a good roll.
I mean this as in he would use simple plot devices to ruin a great cliffhanger. He would use a stupid RESET button and everything would be done and dusted.
He did what he thought the public wanted.

Moffit who was script writter for some of the best episodes is now in charge and his script stories have always been darker, more of a edge, and most of the time quite funny.

While the last two Doctors, Chris and David have been fantasic can Smith better them....mmmmmm that's in doubt.

Though Karen as Amy Pond looks set to be better then the doctors last few weak assistants. Plus she's the best looking.

Till then lets look forward to Tennents last few episodes.

Till then......

Before I go on I must admit I have seen this movie twice over the last three days since its release. The first time I saw it I didn’t enjoy it, I wasn’t sure if it was down to high expectations, or just the fact it was rubbish. But, after seeing it a second time I understand what I hated on my first viewing.
It was the annoying group of people sitting near me who talked over the whole movie, screaming out what was basically on the screen as if they had been hired to give a running commentary over the movie. It got to the point where I hoped the film would end quickly so I could leave.
Luckily I went to see it again and I loved it. But, if I see those annoying people in the cinema again I will, on no un certain terms, set fire to the shits.

PLOT- Gay Austrian fashion reporter Brüno is fired from his show after disrupting a catwalk show during Milan Fashion week. Accompanied by his assistant's assistant Lutz (played by Swedish actor Gustaf Hammarsten), he travels to the United States to become a superstar.

Borat has to be one of the funniest, most cleverest movies of all time. I saw Borat in the cinema on my own. There was one other person in the screen (who sat a little to close to me for my liking, but at least HE DIDN’T TALK while the movie was on…no, he was a good boy). I was, at the time, not a huge fan of Ali G and showed no interest in seeing the movie. But, while I waited for my girlfriend to finish work I went and saw the only film that was on at the time that would fit in with her finishing.
It was brilliant. Made better for the low expectations.
Sasha Baron Cohen was a genius. Since then I watched all the Ali G shows and loved them. Cohen picks of the stupid and self righteous and destroys them without them even knowing.
It’s all done as a spoof documentary. So, the people he interviews (while working through a plot) believe Borat, Bruno, Ali G are real people and don’t think they are being set up.
As Borat, in the film of the same name he goes in to a gun shop in America and asks the owner ‘what is the best gun to kill a Jew?’
The gun shop owner doesn’t batter an eye lid and shows him a gun which he describes as perfect for killing Jews.

It’s, for some, hard to watch, but if you can stick with it you will see that it is entertaining as it is teaching. Sure, it has gross out moments and it’s very silly but, it shows up the people in this world who believe strongly in things us ‘normal’ people deem wrong.

Bruno first saw light in the Ali G show where he danced next to some sexy cheerleaders at a sports match in Alabama. The men watching stood and stared as a gay man danced. They boo’ed, spat at and chased.

The main point about these movies is just how clever Cohen is being. First up if I didn’t know better I wouldn’t know Ali G

Borat

and Bruno

are played by the same person. They look so different and sound so different and it’s easy to see how people play in to their every words.
In a world where Gervais, Mitchell and Webb, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson etc play and look the same in every part they do it’s nice to see a comedy star make an effort.
Ronnie Barker became Fletcer and Arcwright with ease and looked so different and acted so different. The same with Steve Coogan in Partridge or the calf family.

The film flows along at a quick pace. The scenes I won’t spoil, though the cage fighting at the end is brilliant and should have you in floods of tears. Or the part where he tells a terrorist his leader Osama looks like a dirty wizard, it’s just balls out humour that shows people for who they are.
When he tells a women he wants to uses her child in an ad campaign, she agrees. When he says he wants to dress her child as a Nazi pushing a Jew in to an oven, she agrees (just so her daughter becomes famous)

The problem with this movie lies with the main character. Ali G was an idiot, he would get his words wrong, he loved his gran and his Juile and you loved him for that.
Borat was child like and in awe at what he was seeing so you didn’t mind when he did something shocking.
You loved him for it.
Bruno on the other hand has one main goal and that is to be famous. In the movie he tries to make a sex tape just to be famous, he chats to the stars, he starts a fight, he buys a black baby, all to get famous and in a world of Paris Hilton etc it’s sick to see.

But, when Bruno is not trying to be famous, and when he is trying to become straight that is when the movie comes alive. When he goes shooting with a group of hunters and crawls in to one of their tents naked is over the top and very funny.
Or when he interviews a certain Amercian Idol judge who says she 'loves human rights' while she sits on a chair Bruno has given her which is a real life Mexican man.
I won’t give the rest away as it is a shocking movie you have to see.

Brilliant.

8/10

Not quite as good as Borat, and not as funny as The Hangover.

In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard in the incredible and true story of legendary Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger (Depp), the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Bale), and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.

This could have been one of the greatest movies ever told. He had all the right ingredients for a classic cinematic movie that would stand the test of time. Michael Mann who did great work directing Heat, Collateral among just a few. It also stars Christian Bale and Johnny Depp. The former being the dark moody character actor who likes to get under the skin of the person he is portraying, and the former being the worlds most likable star with his kooky and sometimes quite bizarre roles.
Sadly this movie misses the mark so many times that it leans more towards being a turkey then an actual classic.

While epic sweeping movies such as The Godfather, Raging Bull, and the Goodfellas (to name just a few) can be told over the course of many hours, you can forgive them for being so long because they have a gripping and intriguing story to tell. They are also, most of the time, based on books or real life stories. This is based on a book which is based on real life events.
While some directors and writers like to spread the fiction in to true stories to add more tension to the plot or maybe add a few more action events, Mann keeps this pretty close to
the real story.

This is his main flaw.

The story is really interesting. A 1930’s setting for a Robin Hood like character to steal from the banks and give to the poor. He was hailed as a great hero among the public. Dillinger was maverick who was liked by everyone, even the bank workers he stole from. Even the police and law firms liked him for his slick and quick ways of robbing a bank and giving the money back to the people. But, in this film we never get to see any of this. Depp plays him with all the cockiness and cool manner you want and expect, but the film never gets under his skin and sees what makes him tick. All we see is the few glimpses of humor and a blood thirsty gangster. He doesn’t mind, or at least shows no remorse when innocent people are killed during his crime wave. Considering this is the guy who the public adore and he respects back doesn’t make to much sense. And, while this is no Sparrow, Wonka, Wood, or even Brasco Johnny Depp still plays him well.
Well, he comes across better then the boring Bale. Christian Bale is in his third movie in a row where he is the good guy getting out acted by the bad guys. First in The Dark Knight, then Terminator and now this. Sure, he plays the role Purvis well, the FBI agent trying to track him down. He just doesn’t get to do to much except look bored and look motionless.
The great fiction stories of agent after suspect are often played better when they have interaction between the two, be in The Fugitive or the second season of Prison Break. Two people from different sides of the law trying to get their job done.
Here they don’t get much screen time, it lets the whole film down. I know it’s a true story but I needed more.

Though more of this film and I would have fallen asleep. It moves along at such a slow pace you just want Depp to drink some rum and swagger around making this an enjoyable romp.
The supporting cast are good, but we never really get to know them. It’s also a little confusing in places due to Depp’s gang losing and gaining more men throughout the movie, and vice versa with Bale’s gang.

The Road to Perdition with Tom Hank’s had a similar and much more exiting pace and style to it. I’d recommend that.

The film is very weak and let down by the pace.

I guess sometimes sticking to the real life events isn’t always a good thing. Maybe someone should consider that next time they watch an Oliver Stone movie.

Not even Depp can save this yawm through film

3/10

19 years ago Take That were playing to Gay clubs and school halls.
17 years ago Take That played to arenas and got their first of 11 number one singles with the song Pray.
16 years ago Take That played a European tour which took them all over Europe ending in there Manchester home town
15 years ago Take That release there biggest selling hit Back For Good and get ready for another massive tour.
That same year one of them leaves due to drug related problems and distancing himself from a band that he felt were massive yet never cool.
14 years ago Take That split. A special helpline was set up for the millions of upset girls.
For the next ten years they all tried different solo things. Some didn’t go as well as others. The one that got away first though became the biggest selling solo artist ever. Selling more albums, more singles, more concert tickets, more merchandise, and winning more awards then any other solo artist in Europe (out that against Bowie, Colins, Richard, Elton John, the solo acts from The Beatles etc it’s impressive). He sold out three nights at Knebworth to 375,000 people. The biggest in the country and still it is un beaten. During his Knebworth show’s he dedicated his song No Regrets to Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange.
5 years ago there was a Take That documentary.
A year later Take That, minus the one who’d left a year before they split, reformed. It should have, for all intense purposes been a disaster. They are in the later half of their thirties. They won’t be able to dance, they won’t sound good. It will be a desperate bid to sell a even newer greatest hits package.
It was brilliant. Owen, Barlow, Donald, Orange did sell out arenas to mass sell out crowds. All the dance movements were there, they sounded great. They were brilliant. In fact, they were modern.
A year later they released a new album which was a belter. They all took writing credit, instead of just Barlow. They went on tour and they were even better.
Now with a new album The Circus they finished their third tour in five years at Wembley Stadium.
The boys did good.
To see 86 thousand people clapping to Never Forget is a testament of their power.
The truth is though they needed to split up in 96. They needed to get away and be forgotten.

This is my manly review of seeing Take That at Wembley stadium……

After good support acts from Gary Go and Lady Gaga the boys arrived at 8.30pm. The lights didn’t go down, there was no ‘and here’s the band’ on the speaker. Just a small quite circus show slowly building up with gentle music over the top. The anticipation was at a high from all the women around me.
On a side note it’s great to see a lot more men at the concerts. When they reformed it was me, a gay guy and 40 thousand women. Nice to see a higher ratio.
The balloons on the B- stage flew away and Gary, Mark, Howard and Jason stood on the stage and burst in to Greatest Day.

SET LIST
Greatest Day
Hello
Could it be Magic
Pray
A Million Love Songs
Back For Good

Now Take That are not old as people, but for a band (ex boy band now man band) they are. They are beginning their late 30's/40's and you wonder where they get their engery from. From wiggerling their hips in Could It Be Magic and swinging from side to side in Pray.
But, it never looks wrong or like a dad dancing. This is a proper show and proper moves. Plus they still have sex appeal. The fans who loved them in the 90's, the young girls who loved their boyish good looks have grown up as well. The girls turned women nows need real men to stare at and wish they were the boys...sorry, mens wifes.

All on the B stage. Cracking out some boy band moves from days gone, and getting soaked by the water machine for Back For Good.
Then a plastic elephant appeared to carry them to the main stage.

As the plastic elephant, with people inside moving the legs like it was walking, moved to the stage we got the glimpse of a women with long hair hung upside down on the elephant's backside like a tail.

After a costume change they picked up instruments to prove they can play guitars, drums and pianos.

Set List cont-
the Garden
Shine
Up All Night
Wooden Boat
How Did It Come to This
Love Aint Here Any More / Babe / Nobody Else (Gary Piano Solo)
The Circus

What is Love
Do What You Like / It Only Takes a Minute / Take That and Party
Said It All

Then they changed in to clown make up and suits and did a funny melody of Take That hits. Donald, Orange and Owen rode uni cycles, while Gary came out in a clowns small bike shouting to the audience he couldn’t ride the uni cycles.

Set List cont-
Never Forget
Patience
Relight My Fire

One of the great things about Take That is they are not afraid to play their old hits. Relight My Fire, Never Forget etc fit in well with the new stuff.
And then the clown/old Take That hits melody is a tongue in cheek to the days of lycra and bum wiggerling. They know that their first ever single, which got to 98 in the charts, Do What You Like is horrble. But, playing it is just a sign that they love to make you smile. It's done without the cheese.

One of the great things about Take That now is they all do singing. Gary has the love songs, and the more disco tech songs. He's voice soulful and pure pop.
Mark has the kooky cheerful songs such as Shine and the fanatsic Hold Up The Light.
Howard who only sung Never Forget back in the days sings alot more and has the nicest voice out of the lot. He also has the best song of the night, a beuitful poetic song called What Is Love?
Then Jason, who only sung in the background when they were first around. He was more the dancer. But with songs such as Wooden Boat and the fantasic How Did It Come To This? he has the story telling songs.
I feel that on their next record, which is rumoured for next year, they may need to change things around a bit before they come a little samey and still. Maybe gives Donald or Orange a single.

A round of hits and cracking encore proved that they can hold their own in a stadium.

Encore:
Hold Up A Light
Rule The World

Towards the end they all look caught up in how this moment is treating them. From being the biggest band to being alone, with out music contracts and watching other boy bands form, then coming back to mass appeal and perfoming in front of 86,000 people. They look touched by the responce and how they have been treated.

Fire works, trapeze artists, clowns, water canons, fire, dance moves, drummers, everything in a circus was there. It was a full on show.
Compare it to world wide stars like Spears or (if he had done them) M Jackson who dance and mime their songs, Take That make sure they dance, jump around, have fun while singing LIVE (For Owen this is not always a good thing mind)

As a massive Robbie Williams fan I wouldn’t want him to come back to Take That. But, watching the four guys together it’s very hard to see where William’s would fit in if he did. I can't see Williams doing Could It Be Magic dance moves, plus it would be wrong for him to sing on the songs the band has made since he left/sacked/walked out/got bored of (or whatever William's reasons are on his ever changing moods.
The truth is the reason the others didn’t make it as solo stars is their songs were to Take That sounding, and they don’t have the ego or the presence to be alone. As a group they are brilliant, so tight together and having great fun. Doing fab shows and writing hits.
Williams could never go from what he has to being with them. It would ruin the dynamic.
With a new album by Robbie in September and a tour next year Robbie needs to do one thing and one thing only, beat Take That.

The thing is Robbie left and Take That failed. Robbie goes to rest in LA and goes out the spot light and get rid of his demons, Take That reform and become the new nations sweethearts.
Can Robbie and Take That work on their own things but still be in the same charts, can both work together at the same time. Can there only be one winner? Maybe.

Robbie is the best entertainer, though his last tour he let himself down due to his weirdness of aliens and his on going battle with his inner demons. But, he has proved he doesn’t need Take That.
Take That, now a proper reformed band with own songs and style have just proved they don’t need the one that left...

9/10
Make no mistakes. This isn't Oasis, Rolling Stones, this is Take That who put on a proper over blown show. They sing live. They can still pull out dance moves. They are funny. And by the look on their faces and the people who stood around me watching is awe they and us want they to stick around for some time

They will forever remain the come back kings and long may they reign...........

Rapper The Game is reportedly in the running to play Sgt. Bosco "BA" Baracus in the A-Team movie.

Citing a "highly reliable source in the entertainment industry", website Blackfilm has claimed that The Game, real name Jayceon Taylor, is being lined up to take on the role made famous by Mr T in the popular '80s TV series. Common and Tyrese Gibson have previously been rumoured for the part.

The Game, 29, has acted in the 2006 film Waist Deep and last year's Keanu Reeves police drama Street Kings.

The A-Team is scheduled to being production in August under the direction of Joe Carnahan. Liam Neeson will play Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, while The Hangover's Bradley Cooper has signed up to star as Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck.

Here is the first look at the new Ricky Gervais movie, co written and directed by himself and a guy named Matthew Robinson.

The Invention Of Lying is set in a world where no one has ever lied. Gervais will play a performer who tells the first lie and harnesses its power for personal gain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOtGpW2qrc

It looks okay. It may be his best film yet, but it doesn't look like his best work.

He needs to stop playing the main roles though as it's going to get boring and all the great work he did in The Office will be ruined.

If you combine the talents of Jack Black, who was brilliant in The School Of Rock. Michael Cera, who was brilliant in Juno. Paul Rudd who was brilliant in I Love You Man. Hank Azaria who was brilliant in Night At The Museum, and put them in a film which is co-written with two of the writers from the fantastic The Office USA and Harold Rammis who wrote and directed the amazing and clever (and very funny) iconic movie Groundhog Day, add to the fact he also co-wrote and stared in Ghostbusters 1 and 2 you should…in theory have a fantastic movie that should wipe all other comedies out of view.

Oh dear.

How wrong could you be?

As it turns out the answer is ‘very’.

PLOT- Two cavemen wander around and over act.

I’d seen the trailer a few times and could tell it was going to be rubbish, but for the sake of people saying “well if you haven’t seen the actual movie how do you know it’s bad”.
Well know I can be totally honest.

Given that I didn’t even bother to do a proper ‘plot’ section may give you some idea how I felt about this movie. To give it some credit I did smirk at a few lines that were said in the movie. But, I doubt the writers, cast and crew set out to make a movie that people just smirked at some bits.
The film is over long, washed with set ups for gags that filter away, and moves along at a slow pace. It’s shocking how this kind of talent in the movie was so badly used.
Jack Black must have of a bad day when he accepted to make this. I mean, the premise isn’t even that good. It’s not one of those movies where you go ‘oh the premise was good but the film was rubbish’ the whole thing was just an embarrassing mess. To give Black his credit he does try he best at the start, but when the film starts to deal with actual plot a messy script and bad adlibbing destroys any chance he has of coming out of this with his head held high. But, he gets of very lightly compared with his on screen side kick.
Michael Cera is crap.
Is that to rude? Well, maybe…but, he is total crap. I have watched Cera in the under rated American sitcom Arrested Development were he played the part of the kooky teenager down to a tee. Then stared in Juno where he was really good as a kooky puppy dogged eyed teenager. He was also good in Superbad as the kooky puppy dogged eyed teenager. In Nick and N…I think you get the idea. If not I will spell it out…Cera only plays the same looking and acting part in all his movies. He used to do them so good but now he plays Black’s sidekick with the same boring tones and he has lost any of the magic which made him a star in the first place. I enjoyed him in Juno and AD because he would drag out lines and do a shifty awkward look away and still be cute. But, in this he is just crap. I mean awful. He drags out lines and adlibs to still look cool, but he fails. Plain crap. He is not, and can not be the person he wishes he was…Bill Murrey.
Talking of the ex Ghostbusters, Rammis has a bit part but he looks so old and fat that you wonder why he gave himself an on screen role. Maybe if he stayed behind the camera and worked on a decent script then maybe it would have been better.

The script just doesn’t have the power punch needed for this type of movie. The reason people like Black, Cera, Rudd and Rammis do funny comedy is because they know their cult history and add lines in that are relevant today, and do impression of other movies/shows/comics, most the time being in jokes. But, being set in year one they can’t do any of that as it’s set way before any cult references can be made.

I’m going to keep this review short (un like the movie) and just tell you not to see it.

It’s rubbish and when I watch a comedy I don’t just want to smirk I want to laugh.

This left me a little numb

Ghostbusters’s 3 better be good or I’m coming after you Rammis and I won’t stop at just angry words…

YEAR ONE

2/10

Johnny Depp has admitted that he would be open to playing the Riddler in a future Batman movie.

The Public Enemies star, who was first linked to the iconic role last year, told MTV News that he would be interested in exploring the character.

"If the opportunity came, I'd definitely juggle it. I always liked the Riddler," he said.

"I always liked Frank Gorshin. Frank Gorshin was brilliant. I always thought he was a great actor."

His Public Enemies co-star Christian Bale, who starred in last year's The Dark Knight, added that while he is an admirer of Depp's work, the decision would ultimately rest with the movie's director.

"I think he's a wonderful actor, and I think he could achieve that greatly, but I'm not the man to ask," he said.

****

While I think he is a great actor I would like to see someone who hasn't hit the mainstream yet, ala Heath Ledger.
I liked the rumour that David Hyde Piece was set to play the Riddler, yes as in the guy who played Niles in Fraiser.

They need to play the riddeler really dark and more likeKevin Spacy's role in Seven. Maybe not even revealing the Ridder's true persona untill the end.

"If it ain't broke then don't fix it" is a saying been around for years, and gather it's a saying that is tattooed on to Tim Burton's arms.
But, the truth is Johhny Depp, Chris Lee, Burton's wife Bonham Carter are all great actors so why not keep using them.

"Disney has unveiled the first images from Tim Burton's eagerly-awaited Alice In Wonderland adaptation. Taking place several years after the original Lewis Carroll tale, the movie sees Alice (newcomer Mia Wasikowska) follow the White Rabbit into Wonderland, a place she has no recollection of visiting a decade earlier. Alice In Wonderland opens in cinemas on March 5, 2010."

The pictures look every bit as good as the pictures for Charlie and The Choclate factory which was also directed by Burton and starred...actaully, there's not alot of point me saying who it starred.

The plot though seem strange...the bwhole story is, but it's the change to the normal story told. Alice goes back to Wonderland and doesn't remember. Seems pointless, though I'm sure it will make good sense when we see it.

He's the snaps.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/a161599/first-look-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland.html

It looks great, if a little 'seen that before in Burton movies' but if someones going to direct this kind of story it may as well be the him