Piranha 3DD!
O.M.G!
Could this be an even greater splatter/titties/gore/cheeseball fest than the first one??… [More...]
NZ International Film Festival dates announced + 3 titles
The dates for this years NZ International Film Festival have been announced this morning.… [More...]
First announcement for NZ Film Festival made – KLOWN
Ant Timpson made the first announcement for this years NZ International Film Festival – KLOWN
In what critics are hailing as “the funniest movie of the year!” (IFC), KLOWN follows two wildly inappropriate friends — played by celebrated international comedians Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen — as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through endless awkward confrontations and unspeakable debaucheries. Hopelessly wrongheaded Frank “kidnaps” the 12-year-old nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his… [More...]
HBO’s new comedy Girls
The new HBO comedy Girls (created by Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture)) just started screening in the States (April 15th) has just been renewed for a second season despite modest ratings so far. But watching the trailer for it (below) it looks totally hilarious. Check it out!… [More...]
Brand new PROMETHEUS movie trailer released
Prometheus is set about thirty years prior to Ridley Scott’s Alien and follows the crew of the spaceship Prometheus in the late 21st century, as they explore an advanced alien civilization in search of the origins of humanity.
Check this out – I saw it on the weekend at Gold Class in 3D when I went to see (the awesome fun that was) The Avengers – the brand new trailer….
In Cinemas 7 June 2012. So. Freaking. Excited.… [More...]
FRINGE returns for a fifth and final season
FOX has picked up FRINGE for a fifth and final 13-episode season, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.
“FRINGE is a remarkably creative series that has set the bar as one of television’s most imaginative dramas. Bringing it back for a final 13 allows us to provide the climactic conclusion that its passionate and loyal fans deserve,” said Reilly “The amazing work the producers, writers and the incredibly talented cast and crew have… [More...]
Celebrity Juice hits NZ TV (on new Freeview Channel CHOICE)
So CHOICE TV launches this weekend on Freeview Channel 12 and each day of the week is dedicated to a different aspect of stuff and life and shit.
(That wasn’t how they put it in the press release)*
Cheese on Toast had a quick look at their TV Guide on their website and then got distracted by watching Celebrity Juice on Youtube – which screens on Choice on Saturday at 10pm.
Once described as “Shooting Stars on crack”, Celebrity Juice… [More...]
Super City gets green light for US
The TV3 series, Super City, starring Madeline Sami, directed by Taika Waititi has been picked up by the US ABC network.… [More...]
GAME OF THRONES – in 16bit!
Need to catch up with Season One of Game of Thrones before you start the new season? How awesome is this….
More cool shizzles at www.doctoroctoroc.com… [More...]
Shihad doco film released
You may have already heard that there was a Shihad documentary film in the works – well it’s finished and ready for release.… [More...]
New Prometheus trailer
The second trailer for Director Ridley Scott’s upcoming sci-fi thriller, Prometheus, set in the same universe as the Alien series, something of a prequel to his 1979 Alien, is online…… [More...]
New monthly short film festival hits Kingsland
A new monthly film night is coming to Kingsland – Every third Wednesday of the month Kingsland’s Nectar Bar plays host to Takes: Short Films From Around the Globe.… [More...]
PORTLANDIA starts on NZ TV tonight!
Portlandia starring Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein (ex-Sleater-Kinney and current lead guitarist/singer for Wild Flag) starts screening on NZ TV tonight on TV3 at 10pm (which seems, to my mind, a ridiculous time-slot given it’s target demographic are probably out on a Friday night *sigh*)
But anyway…… [More...]
Watch Trailer for Season 7 of Dr Who
Season seven of BBC’s Dr Who is due to start in the northern hemisphere’s Autumn and screen into 2013. The 14 episode season will see the departure of Amy and Rory Pond and the introduction of a new companion (character name yet to be announced) played by Jenna-Louse Coleman (pictured below), and promises to be “enormous” and “climatic” in its 50 anniversary year.
Watch the trailer here… [More...]
Must Love Cats
All new episodes of Must Love Cats start on Sky’s Animal Planet on Monday 2 April (10.30pm).
Anyone who knows me probably knows that I have a cat and I talk to her like she’s people; so, naturally I am going to love this show.
Presented by a slightly camp John Fulton who insists on singing a particularly shitty song at every opportunity – I watched the first episode on a screener supplied by Sky this week which features a… [More...]
World Cinema Showcase
World Cinema Showcase is coming – Auckland 29 Mar – 11 April / Wellington 5-22 April / Dunedin 19 Apr – 2 May / Christchurch 26 Apr – 9 May
For teh full list of films screening – with screening schedule info etc etc head over to www.worldcinemashowcase.co.nz
Making it’s worldwide premiere at the festival will be Mental Notes – Jim Marbrook’s gently affirmative documentary which recalls the bad old days of mental health care in New Zealand with dismay,… [More...]
MELANCHOLIA comes to DVD and Blu-Ray
The acclaimed Lars von Trier masterpiece Melancholia is coming to DVD and Blue-ray on 26 April via those nut-bags Madmen Entertainment!
Melancholia was the closing film in last years International Film Festival – and blew audiences away.
Interesting factoid : New Zealand was the highest grossing box office territory per head of capita for the film.
Watch the trailer here…
“Justine (Kirsten Dunst, SPIDER-MAN) and Michael (TRUE BLOOD’s Alexander Skarsgård) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the… [More...]
Prometheus Trailer released
The brand new international Prometheus Trailer has been released.
Prometheus opens in Cinemas June 7
“Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human… [More...]
Margin Call trailer
Margin Call opens in NZ cinemas May 10th; it follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Starring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci and more
Nominated for best Original Screenplay at 2012 Academy Awards… [More...]
BBC Synth Britannia
OMG – this looks amazing… I’m watching it as I am posting it – thanks to Simon Grigg who posted it on his excellent Opinionated Diner website.
WATCH THE WHOLE DOCO HERE
1hr 28min
FUN FACT : Phil Oakey told the Sunday Sun that he has a Prince Albert piercing. Which he claimed hurt less than having his ear pierced.… [More...]
Watch JACK WHITE on Saturday Night Live
Jack White performed two songs from his forthcoming debut solo album Bluderbuss on Saturday Night Love on the weekend. For Love Interuption he was backed by an all-female band; and for Sixteen Saltlines he was back by an all-male band.
Watch the performances here:… [More...]
Game of Thrones screens on NZ TV with special advance preview
Just days ago, we posted the new trailer for Season 2 of Game of Thrones. And, with the news that “Winter is coming” have you noticed there actually has been a cold front? And I am convinced it was darker earlier last night. Mother Nature reads Cheese on Toast. Science Fact.… [More...]
Game of Thrones Season 2 “Power and Grace” Trailer
Season 2 of Game of Throne screens in the US of America on Sunday 1st April.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66PDW1Mjf8… [More...]
10 O’Clock Live is back!
The incredibly awesome 10 O’Clock Live is back on UK screens. It’s a live satirical news show that’s both hilarious and smart and the stuff that I dream would screen in New Zealand. It’s presented by Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr, Lauren Laverne and David Mitchell.
Episode one is on You Tube (until someone take’s it down presumably) so watch it now – 42 minutes well spent; I assure you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7RM2u0OvJg… [More...]
Osombie: The Axis of Evil Dead … Osama Bin Ladin is back – as a zombie
The story follows Dusty, a yoga instructor from Colorado, who is on a desperate rescue mission to save her brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama Bin Laden is still alive, despite having been buried at sea.
In Afghanistan, Dusty falls in with a team of NATO Special Forces on a secret assignment. Turns out that Osama has returned from his watery grave and is making an army of zombie terrorists. When the group crashes headlong into the… [More...]
TITANIC mini series from Julian Fellowes
Downton Abbey writer Julian Fellowes has a new 4 part TV mini series to be commence screening in the Uk on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic – in April.
UK’s ITV has promised that viewers will be “taken on a heart-wrenching journey through Titanic’s last hours, as the drama reveals which of the characters they have come to know so well will survive … and who does not”. The mini series will continue with Fellowes formula… [More...]
HOMELAND
Homeland screened on US’s Showtime from Oct to December last year and is about to hit NZ network television on TV3 - screening Mondays at 9.30pm from Feb 13th.
The dramatic thriller centres around a CIA agent Carrie Mathison played, excellently, by Claire Danes who believes that a returned US Marine, Nicholas Brody (played by Damian Lewis), previously assumed dead, who had been held captive by Al-Qaeda as a prisoner of war for eight years, was turned by the enemy and… [More...]
Game of Thrones Season 2 teaser
Cheese on Toast is so so so excited about season two of Game of Thrones starting (in the US) on 1 April. Check out the teaser trailer below…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzXsqoJhtE… [More...]
84th Academy Awards nominations are announced
BEST PICTURE
The Artist
The Descendants
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse
DIRECTING
The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants, Alexander Payne
Hugo, Martin Scorsese
Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Demián Bichir in A Better Life
George Clooney in The Descendants
Jean Dujardin in The Artist
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Brad Pitt in Moneyball
ACTOR… [More...]
