CRIMSON PEAK TEASER TRAILER

The first official teaser trailer for Crimson Peak has finally surfaced, the highly anticipated movie of a  majorly star studded cast will surely exceed expectations when it is released later in the year. Crimson Peak stars Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, Mia Wasikowska, and Burn Gorman.

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds...and remembers.

NEIGHBOURS SEQUEL ANNOUNCEMENT

Fans of the Neighbours can rejoice over the fact that a sequel is in the works, which will star the main trio Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne and Zac Efron who'll team up to defeat the neighbouring sorority. 

Universal is moving forward with a follow-up to its hugely successful comedy from last summer that will reunite all of the major principals. 

The studio will give the sequel a wide release May 13, 2016 -- a date the studio was holding for a different R-rated comedy that it had yet to name.

BRAIN ON FIRE CAST ANNOUNCEMENT

Will Poulter is finally receiving the recognition he deserves, with the success of We're The Millers and The Maze Runner, Poulter has been cast alongside Dakota Fanning in Brain On Fire, which is being directed by Gerard Barrett who coincidently directed Poulter in Glassland. Brain On Fire is a movie adaptation of the bestselling memoirs by Susannah Cahalan chronicling her descent into insanity.

Brain on Fire is being produced by Charlize Theron, Beth Kono and A.J. Dix for their Denver and Delilah shingle and Rob Merilees for Foundation Features.

LOST RIVER TRAILER #2

Earlier this month a new trailer for Lost River was released, which is known to be Ryan Gosling's highly anticipated directional debut. Lost River contains an exceptionally talented cast such as Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan, Eva Mendes, and Matt Smith.

A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

LIVE ACTION BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CAST ANNOUNCEMENT

The rumours have finally been set straight when it was reported by The Hollywood Reporter last month that Emma Watson has officially been cast as Belle in the live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, which will be directed by Bill Condon, the mastermind behind Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2.

Emma Watson is joining Disney's live-action version of Beauty and the Beast as the lead character Belle, the studio said on Monday.

The film will be directed by Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 and Part 2) and is set to begin production in 2015. No release date has been announced.

However most recently another rumour has been floating around that Ryan Gosling is in the lead for the role of Beast, though no announcements have been made as of yet.

I’m hearing that Ryan Gosling is Disney’s top choice to star in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and has been offered the role. The part that Gosling is being courted for is the Beast himself. The film will be a live-action remake of the 1991 animated Disney classic. This version will also be a musical, likely keeping the original’s beloved musical numbers intact.

MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN TRAILER #2

The second trailer for Men, Women & Children was released earlier this week, with this trailer we get more insight about the characters in the film. It stars, Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler, Ansel Elgort, Will Peltz, Judy Greer, and Kaitlyn Dever.

A look at the sexual frustrations that young teenagers and adults face in today's world.

TWO NIGHT STAND TRAILER

Miles Teller is having quite a busy year with all these new releases and of course filming the rebooted Fantastic Four franchise and shooting the Divergent sequel Insurgent. Two Night Stand looks like a fun rom-com which are really hard to find as some are just over the top cheesy and too predictable. It stars Miles Teller, Analeigh Tipton, Jessica Szohr, and Leven Rambin.

A snowstorm forces two people who made an online connection to unwillingly extend their one-night stand.

HORNS TRAILER

The first official trailer of Horns has hit the web, which looks insanely brilliant and definitely a must see. Horns is a book to movie adaptation, which stars Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple and written by Joe Hill, the son of the legendary writing mastermind Stephen King.

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD TRAILER

As most of you know I've been following Dakota Fanning's career since Taken (2002) and she's also one of my favourite actresses. So when I heard about this upcoming film, The Last Of Robin Hood, I've been keeping a look out for the release of the trailer, which finally came out earlier this week.

The last days in the life of legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn.

DUMB AND DUMBER TO TRAILER

The official trailer for Dumb and Dumber To has been released with Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprising their roles as Lloyd and Harry embarking on a new adventure.

20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.

KILL THE MESSENGER TRAILER

I always look forward to see Jeremy Renner's work, so when the trailer for his latest film came out this week I had to watch it straight away. Kill The Messenger is a very intriguing film and the fact that its based on a true story interests me even more, so I'll definitely add this film on my 'to see at the cinema' list. It stars Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Sheen, Ray Liotta, and Barry Pepper.

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.

ANNIE TRAILER

The latest trailer for this years remake of Annie was released earlier this week, it stars Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Rose Byrne, and Quvenzhané Wallis. This trailer has yet to show any of the cast members sing, so I'm not exactly sure how different this version of Annie will be compared to the original. But with most remakes nowadays they tend to modernise it for its intended target audience, so there might actually be unexpected outbursts of song.

Business tycoon and mayoral candidate Benjamin Stacks launches a campaign to take in Annie, a young girl who has been living with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan since her parents left her as a baby.

THE EQUALISER TRAILER

Denzel Washington stars in yet another action movie titled The Equaliser, from the trailer it looks like another generic action movie where the protagonist saves the victim from their captors. Though I could be wrong as some movies from this genre are very deceiving and turn out to be a very good movie. But I still have mixed reviews on this one so I may wait for when its released on DVD, what do you think?

A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA TRAILER

For any fans of Kristen Stewart or Chloe Grace Moretz I can announce that the official trailer of Clouds Of Sils Maria starring the two was released during Cannes Film Festival. I believe it has quite a few mixed reviews already but that is because of the harsh critics down at Cannes. What do you think? Is it a hit or will you give it a miss when it comes out later this year?

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of Sigrid, and maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.

Godzilla | Potential Spoilers

I've been following this movie ever since it hit development, Godzilla was one of my most memorable TV shows I used to watch back in the day, though I may have not watched any of the previously made Godzilla films I knew this one would top them all.

Fifteen years ago an earthquake in Japan ruptured a nuclear power plant killing everyone in its wake, caused by the hazardous radiation leakage which is now a quarantined area. Now back to the present, Ford Brody is forced to (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) bail out his dad, Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston), out of jail in Japan. Joe had tried to break into the quarantined area to gain access to files, proof that what happened fifteen years ago was covered up, which are stored at his now desecrated home. Now with the help of his reluctant son, who thinks he's obsessively crazy, break into the quarantined area yet again to get these files once and for all and to prove to the public that they're not being told the whole truth. When they reach the compound they find the files but in doing so they have alerted the onsite guards, who bring them to the site that was once previously the nuclear power plant but that has now since been rebuilt. There they witness the birth of a gigantic creature that destroys the entire compound and flees off into the night sky, the time to save humanity from this destruction begins now with the help of Joe's theories and Ford's specialist training.

Of course I had high expectations for Godzilla and it sure did exceed those expectations, I was constantly on the edge of my seat held on the suspense of how the events would play out. Not once was I able to predict what would happen next, which was refreshing as most movies nowadays you can aways predict what is about to come from a mile away. I'm glad the trailers gave us a hint of what to expect and kept the mystery surrounding Godzilla hidden, keeping the audience blind from what they would be anticipating leaving them in suspense throughout the whole of the movie.

I surprised that Aaron Taylor-Johnson had a large chunk of screen time as from viewing the trailer we see him a few times, however it is Bryan Cranston that appears to have more screen time in the trailer than the actual movie. It was weird seeing Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen as an onscreen couple seeing as they play onscreen twins in Avengers: Age of Ultran, which is due to their evident chemistry. I really wish we had more screen time of those two but there's always Godzilla round two and of course the Avengers sequel.

The sound effects of Godzilla's ear shocking roar was marvellous, the sound team did a very good job recreating one of the most iconic roars in movie history.

I saw a few comments floating around on Twitter earlier saying that it was even better than Transformers, in a sense I understand where they're coming from as both Godzilla and Transformers share similar themes, where these unidentified lifeforms are perceived as the bad guys who are causing havoc on earth. Though if we were to stand back to look at the bigger picture we would see these lifeforms are protecting humanity from the real monsters that are set to destroy us.

Knowing that they've set Godzilla as a potential franchise is great news as the reviews have been nothing but positive, so we may get some future instalments if the stories right. Plus as of now Godzilla has had one of the best box office openings of this year so far, so it is unlikely to flop even though many people assumed so.

I had an inkling at the end that Godzilla would survive from his injuries due to the fact that if he can withstand nuclear he can withstand anything.

I definitely recommend that you go see Godzilla as soon as possible, it is now one of my most favourite films of 2014 so far and it could be yours too.

*****

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I saw Godzilla on Friday 16th May at my local cinema.
As always this is an honest review.