Best of 2010: Actress in a Supporting Role

Who We Are: Josh

Hello, my name is Josh. In between eating and sleeping, two quite important activities in my life, I like to watch the occasional film. After watching a film I have been known to enjoy sounding off about them and this website is a great forum to do just that. On the occasion I do leave the screen I enjoy socialising with friends, preferably over a alcoholic beverage as well as indulging my rather large appetite. A great film should have engaging characters, a well written script and a griping plot but anything with Jennifer Aniston in will do.
  

Twitter: @JHEastman

Best of 2010: Actor in a Supporting Role

Who We Are: Dom

Hello, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Dom. Nothing really qualifies me to write about films other than quite liking them. Other things I like are Tabasco sauce, chino trousers, Radiohead and Star Wars. What I value highest in a film is dialogue, strong central performances and an engaging storyline. But the well-implemented zombie, dinosaur, robot or alien is good too. Film nerds are generally a friendly bunch, so feel free to comment on anything I write, telling me what you think, I won't get offended and I'll always respond eventually. But if you insult Blade Runner, I will hunt you down and murder you like a Replicant.  Anyway, hope you enjoy the site. 

Twitter: @DominicJMartin

Spider-Man Reboot Gets 'Amazing' New Name

Filming has begun, and now the Spider-Man reboot has a name. Columbia Pictures announced that it will share the name of the original comic developed by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko back in 1963, The Amazing Spider-Man. The similarities with the original source material won't stop at the name either. Unlike Sam Raimi's recent trilogy, the new film will centre more around Peter Parker's days at high school, balancing his classes in the day with fighting crime at night. Spidey's love interest will not be Mary-Jane Watson, but instead Gwen Stacey, his original girlfriend from the comics. And as clearly shown in the latest picture of provided by the studio (pictures after the jump), the suit will feature mechanical web shooters rather than the biological ones that Tobey Maguire's character possessed. This marks another return to Stan Lee's original creation and perhaps outlines a larger focus on Parker's scientific prowess that was missing from Raimi's films.

Best of 2010: Actress in a Leading Role

Nolan To Make Howard Hughes Biopic After Batman?

In other Nolan-related news, Vulture insists that following the completion of The Dark Knight Rises, the director who resurrected the Batman franchise and brought a whole new blockbuster (Inception) to our screens will move on to a Howard Hughes project. Reportedly, the project was one Nolan had written after Memento, but shelved it when Scorsese's The Aviator was announced to be released in 2004.

It might seem crazy to work on the project with DiCaprio's portrayal of the mogul still relatively fresh in the minds of movie-goers. However, Nolan's script is an adaption of the Michael Drosnin biography Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness which focusses on the latter years of Hughes' life and his descent into OCD-fuelled insanity. In contrast, Scorsese's film was centred more around his formative years and obsession with his Spruce Goose invention.

Considering Nolan's interest in characters with a degree of mental instability, think Cobb in Inception and Leonard in Memento, it's reasonable to think that he'll want to explore the weirdness of a man who spent his final years locked in a hotel room, wearing nothing but a dinner napkin, and fitting an air filtration system to his Chrysler. Supposedly the film will begin production in late 2012 for release in 2014, a decade after The Aviator, to avoid too much comparison.

At this point I'm willing to get excited about anything Nolan is working on, so we'll keep a close eye on any developments in this project.