Today, BNV launched a new website to recruit personnel from around the globe for its Extreme Environment Mission Operations. To date, over 15,000 recruits have invested in Brave New Ventures; the secret expedition will launch on 1st June in a central London location. The recruitment centre is now open at www.bravenewventures.org Our aim to bring about...

A new featurette with Charlize Theron talking about her character Meredith Vickers.

Brad Pitt’s new film goes against the Hollywood trend of having a poster featuring poorly photoshopped pics of the actors involved and instead goes the minimalist route. I think it works rather well. The films also stars Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Richard Jenkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy, Bella Heathcote and Sam...

Quite a few of you out there will have seen David Fincher’s The Game. That’s the film where Michael Douglas gets enrolled in a sort of role playing game for his birthday. He then cancels it, but his life then goes further and further down the rabbit hole as strange things happen. I mention this as odd things have been happening on the web....

A couple of weeks ago I was watching Return of the Magnificent Seven. It got me thinking about who could you cast from todays crop of actors if they made another version of The Seven Samurai. I posted the question on the Live for Films Facebook page. There were quite a few suggestions along with many “Why remake it?” My suggestions for a new...

Joaquin Phoenix stars alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master. This is Joaquin’s first role since his fake retirement a while back. In this clip he appears to be back in the zone as he is spooky and chilling. A charismatic intellectual (Hoffman) launches a faith-based organization following World War II. A drifter (Phoenix) becomes his...

Comic book writer, Mark Andrew Smith, dropped me a line to share some news about his new comic book Sullivan’s Sluggers. It looks fantastic. Here is a bit about it. Sullivan’s Sluggers’ is a mash-up of two classic American genres: baseball and horror. What would an All-American athlete do when faced with the prospect of a ghastly death?...

The Sapphires is set in the heady days of the late ’60s when four young, talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission, are discovered by an unlikely talent scout. Plucked from obscurity and branded as Australia’s answer to The Supremes, The Sapphires grasp the chance of a lifetime when they’re offered their first real gig –...

Live for Film and HiFi-Tower have joined forces to offer one lucky reader a surround speaker system! Ultra-compact with 40 Watts RMS power, these Auna speakers will bring your home cinema to life. The speaker system can be hooked up to DVD and Blu-Ray players with a 5.1 connection. The set can also be run in 2.1 mode to connect to computers, CD players and...

Principal photography has begun on LAST DAYS ON MARS starring Liev Schreiber (Salt, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) alongside Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer, An Education), Romola Garai (One Day, Atonement), Elias Koteas (Shutter Island, Crash), Tom Cullen (Weekend), Goran Kostic (In the Land of Blood and Honey, Taken) and Johnny Harris (Snow White and the...