So MovieCon has been going on this weekend on London’s Southbank.
Here is a round up of all the news you need to know!
Marvel gave us Brits the first play of the footage from the forthcoming releases of Thor, Captain America and The Avengers.
A preview of forthcoming relelase Monsters dubbed as the next District 9 but which shows much more promise than that. Gareth Edwards the man at the helm also held a Q and A where he dubbed the project an attempt at a ‘road movie for aliens’
Check the trailer out here… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7o7YMvKZtw
A sneak preview of Ryan Teynolds new movie ‘Buried’
Extended clip of ‘The Voyage of Dawn Treader’ an adventure movie soon to be hitting the big screen.
3D also got it’s fair share of screen time with features including Saw in 3D and The Hole in 3D.
For a complete roundup please visit: http://www.empireonline.com/movie-con/
Much like when Phonebooth was announced a few eyebrows were raised at the idea of a one man movie set entirely in a coffin under the ground.
This Rodrigo Cortes offering however clears away any misconceptions about a one man movie not being enough to hold an audience.
The opening few minutes of total darkness, stammering distressed breaths and screams of confusion make for harrowing viewing and as the movie progresses and the light gradually becomes more through lighters, phones, glowsticks and the story unfolds.
Paul Conroy we soon discover is Buried in order for his kidnappers to extract ransom money from the American Governments. The truck driver working in Iraq is buried alive and ordered to make videos for his kidnappers to post online and draw attention to themselves and their demand for 1 million dollars.
Armed with a mobile his desperate and frustrating attempt to escape his underground hell begins with a series of unsuccessful phone calls to monotone disembodied call centre voices, who, ignorant to his plight place him on hold, leaving us to despair at the hold music with him. Following this are emotional phone calls to family and loved ones, threats from his captors, information from a hostage specialist and a horrific and mortifying example of capitalism at it’s coldest and most treacherous.
Ryan Reynold’s one man show is a real feat. To hold an audience without any space to physically move more than a few inches at a time and only a phone to contact the world is something I was not sure was possible. The suspense that builds through his fluctuations between total panic, nostalgia, and moments of erie calm are truly brilliant. The direction of focus on the tiniest of movements and expressions will have you wincing along and your breath shortening as the time begins to run out for our captive protagonist.
During the first few minutes the panic Reynolds portrays at discovering he was buried alive literally had me squirming and feeling somewhat claustrophobic. The suspense of his will he won’t he escape is almost unbearable and yet compelling.
A real must see.
