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Roy Waller (Nicolas Cage) is a conman and trickster who has had to overcome enormous problems with obsessive-compulsive disorder in order to stay on top of his game. His partner in crime, Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell), helps him run a daily business conning housewives out of their money with telephone scams. Frank is frustrated .. Read more

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  Drag Me To Hell

  • 01 Jun 2009

  After too long in the blockbuster business – taking great responsibility for the Spider-Man trilogy – Sam Raimi returns to what he does best: which is being very, very bad. Evil Dead fans are going to flip for this. It’s a mean little shocker and as funny as hell. In her best role since Matchstick Men, Alison Lohman is Christine, a loans officer at a bank. As the posters very succinctly put it: “Christine Brown has a good job, a great boyfriend, and a bright future. But Read more

  

  Lohman jumps in to hellish role

  • 04 Mar 2008

  Matchstick Men and Big Fish star Alison Lohman will replace Ellen Page in the horror film Drag Me To Hell after the Juno actress had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts, according to reports in Tinseltown. Industry bible the Hollywood Reporter says that Lohman, who also voiced Ursula in CGI hit Beowolf, will play a woman who unwittingly becomes the victim of a supernatural curse in the new film. Page reportedly had to drop out of the role because of production delays that pushed the Hell... Read more

  

  Anjelica Huston and Sam Rockwell to Choke

  • 12 Jul 2007

  A new adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel is to star Anjelica Huston and Sam Rockwell, it emerged yesterday. Entitled Choke, it tells the story of a con artist who funds his mother's medical care by deliberately choking in restaurants, all the while being a love addict who finds himself falling for a doctor. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Rockwell is to play the central character with the mother portrayed by Huston. While Rockwell's name may not sound familiar to many, movie fans might... Read more

  

  Cage to star in 9/11 film

  • 12 Jul 2005

  Nicolas Cage is to star in a new film about the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, which Paramount Pictures hopes to release in 2006. Cage, who has won an Oscar for his role in Leaving Las Vegas, and starred in Adaptation and Matchstick Men, will play the role of Sgt John McLoughlin who was trapped in one of the twin towers. McLoughlin, and officer William J Jimeno, are said to be the last two people who were rescued from the rubble after the attacks. The film, which as yet has... Read more

  

  Great Scott!

  • 13 Nov 2008

  Let's try to take the measure of Sir Ridley Scott, who might now be described as Britain's most senior filmmaker, an elder statesman who might be forgiven for putting his feet up and puffing on that favourite cigar in his Provencal retreat. Seventy years old, he's showing no signs of slowing down. In fact quite the opposite – he made ten films between 1977 (his debut, The Duellists) and 1997 (GI Jane), and he's about to embark on his ninth of the new millennium – Nottingham, with... Read more

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