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The man’s formative years were spent flinging his extensive film knowledge in the general direction of willing and unwilling ears and his movies are laced with comments on films, past and present. So who better to stand in front of a room full of attentive film lovers and natter to his heart’s content?

The all-singing all-dancing teen phenomenon that is High School Musical is showing no signs of disappearing any time soon with the announcement of a fourth installment of the franchise currently being written.

Following Simon Pegg’s super-cool performance in the live-wire Brit-cop parody that was last year’s Hot Fuzz, the pressure was on to follow up in his next project with the same writing prowess that made that film so freakin’ good. The resulting film is Run Fatboy Run, a humorous, compact little flick which possesses a slightly different overall style than that of his previous works.

While the Fast and the Furious franchise is preparing to give birth to number 4, one sneaky car enthusiast has been busy playing secret squirrel and has managed to snap a bunch of photos of the hot new cars which are to be featured in the 2009 film.

Even though HD-DVD is dead, it appears that one title is still fighting the good fight…

The Bond 22 screenwriter is apparently not as in touch with Ian Fleming as he once thought.

Finally it is getting a name. Yes, a proper name.

Word is out that one of the unofficial dream teams of modern cinema will reunite once again for the screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Shutter Island.