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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 5th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Scream 4, Demi Moore, Angela Bassett and someone will finally be Spider-Man

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Undoubtedly the biggest casting news of the week was the appointment of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in the all-new upcoming Spider-Man franchise reboot, being directed by Marc Webb. THR revealed the second biggest (potential) casting news of the week: Meryl Streep may be signing on to star in the biopic...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 5th, 2010 | View Comments

10 sports movies I am watching instead of the FIFA World Cup

So, the FIFA World Cup 2010 is on, and while Australia’s Socceroos crumbled to yet another dismal early-exit from the tournament, I’ve decided to re-watch some of my favourite sporting movies instead of enduring what remains of the event. After all, the running time for a lot of films is pretty close to a single game of soccer. I might just tune in to the final. Note: I’m not saying these...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 4th, 2010 | View Comments

Reel Short: SON OF A DON

Student films are often drab, dramatic affairs with plenty of cinematic value but not much bang for their buck. Herbert James Winterstern’s project as part of his studies at SCU (School of Cinema University of Southern California) turns that trend on its head. Son Of A Don, a funny, stylistic and enjoyable short film shot entirely on the robust RED camera. Clearly inspired by Scorsese’s...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 3rd, 2010 | View Comments

NOWHERE BOY review: all you need is love

It’s hard to know what to expect from a film about one of the world’s greatest musical geniuses that will never actually show an inkling of his fame and fortune. It takes some serious balls to make a film about John Lennon and not mention The Beatles. Indeed, the director of Nowhere Boy has no balls: she’s a woman. Sam Taylor-Wood has bravely delivered a wonderfully rounded film about a rock icon in her...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 2nd, 2010 | View Comments

LET ME IN trailer looks like just another vampire movie

2008′s Let The Right One In stood out as a must-watch horror film that delivered the kind of storytelling I’d prefer to see happening in the genre. It was a perfectly crafted film from start to finish, masterfully paced, performed and directed. It was a breath of fresh air in a genre that has lost its way and become predictably stale… But Let The Right One In didn’t come from...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 1st, 2010 | View Comments

EASY A poster: Emma Stone is a cheap, easy, floozy tramp biting her lip

The typical formula for a teen comedy involves a group of guys trying to get laid, usually with some kind of bet to see who can have sex first. So, what if we tried to swap genders? Wouldn’t the resulting film involve ladies trying to score the hottest guys in school? Nah! We all saw how The House Bunny turned out. Cast one hottie and call her an adulteress (hence the title, Easy A) because she scores...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Like, OMG, the RANGO trailer actually made me laugh

I had no idea what to expect. The only clues I had were that Rango was an animated film starring a silly-looking green lizard voiced by Johnny Depp. I mean, what else is there to know? It is also voiced by Australia’s own Isla Fischer along with Bill Nighy, and directed by Gore Verbinski, the same man who brought us those Pirates of the Caribbean films– hey, they starred Johnny Depp, too!! …...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 1st, 2010 | View Comments

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2′s studio-funded teaser trailer

The first Paranormal Activity gained notoriety by using a viral campaign to get audiences demanding the indie film in their cities, selling a whole bunch of tickets in the process. Similar viral techniques were first used by another successful horror film in back in 1999, The Blair Witch Project. Both were shot independently on next-to-nothing-budgets, and both were picked up by studios for widespread...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 30th, 2010 | View Comments

5NAL DESTINATION: it’s not what it looks like!

Maybe I spend too much time surfing the net for unsavory things in my spare time and, as a result, have become accustomed to seeing a certain word whenever associated letters are used… When I first read that Warner Brothers were changing the name of the fifth Final Destination film to 5nal Destination, I honestly thought the franchise was finally going all-out adult erotica. Surely this is a stupid...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 28th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Willis, Gweneth Paltrow, Neil Patrick Harris

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Variety reckons Matt Damon is in talks to join Cameron Crowe’s Zoo, based on Benjamin Mee’s bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Damon would play Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Intense action ensues. Moviehole recently talked with Major League...
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