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Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

First images of Natalie Portman in BLACK SWAN

It’s been a while since the filmosphere went bananas over the last Darren Aronofsky flick, so it’s about time he served up a fresh one. This one’s got Natalie Portman in it, and comes with a fascinatingly discombobulated plot synopsis: The dark tale with psychological twists stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a technically brilliant ballerina whose life takes some strange turns after being...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

LET ME IN poster is ironically uninviting

Many words have already been spilled over the perceived superfluity of the Let The Right One In remake Let Me In. What turns me off, though, is the people involved. Sure, Cloverfield was fine, but Matt Reeves isn’t exactly a big-ticket name, so why are they advertising it as such? Then there’s the casting of Kodi Smit-Mcphee and Chloe Moretz in the lead roles: I think they should have cast...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 22nd, 2010 | View Comments

INCEPTION review

You’ve got to love a good old-fashioned rug. Perhaps a woollen one, faded with age, covering the long cold hall and preventing you from freezing your toes off on the way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. It’s not hard to become attached to rugs, especially such ancient, familiar ones; a good rug can be as comforting in the long dark tea-time of the soul as a good towel. Christopher Nolan is not a...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 20th, 2010 | View Comments

The key to making a good trailer: let the movie speak for itself

Trailers are designed to get bums on seats. They are designed to capture your attention, give you a gist of the advertised film’s content, and drill at least one memorable moment into your brain so you’ll remember to go and see the advertised film when it’s released in a couple of months’ time. You will know within seconds of a trailer starting up who the intended audience is. Bright logos and shots of...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 19th, 2010 | View Comments

KNIGHT AND DAY review

Knight And Day is a lot like a James Bond movie told from the perspective of the Bond girl — a very special Bond girl, with an actual personality and more than a skerrick of charisma. Knight And Day is ultimately June’s (Cameron Diaz) story, and as such it easily sidesteps most of the pitfalls of espionage flicks, focusing as it does on the victim rather than the perpetrator. It’s still got its...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 17th, 2010 | View Comments

First image from Zack Snyder’s SUCKER PUNCH promises women, leather and exploitation

Isn’t it enough that a bunch of young ladies is competently kicking ass and saving the world, without dressing like some Fetish Barbie for your titillation? I guess not. I guess nobody would pay to see women do what men do in every single other action movie ever produced; they have to be dolled up and flashing their bodies, too. Because if women aren’t good for eye candy, what are they good...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 16th, 2010 | View Comments

Do we need a live-action movie about Tinkerbell? Yes, but only if it has Elizabeth Banks in it: TINK officially moving ahead

Ah yes, the live-action-remake-of-a-cartoon: we’ve got that awful-looking Beastly coming up soon, we had Enchanted a couple of years back, and now we have Tink to look forward to as well, a movie focusing on mischievous fairy Tinkerbell. Elizabeth Banks is on board to play the eponymous fairy, with producers McG, Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot running the show. I’m still upset with McG for...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 16th, 2010 | View Comments

First trailer for Ben Affleck’s THE TOWN, featuring creepy masks and Blake Lively

Ben Affleck is a good director — surprisingly good, for a guy who made a name for himself appearing in such dross as Armageddon, Gigli and Daredevil. The first trailer for his second feature, The Town, hit overnight, and it is packed to the brim with sharp cinematography, dark performances, and scenes with Blake Lively. I’m not sure how keen I am on the “I kidnapped a bank manager and fell in...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 15th, 2010 | View Comments

I’M STILL HERE: THE LOST YEAR OF JOAQUIN PHOENIX gets a distributer, release date

Last year saw Joaquin Phoenix (the bad guy from Gladiator, Johnny Cash in Walk The Line) do some remarkably strange things. He rapped at some nightclub, falling off the stage mid-performance; he appeared whacked out of his brains on Letterman; and generally faded from public view to “pursue a career in rap music.” At the time, everyone wondered if Phoenix had just lost his marbles, or whether this...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 15th, 2010 | View Comments

THOR and CAPTAIN AMERICA will be post-converted into 3D: set phasers to “rage”

This comes straight from the bad news department: Marvel Studios is planning on converting two of its biggest 2011 films into 3D in post-production, Thor and Captain America (annoyingly subtitled The First Avenger). This bodes ill for people who don’t like 3D, people who specifically didn’t like the 3D in Alice In Wonderland or Clash Of The Titans, and people who are obsessed with continuity, who...
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