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Posted by mrthinker on Nov 28th, 2009 | View Comments

It’s a shame how the name ‘AMITYVILLE’ became franchised

It’s a shame how the name ‘Amityville’ became franchised over the years. The original myth, book and even the original film were pretty decent. Can you believe there have been NINE sequels/spinoffs of The Amityville Horror since the book and film in ’79? All of them rather dull and unimaginative. I wasn’t at all surprised by the 2005 remake (amongst the remake trend) but it...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 17th, 2009 | View Comments

Starring Johnny Depp exactly like you’ve seen him plenty of times before

Disney have been rolling out these banners for Tim Burton‘s Alice In Wonderland. It’s been pretty boring. But now they are finished so you can see them all as one big one (it’s thrilling. Honestly.) The final one released was of Johnny Depp in his Mad Hatter character makeup. Hands up if you’re looking forward to seeing Johnny Depp play Mad Hatter in this ’3D epic magical...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 15th, 2009 | View Comments

They’ll keep making trash as long as we keep buying it– and we do

The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week had this interesting tidbit: “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” has stormed into the No. 1 position on the national DVD sales charts. The action film scored a whopping first-week North American sales tally of 3.8 million discs, 500,000 of them on Blu-ray, during the week ended November 8. Some of those units wound up in as rental items, but the majority were sold...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 15th, 2009 | View Comments

Leap Year trailer gives it all away

Do you think, when the screenwriter– in this case Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) finally finishes their work and gets it sold to a studio, that they actually believe it could something different and unique? Or does the studio insist on such predictable, been-there-seen-that material because they believe it’s fool proof (based on what, I do not know… Love Actually, maybe?)… I mean,...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 12th, 2009 | View Comments

Harvey Keitel will be a Little Focker

THR reports that Mr. White, The Wolf, The Man himself Harvey Keitel will be joining the cast of Little Fockers, the second sequel to Meet The Parents (2000). Keitel will join cast members Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert DeNiro, Blythe Danner, Owen Wilson, Jessica Alba (yow!) and Laura Dern. In it’s own special and weird way, Meet The Parents was painfully funny as required. If you were to compile...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 12th, 2009 | View Comments

With the TWILIGHT saga booming, a FRIGHT NIGHT remake was inevitable

Fright Night is nothing like the gloosy, dark and gritty vampire movies we’ve come to expect these days, yet it remains a classic vampire film that found its way nto our hearts in 1985 via director Tom Holland. With the Twilight Saga booming like it is, I guess we should have expected that a movie like Fright Night would get a working-over by Hollywood–especially as the original blended horror and...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 11th, 2009 | View Comments

UP IN THE AIR new trailer to keep you high

Who would have thought that dude from ER would be the Frank Sinatra of our generation? (Without the singing). George Clooney is box office gold at the moment. One of his new films, Up In The Air, directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) has been making a big splash online after it played at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. There’s even thought it could make a play at the...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 11th, 2009 | View Comments

That font reminds me an awful lot of Harry Potter

Nicolas Cage needs a haircut. Yes he does. Straight away one can tell how zany and different he wanted his character to be in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Disney’s upcoming attachment to the Harry Potter franchise. Not officially, of course. But… The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is about Balthazar Blake (Cage), a sorcerer who recruits and trains a young protege (Jay Baruchel) to help fight the...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 11th, 2009 | View Comments

Teaser suggests KICK-ASS will indeed ‘kick ass’

Sometimes it’s nice to take the lighter side of what has been a serious agenda for a while. After a barrage of comic book and superhero films taking the genre into the depths of ‘darker’ and ‘grittier’, along comes Kick-Ass to make you chuckle and not (likely) not have you questioning life values at the top of the third act. This awesome teaser dropped around the web today, and I...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 10th, 2009 | View Comments

New Alice in Wonderland poster: Big heads and a wonky font

Everything about Alice In Wonderland oozes Tim Burton. Unless you’re a fan, I’m not sure that’s a good thing. Check out the new poster released today. I’m not sure what to expect from Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland (March 2010). Everything we’ve seen so far has been typically Burton, and that teaser was very geared toward Johnny Depp being the big sell (doing more...
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