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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: THE AVENGERS at Comic-Con, Brad Pitt in WORLD WAR Z, Jim Carrey, Katherine Heigl, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Burton

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Comic-Con 2010 is underway in San Diego leading the way with most headlines across the web this week. Amongst all the preview footage, panels, exhibitions and guest appearances, only a handful of casting news has trickled out of the convention. Without a doubt the biggest casting news out of Comic-Con came when the cast of The...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 26th, 2010 | View Comments

PANDORUM review

Pandorum is a mess. Nothing that transpires carries any sense of consistency or coherence. The plot is a random jumble of sci-fi story threads, directionless and vague at best. The characters are shallow and generic, spouting outrageous movie-isms at the drop of a hat. The conclusion is foregone, obvious from the first act, and the tension is noticeable by its absence. The setup is effective enough, using the...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 25th, 2010 | View Comments

Reel Short: CL!CK

No, not that comedy starring Adam Sandler that actually made people cry at the end for emotional reasons– not just from the pain of sitting through an Adam Sandler movie… CL!CK is a wonderfully crafted short film using stop animation, live actors and LEGO blocks to create what turns out to be a wonderful promotion for LEGO. The masterful thing being that I didn’t care I was being sold LEGO...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 24th, 2010 | View Comments

Top 7 twist endings that sucked

A good twist will immediately set your mind spinning. You sit there in the darkened theatre with your jaw agape, breathlessly going over the last two hours of your life and combing through those memories for some kind of clue. The best twists will encourage repeat viewings; the very best twists will serve to enrich the thematic conent of the film. The other side of the coin is the bad twist: the kind of twist...
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 Jason Stringer on Jul 18th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfield, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Banks, Emma Stone, Mark Wahlberg and Philip Seymour Hoffman

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. X-Men: First Class continues to throw names all over the place with regards to casting, but only now do I recognize one of the stars: Kevin Bacon. Variety reports Bacon will play a lead villain while 20th Century Fox have also signed Jennifer Lawrence to play Mystique. The director of Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn, is behind this...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 18th, 2010 | View Comments

Reel Short: SPIDER

Turns out I’m a fan of Blue-Tongue Films without even realising it. Following their superb short film I Love Sarah Jane (which I already featured on Reel Short) I saw the short film Spider during the week and knew right away I’d be featuring it here… not realising the same team was behind it. Blue-Tongue Films are also behind Australian feature films The Square and Animal Kingdom, both of...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 14th, 2010 | View Comments

Reinventing THE KARATE KID with the same beats… and Kung-fu

SPOILER WARNING for those who haven’t seen the original Karate Kid (and shame on you…) Like many who cherish their childhood films from the 80s, I was bemused to hear there would be a remake of the 1984 classic The Karate Kid, starring Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith in the lead role, and Jackie Chan playing the Mr. Miyagi character. Arriving at the cinema I was quickly reminded of it being school break...
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