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...
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...
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...
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...
I reviewed Avatar on opening day. Fresh from watching the film, my mind had a tendency to focus on the trees rather than the woods, and, while the review still holds up, it could use some clarification.
Eight months have passed since then, the dust has settled, everyone’s absorbed Avatar into their...
Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web.
A pile of X-Men: First Class casting filtered down from above this week, it’s been hard to keep track of. Aaron Johnson (star of Kick-Ass and Nowhere Boy) was rumoured to have been cast as Cyclops, but his people...
Australians know who Carl Williams is because he was portrayed in a successful mini series which aired in 2007 called Underbelly. It had guns, money, tits and painted a colourful picture of the Australian underground crime world lead by Carl and his stooges… Actually, I have no idea– the show...
Following on from my list last week about movies that people innocently mistake for science fiction, here’s a list of the opposite: five popular movies that people don’t usually think of as science fiction.
Science fiction hasn’t really been popular since the Golden Age ended forty years...
Predators is a movie about a diverse bunch of assholes (one of them is even a woman – how inclusive!) getting their butts kicked by giant dreadlocked lizard men from space. It comes with Oscar-worthy pedigree in tow – in the form of Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne – and was produced under the...
