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Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Autumn review round-up: some duds, some gems, and a couple of shrugs

It’s winter again. I can tell because I have a cold, my cats look more woolly than your average sheep, and it’s starting to rain every time I go to put the washing out. That can mean only one thing: the dreary cinematic graveyard season of autumn is finally passing. And what a mixed season it was! Autumn heralded some of the most (and some of the least) anticipated flicks of the year. We got Iron...
Posted by Jason Stringer on May 27th, 2010 | View Comments

ALICE IN WONDERLAND box office makes Tim Burton a $1billion director

Disney is jumping for joy and rolling around in large wads of cash as Tim Burton’s CGI-heavy version of Alice in Wonderland just become the sixth film in history to crack the illustrious $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. To date, Alice has earned over $332 million in the US and almost $670 million in worldwide cinemas. This makes Tim Burton a billion dollar director– just think of the...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 30th, 2010 | View Comments

This time I agree with Ebert: 3D sucks

I wrote a few months ago about why I thought 3D movies were crap; but that was before Avatar came out, so I was writing with some degree of optimism. Now that Avatar has come and gone I can safely say that I’m still not on board for 3D. A higher degree of immersion doesn’t negate a boring script or lazy world-building. If you don’t know who Roger Ebert is, then … you’re missing...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 16th, 2010 | View Comments

Fincher’s THE SOCIAL NETWORK and why digital photography still sucks

News regarding David Fincher’s The Social Network has been getting stranger by the minute. First there was the project itself, about the founding of the Facebook empire, and then there was the director involved, who isn’t usually associated with seemingly trivial stuff like this. Then there was the casting — Justin Timberlake (remember: he was actually pretty good in Black Snake Moan) and Joe...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 26th, 2010 | View Comments

TRON LEGACY trailer is our last, best hope for retro sci-fi

If you get the reference in the title of this post (maybe we can be friends!), you, like me, may have been incredibly distracted for the first sixty seconds of the Tron: Legacy trailer because of the voice you were hearing. At first I thought “Well, that sounds a lot like Bruce Boxleitner,” but after a while I became certain — it was Bruce Boxleitner. And then finally, after an...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 10th, 2010 | View Comments

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: ’twas not brillig

Let’s get this out of the way first: I’m not a fan of Tim Burton’s. I don’t find beauty in his ubiqutous and heavy-handed grotesque art style, I don’t think twisted dead trees scream “ROMANTIC DARKNESS,” I don’t dig women’s choirs yelling “LALA LALA LALA LALA” accompanied by high-pitched strings, and I don’t believe that the paler the...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Feb 10th, 2010 | View Comments

The Super Bowl movie TV spots of 2010

For an American-only event, the worldwide reception of the NFL Super Bowl, now in its 44th year, is remarkably impressive. This is thanks to the attention it receives reaching far beyond the game itself and into the spectacle that surrounds it, particularly the half-time entertainment and the lucrative advertising opportunities. If you have a few million sitting around and you have a product you want to push,...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 19th, 2009 | View Comments

Second ALICE IN WONDERLAND trailer has more going for it

I’ve cringed at the idea of a Tim Burton-fuelled Alice In Wonderland since the project was announced. My disliking of the idea has been slowly confirmed as each piece of new media is rolled out – the images, posters and first trailer all revealed cheesy and typical Tim Burton touch that seems to smack of being dark and gloomy for the sake of it. Like he doesn’t know and refuses to explore any...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 9th, 2009 | View Comments

Tim Burton’s DARK SHADOWS makes sense

Confirmed: Tim Burton will direct a film remake of the late-60s television drama Dark Shadows. It will star Johnny Depp. Act surprised. I have to stop and wonder– why does this news aggravate me so? It was a knee-jerk reaction to scoff and roll my eyes when I read the news that Mr. Burton’s remake of Dark Shadows was actually going ahead. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Why is that? I...
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...
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