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Jason Stringer on Jun 2, 2010 in
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Just to prove it does in fact exist and will be opening soon, Emma Watson and other cast members from the Harry Potter films visited the soon-to-be-opened Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal’s Orlando resort. Yes, a Harry Potter theme park. What more could a Harry Potter fan ask for? This...
These utterly uninspiring Jonah Hex character banners further demonstrate how Warner Brothers are keeping things as close to a proven template as possible. All originality has been thrown out the window and they’re clearly sticking to what has worked in the past on promotion for films like X-Men and...
Megan Fox will play a prostitute, wear busty tight dresses and carry small guns (is she compensating for something?) in her new film which also stars Josh Brolin and Jon Malkovich, called Jonah Hex. If you’re like me and don’t read comic books (this is another comic book/graphic novel...
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Robin Hare on Apr 2, 2010 in
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I remember reading John Marsden’s Tomorrow series in my youth and being absolutely hooked. Ellie and her mates were a bit older than I was at the time but I still felt their hopes and fears ring true on the page: the characters were sharply defined and consistent throughout the...
Okay, I need to make another up-front disclaimer: I find Greek mythology strangely compelling. For some reason the monsters, characters, creatures, symbolism and setting seem inherently interesting to me. I mean, the medusa’s gaze is sufficiently frightening even before giving her snakes for hair...
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Robin Hare on Mar 30, 2010 in
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon made the original Twilight seem like a masterpiece in comparison — faint praise at best. How will the next inevitable vampire / werewolf / teenage melodrama movie fare compared to its forebears under the auspices of new director David Slade (he directed Hard Candy and 30...
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Robin Hare on Mar 29, 2010 in
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Jon Turteltaub made the National Treasure movies, both of which were terrible, though the first one was slightly less terrible than the second; Jerry Bruckheimer has been known to churn out duds alongside gems in his ceaseless efforts to bring loud, dumb action movies to our screens; and Nicolas Cage is,...
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Robin Hare on Mar 25, 2010 in
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The Prince Of Persia reboot The Sands Of Time, released way back in 2003, was a turning point in gaming. It had smooth 3D platforming, slickly-animated characters, solid atmosphere and art design, and a unique mechanic enabling players to mess around with time. It was a simple, ingenious and...
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Robin Hare on Mar 19, 2010 in
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The descent into gimmicky 3D has officially begun. Again. This time for real. Warner Bros., the studio behind the Harry Potter and current Batman franchises (among others) is planning to release all its ‘tentpole’ (studio-speak for effects-heavy crowd-pleasing stuff like superhero flicks)...