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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 5th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Scream 4, Demi Moore, Angela Bassett and someone will finally be Spider-Man

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Undoubtedly the biggest casting news of the week was the appointment of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in the all-new upcoming Spider-Man franchise reboot, being directed by Marc Webb. THR revealed the second biggest (potential) casting news of the week: Meryl Streep may be signing on to star in the biopic...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 16th, 2010 | View Comments

THE THING prequel gets a release date

Matthijs van Heijningen’s The Thing prequel has been slapped with a 29 April 2011 US release date. If you already forgot, Iron Man 2 opened in that slot this year and did pretty good business. But Iron Man 2 had Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr., and Scarlet Johanssen’s chest going for it. What does The Thing have going for it? Some Aussie bloke called Joel Edgerton, John McLane’s daughter from Die...
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 Robin Hare on Apr 29th, 2010 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 review: no girls allowed

Julie Andrews suggests I start the very beginning (which is apparently a very good place to start), so I’ll do that: Iron Man 2 starts off bad. There’s an awkward opening scene establishing Mickey Rourke’s “Whiplash” character that comes off hideously awkward and unnecessary, which plunges quickly into a vomit-inducingly sexist scene involving various swooping close-ups of...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Apr 28th, 2010 | View Comments

New poster for the next Megan Fox movie features JONAH HEX

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 adaptation) you’re probably also wondering ‘who the fuck is Jonah Hex?’ For both our sakes...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 26th, 2010 | View Comments

High hopes for A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET reboot

When I think of 80s cinema two things in particular come to mind: science fiction, and adventure films. Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Back To The Future, The Thing, Blade Runner — these are the classics that spring to mind. What I don’t usually think of is the horror franchises spawned in the 80s, like the Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street or Halloween flicks. I’ve never seen any of...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 16th, 2010 | View Comments

Ah, crap: Joss Whedon’s doing something again

Just when I thought Joss Whedon would go back to TV forever and leave us cinephiles alone, here he comes to potentially ruin another few promising franchises. The purveyor of all things smug and sarcastic, Whedon  has been called in to rewrite the Captain America and Avengers scripts. This comes hot on the heels of the news that he would be directing The Avengers, and makes sense, I suppose, as...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 12th, 2010 | View Comments

Q: Why was I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS’ release indefinitely delayed?

A: Homophobia. Probably. I’m just guessing. A movie in which Jim Carrey falls in love with and shares several intimate scenes with Ewan McGregor, written and directed by the writers of the deliciously black Bad Santa, should have enough box-office draw to warrant a serious release, but we’ve just been informed that Consolidated Pictures Group, the film’s distributors, have backed out at the...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Apr 9th, 2010 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 viral advertising is lost on me

Not literally lost, of course. I get it– I understand how viral marketing works and there’s no doubting it certainly has a very fad place in movies right now. Of course, Hollywood has borrowed heavily from the music industry which has been successfully promoting underground/garage/indie bands for decades using similar viral ‘tactics’. Viral marketing has been a successful way for...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 31st, 2010 | View Comments

New U.S. IRON MAN 2 poster has dark and moody floating heads

Nothing says ‘the movies’ like a floating heads poster. Coverage for the highly anticipated sequel Iron Man 2 has been in top gear during 2010 as the release date (May 7 in the States, 29 April Down Under) fast approaches. I’ve enjoyed watching the abundance of trailers, teasers, posters and pics spill onto the web and following varied comments and critiques go up in response: mostly, people...
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