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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 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 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 Mar 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

CAPTAIN AMERICA finally settles on its lead

That’s right, Chris Evans has officially accepted the role of Steve Rogers / Captain America in Marvel’s upcoming superhero flick. Yeah, Chris Evans was in the Fantastic Four movies, but because they weren’t produced by Marvel, and because they’re getting rebooted anyway, apparently Chris Evans is allowed to also be Steve Rogers without causing the Marvel multiverse to implode upon...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 11th, 2010 | View Comments

The 7 best comic book movies

The Joker turns 70 this year. The clown prince premiered in the northern hemisphere spring of 1940 in Batman’s first standalone series. Batman himself, as well as Superman and some other, lesser-known characters, are a few years older even than Mr J. Back then it was all about domino masks, tights, capes, and good-old-fashioned crime-fighting, with a dash of Freudian introspection on the side. With the...
Posted by Robin Hare on Dec 30th, 2009 | View Comments

SHERLOCK HOLMES review: where did that come from?

I think the character of Sherlock Holmes is perennially popular for one reason in particular. Everyone likes to think that they could be just as smart and brilliant and witty as Holmes, with a little training and a small change in lifestyle. The formula laid down by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in writing the Holmes books (of which I have read precisely zero) helps people delude themselves into believing this: all...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 17th, 2009 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 trailer is everything you expected

I don’t think that anyone can honestly say they are disappointed with the recently released Iron Man 2 trailer. Those who were keen to lavish it with glorious praise and love it to pieces are doing just that as it delivers glimpses of War Machine and Whiplash in full swing. Those who are still ragging over the first movie and were not excited about an Iron Man 2 film (let alone a trailer) are equally...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 10th, 2009 | View Comments

Picture this: Scarlett Johansson in a superhero movie

There’s a short list of ladies I will go see on a cinema screen for all the wrong reasons. I won’t share the list with you now (your guess would be remarkably accurate, I’m sure), just know that I’m willing to see utter rubbish if it stars one of these ladies, and Scarlett Johansson is listed. High. Scarlett had been in a few minor roles before she broke through in Sophia...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 14th, 2009 | View Comments

Scarlett Johansson’s chunky rack will help sell IRON MAN 2

The majority of IRON MAN fans appear to be heartbroken over the confirmation that Scarlett Johansson has been cast in the upcoming sequel IRON MAN 2, and I can sort of understand why. They’re a bit cautions because, apparently, the actress can’t act… While that may be a bit too obnoxious to say, one has to concede that perhaps her role as Black Widow in an action-summer-blockbuster might...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 3rd, 2009 | View Comments

Watching the WATCHMEN Box Office is probably going to be more interesting than the film itself

I for one openly admit I had no f*cking idea what WATCHMEN was until promotional material started to appear about the film.  By now, of course, we realize that it was originally a graphic novel which has been adapted into a film by Warner Brothers. I’m not going to delve into the legal battle that happened between studios WB and Fox for the distribution rights.  Bottom line is, they reached an...
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