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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 12th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Edward Norton is out, X-Men: First Class gets busy, Denzel Washington, The Hobbit, Kevin Smith, Christoper Nolan and James Bond

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 were quick to put that rumour to rest. That is where my interest in this film ends. For your benefit, here...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 10th, 2010 | View Comments

Two goofy movies get goofy new titles: FANTASTIC FOUR reboot and DIE HARD 5 renamed

Once upon a time, the Fantastic Four films were rubbish. Then, at the same time Disney acquired Marvel, a Jessica Alba-less Fantastic Four reboot was announced, to the delight of comic book fans everywhere. Heroes / Smallville writer Michael Green was hired to write the script (he also wrote the upcoming Green Lantern adaptation); Hancock / I Am Legend producer Akiva Goldsman is on board as showrunner; beyond...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 6th, 2010 | View Comments

DIE HARD franchise refuses to die easily

Die Hard is the perfect encapsulation of the 80s action movie: a wise-cracking macho American tough-guy squaring off against a slimy European smarty-pants, and dozens of his inept minions, in a confined space. It’s hard to imagine a time when movies like this didn’t exist — probably because I’m not old enough to remember. Die Hard 4, or Live Free or Die Hard as it was amusingly dubbed...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 25th, 2010 | View Comments

From one extreme to the other, Kevin Smith’s RED STATE is green lit

I saw Cop Out with my younger brother and sister last week in a crowd that should have whipped the movie into a hysterical spin. It didn’t happen. Cop Out lived up to its unfortunate title and I left the cinema with my head low, unable to defend director Kevin Smith against those bashing his name at every given chance– because even a fan needs to admit at this point, the last batch of flicks have...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 19th, 2010 | View Comments

COP OUT pays homage, misfires

How often can someone let you down before you just plain give up on them? Kevin Smith, I get you, brother. I dig the way you go about your business, speak your mind and eat whatever you fucking well want, but goddamn it, you can make it hard to be a fan of yours sometimes. I’ve done so well to not name this review with a predictably clever swipe at the title Cop Out. It wasn’t all that bad. Yet I...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Feb 6th, 2010 | View Comments

Red band COP OUT trailer restores faith

By default, I’m supposed to look forward to a new Kevin Smith film. As regulars may know, I have a soft spot for the director, despite fair criticisms and past blunders (Jersey Girl, Clerks II), I cannot deny what an inspiration Kevin Smith is. I’ve been a fan since Chasing Amy (1997) and am always impressed by his public appearances and his simple yet effective filmmaking approach. I was crushed...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jan 15th, 2010 | View Comments

COP OUT poster is default cheesy

Show me this poster for Cop Out on any other day, without any knowledge that Kevin Smith was the director, and I would never believe that Silent Bob himself was the one behind it. For the first time in his film career, Kevin Smith has directed a film that he did not also write. The result is Cop Out, starring Bruce Willis and Tracey Morgan as two bumbling police officers in a buddy cop-film formerly titled A...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jan 10th, 2010 | View Comments

The 7 worst films based on TV shows

With the upcoming release of The A-Team and the recent arrival of its trailer online, I thought it might be timely to take a look back at films that were adapted from classic television programmes but didn’t do the original show justice. Okay, one could easily argue that none of the films based on television shows do the original counterparts justice– but of all those films (and there are many!),...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Froley’s Top 5 of 2009

Just kidding, New Moon is not only not in my top 5, it is one of the worst movies of all time. But now that I’ve got your attention, let’s look at 5 movies that were actually worthwhile in the otherwise weak cinematical year that was 2009. Bear in mind that up until December I wasn’t reviewing everything I saw, and I generally didn’t go out of my way to catch smaller or more obscure...
Posted by Money Talks on Dec 4th, 2009 | View Comments

The top 5 chick flicks that won’t microwave your balls off

The words “chick flick” have long been able to send a dagger of fear into the hearts of young (and older) men. With the New Year comes a new batch of no-gore, no-(or very rare) nudity and no-foul language movies that are designed for one thing and one thing only. To make a Mans’ cinema-going experience on par with plucking your eyebrows with an adjustable spanner! Now. Once in a while there will come a...
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