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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 14th, 2010 | View Comments

You had me at Stallone: new EXPENDABLES trailer perfectly caters to my primal desire to see action films

There ain’t too much I can say about this trailer it doesn’t already say for itself. Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables opens 13 August 2010 and is going head-to-head at the box office with the Julie Roberts feel-good, soul-searching drama Eat Pray Love. This trailer, aptly titled ‘Call to Arms’, calls for all men worth their salt to get back in the fucking cinema and see some...
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 Jason Stringer on Jul 5th, 2010 | View Comments

10 sports movies I am watching instead of the FIFA World Cup

So, the FIFA World Cup 2010 is on, and while Australia’s Socceroos crumbled to yet another dismal early-exit from the tournament, I’ve decided to re-watch some of my favourite sporting movies instead of enduring what remains of the event. After all, the running time for a lot of films is pretty close to a single game of soccer. I might just tune in to the final. Note: I’m not saying these...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 29th, 2010 | View Comments

New EXPENDABLES images are ridiculous, awesome

Just when you thought The Expendables couldn’t get any more stunty or veiny, Collider drops these gnarly new images on us. I’ve been keen as mustard on this film ever since the name Arnold Schwarzenegger was mentioned. Hitting screens in August 2010. Official Synopsis: Expendable:  capable of being sacrificed in order to accomplish a military objective. THE EXPENDABLES is a...
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 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 Robin Hare on Apr 6th, 2010 | View Comments

THE EXPENDABLES trailer promises action, mumbled dialogue

  The 80s was an important time for the action film. The format became popular during that decade, and spawned careers for many physically-imposing actors that are now household names, such as Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and so on. So in keeping with the 80s throwback that has become so popular lately, Sylvester Stallone is returning to his roots to bring us...
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...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 25th, 2010 | View Comments

International IRON MAN 2 poster is incredibly lame

I’m still not entirely sure why there needs to be more than one version of a film’s poster for different countries, but here’s the “international” Iron Man 2 poster anyway. It comes at you in a flurry of bad lighting, shoddy compositing, stock backgrounds and obviously-CGI characters dominating the proceedings, and it manages to convey absolutely nothing about the tone or...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 17th, 2010 | View Comments

Did you know they’re rebooting CONAN as well?

An Arnie movie without Arnie is a paradox the likes of which you’d think wouldn’t occur in this plane of existence, but here we have yet another Austrian Oak cult classic getting the reboot treatment: Conan (the Barbarian / the Destroyer). These films were never really great; they were cheap 80s swords-and-sorcery heroic fantasy pics which only turned a dime because of their strapping young star....
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