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Posted by Robin Hare on May 10th, 2010 | View Comments

MEN IN BLACK 3(D) gets a release date

You’d better get used to 3D blockbusters while you can, because by 2012, you’re going to be drowning in a veritable tidal wave of the buggers. Men In Black 3 (which will be in 3D), has just been slapped with a release date: the 25th of May, 2012. This is slap bang in the middle of Hollywood’s big summer line-up, which is, as usual, headlined by sequels, 3D blockbusters, and the occasional...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 12th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN 4 scrapped in favour of franchise reboot

Hollywood is officially broken. After a recent flurry of casting rumours (Anne Hathaway, John Malkovich as new villains), delays, script problems and fan plot speculation regarding the planned fourth, fifth and sixth Spidey flicks, Sam Raimi has finally had enough of Sony’s shit, and has officially left the building, taking with him Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, the heart and soul of the films, and any...
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 Jan 11th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN 3 review: oh how the mighty have fallen

I was actually looking forward to finishing off the Spidey trilogy, especially coming off the back of the first sequel. I had fond memories of this third instalment, but watching the film again, I have no idea why. Maybe it stands on its own quite well — that is, if you don’t watch it within 48 hours of the other two — but after the awesome Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3 feels detached,...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 10th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN 2 review: the best comic book film of all time

Narrowly snatching the crown from the discombobulated Watchmen, and the too-cool-to-be-emotionally-engaging The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2 is probably the greatest comic book adaptation of all time. How do I know that, you ask? Because from the opening frame you forget it’s a comic book movie. It’s just a great film with some wacky costumes and surreal vertical combat scenes. And that, more than...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 10th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN review: power, responsibility, spandex

2002 was something of a big year for high-concept fantasy blockbusters. Spider-Man debuted strongly even against the inevitable power of the second Star Wars prequel, Attack Of The Clones, and then later in the year the second Harry Potter flick duked it out against the middle Lord Of The Rings. Those of us lucky enough to be that perfect target-demographic age of 12 that year found ourselves going to the...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 14th, 2009 | View Comments

Promoting AVATAR to the masses

I’m hardly someone who can give you a complete rundown of all the marketing that has accompanied Avatar in recent weeks. I’ve been across most of it– I’ve seen the images, posters, trailers and featurettes just like any normal consumer might have. I haven’t actively sought out anything to do with Avatar, I’ve just taken in what has been placed in front of me. I’m also...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 3rd, 2009 | View Comments

Can Sam Raimi bring the horror back to a desperate genre?

Director Sam Raimi is one of those filmmakers that indies can look up to as a God. A creative talent who (literally) trounced through swampland to get his film ‘out there’ back in ’78. The film was THE EVIL DEAD and was at the forerunner of ‘video nasties’ in the UK when VHS was starting out. It also spawned two of the most memorable horror sequels of all time. He went on to...
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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