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Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 18th, 2010 | View Comments

Spielberg’s horse movie now has a human cast — still no horse

To prove he’s not just horsing around like we all secretly hope, Spielberg has gone ahead and put together a cast for his new horse flick War Horse, about a horse. Empire has helpfully trotted out a face / name sheet to help you sort out the non-equine members of the cast. None of them are particularly well known, but there are some solid character actors in there, and you can depend on Spielberg to hoof...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 21st, 2010 | View Comments

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET review: the sins of the father

I’m not big on horror. The scariest films I can remember seeing are The Thing, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Exorcist. The youngest of those is 30 years old. I haven’t seen the “classics,” the string of teen slasher flicks from the 80s, or the post-modern Scream-style stuff from the 90s; I’m most familiar with the 21st century torture porn / half-arsed reboot school of horror...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 17th, 2010 | View Comments

Shia LaBeouf also acknowledges INDY 4′s flaws

First Nintendo, then Transformers, and now Steven Spielberg himself: Shia LaBeouf has balls of steel. And not those awkward dangly things that were in Transformers 2. No other celebrity has the guts to stand up and point out the faults in their own work. But that’s exactly what LaBeouf has done. Isn’t that awesome? Quoth he (regarding Indiana Jones 4 and his latest, Wall Street 2, both of long and...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 12th, 2010 | View Comments

Feast your eyes on a non-bootlegged SUPER 8 teaser

I recently vomited some words about JJ Abrams’ super secret alien film Super 8, and was forced to link to a bootlegged YouTube video of the teaser. Now, however, the teaser has been released for real, on real websites, in rock-solid, HD goodness. Embedded below for your viewing pleasure. Sure, it’s pretty ambiguous, but there’s some action there, and some mystery, and everyone loves a good...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 10th, 2010 | View Comments

JJ Abrams up to his usual shenanigans: SUPER 8 viral

Viral advertising shits me to tears. Any advertising that requires me to do work offends my sensibilites — you’re trying to sell me a product here, not train me to replace Sherlock Holmes, for Christ’s sake. My time is important to me, so I don’t want to waste it deciphering opaque clues disseminated by smug internet fanboys; attempts to drag me into some exclusive club of people who...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 4th, 2010 | View Comments

Steven Spielberg’s next movie is about … a horse

I suppose once you’ve done sharks, snakes, dinosaurs, and aliens (several times), it’s time to move on to a more homely, less exotic animal: the humble horse. War Horse follows the adventures of a … horse … as it is taken away from its home farm and thrust into service in World War I, where it experiences first-hand the horrors of war, and the extent of man’s inhumanity to man....
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Ridley Scott planning ALIEN prequels … in 3D

This news has been kicking around for a while, so it’s about time we weighed in on it with our take. It seems almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? That Ridley Scott would return to the Alien universe three decades later and shoot a prequel — or two — himself? After 25 years of crappy sequels and woeful crossovers, the guy who kicked the whole franchise off is coming back to reinvent...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 22nd, 2010 | View Comments

10 film trilogies with bad third chapters

Sometimes it’s because the studio makes so much money they can’t resist developing another sequel. Sometimes it’s because the franchise creators always planned a three-act story arc. Sometimes the studio funnels funds into the hands of franchise creators who don’t really know how to build on their first film. Whatever the case, 3 is the magic number in Hollywood: trilogies have grown in...
Posted by JonBoy on Feb 4th, 2010 | View Comments

Limitations can help filmmakers and GEORGE LUCAS is insane

Is it possible for someone to suddenly change?  I mean, I know that as we age we mature and gain life experience.  We learn from our mistakes and become better people by overcoming life’s adversities.  It’s like dating really, you go through a few (or a lot of) failed relationships until you’re lucky enough to find the right one.  Sometimes it’s worth going through the hardships – horrible as...
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...
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