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Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 5th, 2010 | View Comments

The top 5 female film protagonists

Sometimes, white-male-dominated Hollywood freaks out and breaks the rules and accidentally makes a movie with a woman instead of a man in the lead role. Sometimes, these movies don’t even objectify or ogle their subjects, they just treat them like regular people. Sometimes, these movies are even good. In the wake of the culturally disastrous Sex And The City 2, I felt it was prudent — nay,...
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 Robin Hare on Jan 12th, 2010 | View Comments

TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES review: why was this movie even made?

The original Terminator was released in 1984. Terminator 2: Judgment Day came along in ’91. Then, suddenly, entirely unsolicited, Arnie’s metal man made another appearance in 2003 with Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines. If you thought T2 just about wrapped up every important narrative thread pertaining to John and Sarah Connor, their pet T-101, and the shenanigans of Skynet or Cyberdyne or...
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 Dec 10th, 2009 | View Comments

AVATAR DAY / hype retrospective: I don’t think so, Jim

“James Cameron”: the man’s name is synonymous with large-scale action blockbusters. His sci-fi actioners reigned supreme from the mid-80s till the early 90s, giving us a string of classics: The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991); the common theme among them? Ordinary, complex, flawed human beings dealing with utterly foreign,...
Posted by Robin Hare on Nov 27th, 2009 | View Comments

Why TERMINATOR 2 is still better than today’s blockbusters

Terminator 2 is an Ideas film. I’m not just talking about ideas, but Ideas—the kind of imaginative scenarios you are ashamed you didn’t think of first. T2 is bristling with an inordinate amount of Ideas. I bet if you added up all the Ideas in T2 (if you wanted to get quantitative about it), they would greatly exceed the number of original Ideas in this year’s Transformers 2, Star Trek, X-Men Origins:...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Mar 2nd, 2009 | View Comments

When did I start looking forward to TERMINATOR 4?

I’m trying to put my finger on exactly what happened to my anticipation of McG’s upcoming addition to the TERMINATOR saga, TERMINATION: SALVATION. At first, when news dropped of a new Terminator coming our way, I was slightly intrigued.  Thankful at first that it wasn’t a remake/reboot/reimagining/rehash/restart (what the f*ck is the preferred term these days?) I was soon let down in...
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