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Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 16th, 2010 | View Comments

Another great director succumbs to 3Dementia: Christopher Nolan edition

Despite finding “the dimness of the image extremely alienating,” Christopher Nolan foresees himself bowing to studio pressure and shooting something in 3D sooner or later. As Slashfilm wisely points out, it probably won’t be Batman 3, but Nolan’s been recently attached to some kind of Superman reboot, and Warner Bros. is likely to push hard for that to be shot in 3D; they even tried to...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 10th, 2010 | View Comments

Studios seem suspiciously certain that INCEPTION will dominate the box office in July

Inception is due to hit US screens on the 16th of July. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was slated to appear on the same date, but it’s since been moved forward a couple of days to the 14th, to get a head-start on Christopher Nolan’s latest mind-bender. Dinner For Schmucks, originally slated for a 23 July release, has been pushed back a week because “the July 30 frame is a less competitive...
Posted by Jason Stringer on May 27th, 2010 | View Comments

ALICE IN WONDERLAND box office makes Tim Burton a $1billion director

Disney is jumping for joy and rolling around in large wads of cash as Tim Burton’s CGI-heavy version of Alice in Wonderland just become the sixth film in history to crack the illustrious $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. To date, Alice has earned over $332 million in the US and almost $670 million in worldwide cinemas. This makes Tim Burton a billion dollar director– just think of the...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 25th, 2010 | View Comments

MASS EFFECT movie announcement: good news or bad news?

Seems like Legendary couldn’t let the recent Heavy Rain movie announcement go unanswered: Mass Effect is now officially on its way to the silver screen. I don’t think I’m exaggerating here when I say Mass Effect was the most important thing I saw, played or did in the last few years: for me it was a nigh life-changing experience, so naturally my knee-jerk response to this news is to cross my...
Posted by Jason Stringer on May 1st, 2010 | View Comments

BATMAN 3: The hype officially begins

Forget ‘Boobquake’, fanboys online seem to be getting far more excited over this news than they do over cleavage: Christopher Nolan’s third Batman film has an official release date: 20th July, 2012. That’s right, we’ve got over two years of hype, speculation, debate and intrigue to soak up before we see a single frame of Batman 3. The official date has been announced as a...
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 Mar 5th, 2010 | View Comments

MEMENTO review: holy short-term memory loss, Batman

Christopher Nolan is best known for his Bat-films, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight; big, heavy, dark comic book movies that have captured the hearts and wallets of a generation of moviegoers. But once upon a time, before Christian Bale gargled gravel and donned the bat cowl, Christopher Nolan made a little film called Memento. It’s a mind-bending post-noir psychological thrillery affair, as well as a...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Feb 9th, 2010 | View Comments

The growing intrigue of Nolan’s INCEPTION

Writer/Director Christopher Nolan has a track record of impressive films that cannot be ignored. It simply demands attention.  I cannot vouch for being a Nolan ‘fan’, however I must admit to enjoying every single one of his films. He has a natural touch, it seems, whether it be stories about the Caped Crusader and his adventures in Gotham City or a film presented with scenes played out backwards...
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 Jason Stringer on Jan 7th, 2010 | View Comments

And the Oscar goes to… how?

The awards season is an awesome time to be a film buff. Serious film buffs get to wax lyrical with their chums about which films and actors deserve which awards and why, and for at least a couple of nights (what feels like) the entire world stops to see what the film indutrsy offers. For the upcoming 2010 ceremony of the Academy Awards, TEN films will be nominated for Best Picture as apposed to the usual...
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