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Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 24th, 2010 | View Comments

Top 7 twist endings that sucked

A good twist will immediately set your mind spinning. You sit there in the darkened theatre with your jaw agape, breathlessly going over the last two hours of your life and combing through those memories for some kind of clue. The best twists will encourage repeat viewings; the very best twists will serve to enrich the thematic conent of the film. The other side of the coin is the bad twist: the kind of twist...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 16th, 2010 | View Comments

Sam Raimi directing OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, starring Robert Downey Jr.

Where do you go searching for your next project after being axed from the mega-bucks Spider-Man franchise you helped create? Why, you simply follow the yellow brick road. Deadline reports that Sam Raimi has officially signed to direct the project Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz detailing how the man who becomes Wizard wound up in the land of Oz in the first place (also via rogue...
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 Mar 19th, 2010 | View Comments

Warner Bros. plans to saturate the market with 3D

The descent into gimmicky 3D has officially begun. Again. This time for real. Warner Bros., the studio behind the Harry Potter and current Batman franchises (among others) is planning to release all its ‘tentpole’ (studio-speak for effects-heavy crowd-pleasing stuff like superhero flicks) movies in 3D. There are 5 of them coming out this year, and another 11 next year. Woe betide the happles Harry...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 15th, 2010 | View Comments

PLANET OF THE APES prequel gets a director, exasperated sighs from fans

There hasn’t been a good Planet Of The Apes film for at least forty years. Sure, the second one was okay, between Linda Harrison and some Golden Age sci-fi trappings, but the ones without Charlton Heston didn’t elicit more than a yawn from audience, and the Tim Burton reboot was jaw-droppingly, mind-bogglingly, cringe-inducingly awful in every conceivable way (except for the remarkable special...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 10th, 2010 | View Comments

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: ’twas not brillig

Let’s get this out of the way first: I’m not a fan of Tim Burton’s. I don’t find beauty in his ubiqutous and heavy-handed grotesque art style, I don’t think twisted dead trees scream “ROMANTIC DARKNESS,” I don’t dig women’s choirs yelling “LALA LALA LALA LALA” accompanied by high-pitched strings, and I don’t believe that the paler the...
Posted by JonBoy on Mar 3rd, 2010 | View Comments

WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY promises to shed light on unsung Disney heroes.

If you asked a group of people in their twenties what films come to mind when you hear the word “Disney”, you’d most likely get responses along the line of The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. These films have managed to stand the test of time with all of them having reached, or nearing, their 20th anniversaries (how old does that make you feel?).  But what is...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Feb 10th, 2010 | View Comments

The Super Bowl movie TV spots of 2010

For an American-only event, the worldwide reception of the NFL Super Bowl, now in its 44th year, is remarkably impressive. This is thanks to the attention it receives reaching far beyond the game itself and into the spectacle that surrounds it, particularly the half-time entertainment and the lucrative advertising opportunities. If you have a few million sitting around and you have a product you want to push,...
Posted by Robin Hare on Dec 24th, 2009 | View Comments

KOYAANISQATSI review: words are insufficient

I had no idea what was about to go down. We were killing time, browsing a friend’s sibling’s DVD collection, and at one friend’s insistence, we put on Koyaanisqatsi (none of us knew what the hell it was, let alone how to pronounce the damn thing), in order to hear a song that was apparently featured in Watchmen, or something. We were going to listen to the song, and then stop the film and...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 19th, 2009 | View Comments

Second ALICE IN WONDERLAND trailer has more going for it

I’ve cringed at the idea of a Tim Burton-fuelled Alice In Wonderland since the project was announced. My disliking of the idea has been slowly confirmed as each piece of new media is rolled out – the images, posters and first trailer all revealed cheesy and typical Tim Burton touch that seems to smack of being dark and gloomy for the sake of it. Like he doesn’t know and refuses to explore any...
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