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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 13th, 2010 | View Comments

TRANSFORMERS 3 cannot be avoided: public set images and video

Michael Bay has been busy shooting Transformers 3 on the streets of Chicago and the internet has become riddled with images and videos from among the public crowds gathering to watch the action take place. Optimus Prime has been seen rolling down the road and Megan Fox love interest replacement Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has been spotted strutting her stuff. Slashfilm have put together a very impressive...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 29th, 2010 | View Comments

Top 5 Movies Mistaken for Sci-Fi That Aren’t

In literature, science fiction and fantasy are clearly defined. They are polar opposite in terms of their content: science fiction deals with things that could potentially happen, while fantasy deals with things that definitely couldn’t ever happen. The two genres have had a tough time making the leap to the film world, a problem exacerbated by the confusion between the two genres. In most people’s minds,...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 26th, 2010 | View Comments

Reel Thinker Podcast #01, June 25 2010

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. You’re moments away from listening to our first ever podcast. Go ahead, click the players above or below to start streaming from the web or Download the mp3 file (19 mb). Jason Stringer, Danny Clark and Nyrie Anne share their...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

This isn’t where I parked my Megan Fox: TRANSFORMERS 3 set pics hit the web

Just in case you, like me, were hoping the whole Transformers phenomenon was just a bad dream, reality has struck yet again, this time in the form of set photos from the third film in the fan-lauded but critic-loathed robo-fighty trilogy. The set photos show a man with a gun nearly as big as his ego, a very confused-looking Shia LaBeouf, and a very un-Megan-Fox-looking Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. I...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 8th, 2010 | View Comments

What is this “genre” thing people keep talking about?

Action. Adventure. Comedy. What do these words mean? Crime. Drama. Epic/historical. Horror. Who decided that what criteria would demarcate these styles? Musical. Thriller. Science fiction. War. Western.  Since when did a film’s target audience and target genre feed back into the production of the film itself? When you browse your local video store, you’ll find the DVDs organised into strictly segregated...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 2nd, 2010 | View Comments

You will enjoy it: are we financially obliged to enjoy movies regardless of quality?

The average ticket price at the Australian box office is around $15. Seniors get tickets for $10, kids are around $13, students $15, and adults $17; 3D or other deluxe options skew all these prices a few dollars higher, super $10 Tuesdays skew them lower, but it all works out to be around $15 bucks. If you see a movie once a month, on average, that’s $180 a year on tickets alone; that number doubles if you...
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 Jason Stringer on May 20th, 2010 | View Comments

Megan Fox will not be acting/appearing/sweating in TRANSFORMERS 3

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen was fucking atrocious. There’s no finer way to put it.  The first film was barely tolerable but the sequel was a horrendous pile of scrap metal that happened to make a bucket-load of cash. The only thing I enjoyed was being able to smirk at the screen whenever Michael Bay blatantly took advantage of Megan Fox’s assets in sweaty slow motion– it was...
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 14th, 2010 | View Comments

Shia LaBeouf knows TRANSFORMERS 2 was crap; promises a better TRANSFORMERS 3

Shia LaBeouf ain’t scared of nothin’. He got Nintendo fanboys’ jocks in a knot when he basically called the Wii antithetical to gaming itself, and now he’s looking to knock Transformers 2 fanboys down a peg by pointing out how shit it was. Well, not in so many words, but listen to the bloke chat at a recent Cannes interview (ostensibly about Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps): When I...
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