spilling thoughts on everyday movie news
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 8th, 2010 | View Comments

Sometimes the truth really does suck: Trailer for TWILIGHT spoof movie VAMPIRES SUCK

Here we go again. Another one of those horrid, ridiculous, waste-of-time spoof movies that takes advantage of latest pop culture references and crams them into a plotless, pointless 90-minutes and aims to sell lots of tickets… and they do. What’s really gritting my shit about Vampires Suck (geddit?), is that it’s catering, somewhat successfully, to both fans of the Twilight saga as well...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 7th, 2010 | View Comments

Good one, Hollywood: I nearly believed you when you said you lost money on HARRY POTTER 5

Whenever I explain to people that big movie studios (like Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, etc.) don’t make much annual profit (relatively speaking), I’m usually met with blank stares or open incredulity. “But Tentpole: The Movie: Sequel #3 made $xxx million!” they say; “of course they make billions of dollars every year!” That’s not actually the case. Why? Because,...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 5th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Meryl Streep, Amanda Seyfried, Scream 4, Demi Moore, Angela Bassett and someone will finally be Spider-Man

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Undoubtedly the biggest casting news of the week was the appointment of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker in the all-new upcoming Spider-Man franchise reboot, being directed by Marc Webb. THR revealed the second biggest (potential) casting news of the week: Meryl Streep may be signing on to star in the biopic...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 1st, 2010 | View Comments

TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE review: by the numbers

The Twilight Saga is about a young white girl whose affections are torn between an extremely old white man and a relatively youthful tanned fellow. The old dude glistens in the sun and wears make-up that makes him look like Data from Star Trek, while the young guy spends most of his time shirtless (even in the snow!), glowering, flexing his pecs, or being a wolf (for reasons unknown). Data hates the Wolf-Boy,...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jun 28th, 2010 | View Comments

Call Sheet: Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Bruce Willis, Gweneth Paltrow, Neil Patrick Harris

Call Sheet: A weekly run-down of movie casting news and rumours from around the web. Variety reckons Matt Damon is in talks to join Cameron Crowe’s Zoo, based on Benjamin Mee’s bestselling memoir We Bought a Zoo. Damon would play Benjamin Mee, a widowed father who buys a dilapidated zoo in the English countryside. Intense action ensues. Moviehole recently talked with Major League...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jun 14th, 2010 | View Comments

Weekend news round-up: TWILIGHT, NEUROMANCER and PIRATES updates

I’ll get the bad news out of the way first: The fourth Twilight book, Breaking Dawn, will be split into two discrete films. This is bad news because the Twilight movies are bad, and more of them can’t be a good thing (did I really have to explain that to you?). The first part is due in December 2011. Next up, some potentially good news: Splice director Vincenzo Natali has been officially...
Posted by Robin Hare on May 24th, 2010 | View Comments

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES gets exciting new release date

Battle: Los Angeles sounds like a good old-fashioned military sci-fi flick, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since 1997′s Starship Troopers. It’s got aliens, warfare, gritty realism, and aliens. Did I mention the aliens? Originally slated for a February 2011 release, Battle has been pushed back to March (the 11th, to be precise.) This is apparently quite exciting, because while February is...
Posted by Jason Stringer on May 22nd, 2010 | View Comments

The cast of TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE are looking down on you in these new posters

One could argue that too many people look up to the Twilight saga, but there’s no denying the series has one hell of a following. The marketing team for the upcoming third instalment Eclipse decided to try something different for a recent run of posters by having the lead cast look down on the audience. I found it noticeably disorienting and kind of silly when I first saw them, but I’m sure...
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 21st, 2010 | View Comments

MTV will air the TEEN WOLF television series remake

Remakes make money, it’s just a fact. That’s why Hollywood keeps dusting off rights to old properties that have proven successful in the past and turning them into films. For whatever reason, our interest is perked enough to pop along to the cinema and see just how badly they fucked things up– resulting in a profit and ultimately a general consensus that remakes are a good thing– they...
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