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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 Mar 8th, 2010 | View Comments

Thoughts on a ground-breaking Oscars ceremony (82nd Academy Awards)

It used to be that I’d have to endure a media blockout through an entire Monday so I could enjoy the Oscars telecast. As it happens live on a Sunday night in the States, it’s actually around 10AM Monday morning in Australia, and in the past the TV network screening the event wouldn’t do so until the prime time slot later that evening, usually 8 or 9 pm. This meant having to avoid all...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Summer review round-up: the good, the bad and the ugly

Way back in the beginning of December, in our first week of existence, I posted a list of the five most anticipated films of the summer. Now that it is officially autumn (even if the weather obstinately refuses to accept this incontravertible truth), it’s the perfect time to look back over the past three months and put the summer releases in perspective. There were a few surprises, some hits and some...
Posted by Robin Hare on Feb 23rd, 2010 | View Comments

BAFTA awards snub AVATAR, earn my respect

Ah, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts: Britain’s answer to the Academy Awards. I don’t think I know any people who speak of the BAFTAs (or the Golden Globes, for that matter) when comparing the calibre and critical worth of films; it’s always the Oscars that everyone talks about ten years after the fact. But the Oscars are weird and unpredictable, especially when it comes to...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 24th, 2010 | View Comments

UP IN THE AIR never really soars: review

George Clooney is just one of those guys you can depend on: call it predictable, call it a lack of versatility, but Clooney nails that old-fashioned / modern / classy triumvirate in every single film he’s in. If that’s a style you buy into, he has a nice long filmography for you to browse to your heart’s content, to which you can blindly add his latest outing. If, however, you got sick of...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 4th, 2009 | View Comments

UP IN THE AIR & INVICTUS get awards season head-start from NBR

The National Board of Review has given Up In The Air a good head-start to the upcoming awards season, honouring it as Best Picture of 2009 and awarding its star George Clooney Best Actor (sharing with Morgan Freeman in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus… even despite his questionable accent). Up In The Air is director Jason Reitman’s third film (following Thank You For Smoking and Juno), and has been...
Posted by mrthinker on Nov 11th, 2009 | View Comments

UP IN THE AIR new trailer to keep you high

Who would have thought that dude from ER would be the Frank Sinatra of our generation? (Without the singing). George Clooney is box office gold at the moment. One of his new films, Up In The Air, directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) has been making a big splash online after it played at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. There’s even thought it could make a play at the...
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