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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 30th, 2010 | View Comments

Cop an eyeful of this SUCKER PUNCH banner

Here’s something I’d expect to see hanging in a video games store– a new banner for Zack Snyder‘s upcoming action revenge flick Sucker Punch. I didn’t know what to expect when the first trailer finally arrived earlier this week, but I guess I should have expected something loaded with lavish CGI from the director of 300 and Watchmen. There’s absolutely no doubt Sucker Punch...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jul 27th, 2010 | View Comments

Zack Snyder’s SUCKER PUNCH gets trailered

It feels like it was only yesterday I was frowning about the relentless video game-ificiation of movies, and then this comes along and furrows my brow even further. Sucker Punch looks like it would be remarkably fun to play, what with all the exciting and exotic level designs and varied enemy types, but whether or not it’ll be fun to watch is a different question. Again, the fetishisation of violence and...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 14th, 2010 | View Comments

When character posters get ridiculous: LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS

First, let me state that I’m not making this up– this here is real. I had to double-check and make sure it wasn’t some lame attempt at a bad joke, but it’s fair-dinkum. I’ll start with the title: Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole. If you’re in a public place, read that out loud and count how many people point and laugh at you. I’d be interested to...
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 Apr 26th, 2010 | View Comments

High hopes for A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET reboot

When I think of 80s cinema two things in particular come to mind: science fiction, and adventure films. Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Back To The Future, The Thing, Blade Runner — these are the classics that spring to mind. What I don’t usually think of is the horror franchises spawned in the 80s, like the Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street or Halloween flicks. I’ve never seen any of...
Posted by Robin Hare on Apr 7th, 2010 | View Comments

THE LOSERS trailer is full of yellow things

  I sure hope you like the colour yellow, because The Losers appears to have a lot of it: cars, locations, explosions and even lights fill the screen with colours like gold and custard and mustard and … why do those words rhyme? Because they’re both yellow foods? Huh. The Losers is about a bunch of special-ops soldier-types who get betrayed by their agencies and decide to take revenge. Pretty dull...
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 Robin Hare on Jan 10th, 2010 | View Comments

SPIDER-MAN review: power, responsibility, spandex

2002 was something of a big year for high-concept fantasy blockbusters. Spider-Man debuted strongly even against the inevitable power of the second Star Wars prequel, Attack Of The Clones, and then later in the year the second Harry Potter flick duked it out against the middle Lord Of The Rings. Those of us lucky enough to be that perfect target-demographic age of 12 that year found ourselves going to the...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Froley’s Top 5 of 2009

Just kidding, New Moon is not only not in my top 5, it is one of the worst movies of all time. But now that I’ve got your attention, let’s look at 5 movies that were actually worthwhile in the otherwise weak cinematical year that was 2009. Bear in mind that up until December I wasn’t reviewing everything I saw, and I generally didn’t go out of my way to catch smaller or more obscure...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 2nd, 2009 | View Comments

NEW MOON was the only film to crack Google most-searched of 2009

Might as well face facts and accept that Twilight is as huge as it is and will be around for a few more years yet, especially with the third film being released in July and reports that the fourth book might be doing a Harry Potter and being split into two films. To further prove Twilight’s dominance as a pop-culture force to be reckoned with, Google have revealed as part of their annual Zeitgeist...
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