| Twilight vs 007: which film do you most want to see? |
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| Posted on Saturday, 30 August 2008 by Don |
Here's a surprise: According to one survey, more US cinemagoers are looking forward to seeing vampire romance Twilight than the new 007 adventure, Quantum of Solace. That may not mean Twilight makes more money than the Bond, but it does point to a high level of excitement and expectation for the fantasy based on Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novel. Ticketing service Fandango.com ran an online poll, asking: “If you could choose only one movie to see in the next four months... Find out more... | 1 Comments |
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| New release date for Baz's Australia |
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| Posted on Saturday, 30 August 2008 by Don |
Baz Luhrmann's World War II-set romantic epic Australia has a new release date: November 26. Fox pushed back the launch from November 13, primarily to allow the director more time to finish the film after he brought back leads Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman for additional shooting. The movie will open on the same day in the US, where it will enable Fox to benefit from the less-crowded November period following Warner Bros.' decision to postpone Harry Potter and the Half-Blo... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Simon Pegg learns How to Lose Friends and Alienate People |
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| Posted on Friday, 29 August 2008 by Don |
As someone who writes for a living, I usually don't find comedies about journos to be funny or even remotely close to being credible. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People may be an exception, judging by the trailer and its top-notch cast led by Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst and Jeff Bridges. Pegg, who was terrific in Hot Fuzz and Run, Fatboy Run, plays a naive journo who lands a dream job with an upscale New York magazine, with Bridges as the feisty editor and Kirsten as hi... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Burn After Reading: an inspired lark, or just silly? |
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| Posted on Friday, 29 August 2008 by Don |
Depending on which critic you read, the Coen brothers' Burn After Reading is either a clever, goofy spy comedy with an A-list cast at the top of their game-- or a silly, fumbled sex farce mated with a political thriller. Brad Pitt stars as Chad, a pea-brained Washington gym trainer who finds a computer disc containing the explosive memoirs of ousted CIA agent Osborne (John Malkovich). Chad tries to blackmail Osborne to help his colleague Linda (Frances McDormand) get the ex... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Who are the real Hellboys and girls? |
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| Posted on Friday, 29 August 2008 by Don |
Ron Perlman is pretty cool as the cigar-chomping, cat-loving, crime-fighting Hellboy-- but he's a pussycat compared with some of Hollywood's true hellboys and girls. For sheer venom and evil, it's hard to beat Linda Blair's head-spinning, spewing, demon-possessed Regan MacNeil in The Exorcist, and Harvey Stephens' destructive Damien Thorn in The Omen. Or the sprog in Rosemary's Baby who tried to kill his mum while he was still in her womb. Jack Nicholson was at h... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Disaster strikes again! |
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| Posted on Friday, 29 August 2008 by Don |
Iron Man, Hannah Montana, Indiana Jones, Hancock, Amy Winehouse, Sex and the City and Juno all get lampooned in Disaster Movie, the latest spoof from the makers of Epic Movie, Date Movie and Meet the Spartans. What's loosely described as the plot follows the misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive young folk as they flee from a series of catastrophic events - asteroids, twisters, earthquakes, you name it. I'm guessing not a lot was spent to hire the cast, who... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| And now for Mamma Mia!, karaoke-style! |
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| Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2008 by Don |
If you enjoyed Mamma Mia!, you'll be thrilled to know a special sing-a-long version will launch at selected cinemas on September 5. Yes, you can sing out loud alongside Meryl Streep and the rest of the cast to tunes such as Dancing Queen, SOS and Money, Money, Money, with the lyrics on screen. Universal just confirmed the Australian premiere not long after it was announced that the sing-a-long edition will screen in 100 markets in the US. In Oz, the locations inc... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Crowe and DiCaprio butt heads in Body of Lies |
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| Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2008 by Don |
Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio bounce off each other in Body of Lies, a spy thriller directed by Ridley Scott. Judging by the trailer, there's some tense stand-offs between Crowe's CIA boss Ed Hoffman and DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a former journalist hired by the agency to track down a terrorist leader in Jordan. And, as you'd expect from Scott, plenty of action and firepower. It's based on the novel by Washington Times' foreign affairs journo David Ignatiu... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Doug Jones finds his voice, at last, in Hellboy II |
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| Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2008 by Don |
For a time, Doug Jones had to resign himself to being seen but not heard in Hollywood films. The actor played Abe Sapien in the Guillermo del Toro's first Hellboy adventure, and, to his chagrin, the character's voice was dubbed by David Hyde Pierce. Even more gallingly, Doug was the Silver Surfer in the last Fantastic Four epic, and the filmmakers decided to substitute Laurence Fishburne's rather monotonous voice. And in del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Doug's Fauno/Pale Man was... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Dennis Hopper's near death experience in Mad Dog Morgan |
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| Posted on Thursday, 28 August 2008 by Don |
Dennis Hopper was so loaded up with booze and pills while he was filming Mad Dog Morgan in Victoria in 1976, he nearly died. The now-clean American actor reveals just how close in Not Quite Hollywood, Mark Hartley's entertaining homage to the Australian genre films of the 1970s and 80s. "Dennis was a wild and crazy guy," says Hartley, who interviewed Hopper in Los Angeles. "I think he was happy to be reacquainted with all the stories that happened, such as being arrested an... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| WALL.E: a robot love story in a world without humans |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008 by Don |
Pixar's latest animated treat, WALL.E is a terrific, funny movie, essentially a love story between the last robot on Earth and a visiting robot. Yet it depicts a bleak future where mankind has trashed the Earth to the point where it's no longer inhabitable, and bloated, inert humans are living aboard a giant spaceship controlled by a faceless corporation. Writer-director Andrew Stanton is quick to point out that when he and colleague Pete Docter conceived the idea in 1994, ... Find out more... | 1 Comments | buy tickets |
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| In Bruges: finding humour and humanity in evil |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008 by Don |
Ray and Ken are Irish hit men who are forced to hide out in Belgium after a job in London goes horribly wrong and a child is murdered. The premise of In Bruges sounds grim-- but it's a film full of black humour, charm and redemption thanks to writer-director Martin McDonagh and a top-notch cast led by Colin Farrell, Brendon Gleeson (pictured) and Ralph Fiennes. Farrell is Ray, who is near suicidal after the botched London job. Gleeson is Ken, who's almost a father figure de... Find out more... | 9 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Luke Goss a master of disguise in Hellboy II |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008 by Don |
Luke Goss is actually quite handsome, but you'd never know it if you see him as the evil elf Prince Nuada in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Goss, pictured with Anna Walton, who plays his twin sister Princess Nuala, spent five hours each day in make-up. That was a chore, but the London-born actor had no qualms about sacrificing his ego. "Being recognized in the street, I don't care about that," said Goss, who had plenty of recognition when he was a member ... Find out more... | 1 Comments | buy tickets |
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| An Aussie star was born in BMX Bandits |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008 by Don |
Do you recognize the teenage girl in this pic? Well done if you said Nicole Kidman. It's a still from her first film, BMX Bandits, shot in 1983 when she was just 16, and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, who clearly had a good eye for emerging talent. As the first Aussie action film for kids, it merits inclusion in Not Quite Hollywood, Mark Hartley's documentary on the sex, violence and horror movies of the 1970s and 80s. It featured Nicole as the friend of two ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Transformers II: bigger, darker and different! |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 27 August 2008 by Don |
Compared with the original Transformers movie, the sequel will be darker, more expensive and quite different. We have that on the good authority of Roberto Orci, co-writer of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. "The first movie is all about the mystery and reveal of the Transformers as a concept and a species, which means we had to hide them a lot in the first hour," Orci told a fan forum. "In the second movie, now that everyone believes in the universe, we can jump right... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| New scenes to give Twilight a bit more spice |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 by Don |
The cast and crew of Twilight are back in action, filming new scenes over three days this week. It isn't unusual to recall everyone for additional filming after principal photography has finished; Baz Luhrmann's Australia is doing just that. And the Twilight actors say there's no cause for alarm."They liked it so much, they are bringing us back for some encore time — to beef it up," Peter Facinelli, who plays vampire patriarch Carlisle Cullen, told MTV News. "A little sal... Find out more... | 4 Comments |
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| Stripping for the camera: Lynette Curran revisits Alvin Purple |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 by Don |
When Tim Burstall directed sex-farce Alvin Purple in 1973, he offered actresses who were skittish about taking their gear off an extra $500. Sadly for Lynette Curran, who played a character billed simply as First Sugar Girl, she didn't get to hear about the offer until she first saw the film- a specially remastered version- last month, 35 years too late. And what made her more miffed was hearing from Graeme Blundell (who played the irresistible Alvin) that Jacki Weaver, who... Find out more... | 1 Comments |
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| Selma Blair fires up for Hellboy II |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 by Don |
When we last saw Selma Blair's Liz in Hellboy, the title character's pyrokinetic girlfriend was hesitant, afraid and unsure how to handle her flame-throwing powers. Four years later, Hellboy II: The Golden Army finds Liz much more comfortable in her own skin and still in love with the cigar-chomping crime-fighter. So that would be an easier assignment for Selma, right? Wrong. "It was difficult for me to play her as a more stable girl," says the spunky actress who has starre... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Nicole running hard for a hit? |
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| Posted on Monday, 25 August 2008 by Don |
It would be an under-statement to say Nicole Kidman needs a hit after the disappointments of The Golden Compass, The Invasion and Margot at the Wedding. Can Australia, Baz Luhrmann's romantic epic, restore Nic's tarnished reputation? Let's hope so for her sake and those of everyone else involved in the $100 million movie, which opens in November. This new still from the film, as well as the trailer, points to plenty of action and spectacle. Nicole play... Find out more... | 1 Comments |
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| Tropic Thunder wins the Oz box-office war |
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| Posted on Monday, 25 August 2008 by Don |
The Dark Knight's majestic 5-week reign at the Australian box-office is over-- but it took a bunch of Hollywood superstars to do it. Tropic Thunder, the Hollywood spoof directed by and starring Ben Stiller, seized the top spot last weekend, gunning down an impressive $3.05 million. I'd suggest the shrewd casting of Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Tom Cruise combined with a smart script and great battle scenes that rival the best war movies, ensured a sizable opening and s... Find out more... | 1 Comments |
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