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| Ben-Rutherford has previously worked at 2 of the big 4 record companies in the music industry and has now landed on his feet in Movie-land, working in the marketing department at Greater Union. With a fascination and passion for the entertainment industry plus experience living in the US for 3 years with his family as a teenager, Ben likes to think he brings a worldly view to the table but hey, who is he kidding. |
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| Claire Gandy has absolutely nothing except a love for film that qualifies her to write anything worth reading, and that she is unbelievably honest and will give anything a chance. A huge supporter of the local film and arts industry, and has a genuine passion for it, being at several times, in front, behind and next to the camera too. She likes Pina Colada’s and long walks in the rain. We can’t back that up. |
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| Will Conway has had an undeniable love for film ever since his directorial debut at the age of 12 bringing the classic Steinbeck novel ‘The Pearl’ to the year seven class room. Will has worked for a number of years within the industry in roles as varied as cinema usher to regional marketing and back, currently in a position within the GU film department. Will loves all things ‘not cool’ including spending way too much time on the Xbox, comic book films and any form of Star Wars merchandise. |
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| Panda power rocks the Oz box-office |
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| Posted on Monday, 30 June 2008 by Don |
Kung Fu Panda drew kids and families to Australian cinemas over the weekend, while older patrons re-lived or discovered anew the homage to 1960s classic comedy Get Smart. Well promoted by star Jack Black, the Panda pic grabbed $5.2 million, the third highest debut for DreamWorks Animation behind the last two editions of the Shrek franchise. That brings its tally to a hefty $7.2 million, including previews. Get Smart whistled up $4.2 million, benefitting from the Australian ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Hellboy II: a freaky monster movie we can laugh at? |
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| Posted on Monday, 30 June 2008 by Don |
A truly funny monster movie? I'd like to see that, and that's what's in store in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, according to the first couple of reviews. Empire mag hails Guillermo del Toro's sequel as "light years ahead" of the 2004 original, and Variety predicts it will convert people who aren't horror/fantasy fans. Both Empire and Variety say Hellboy II is much funnier than the original, with much of the humour revolving around a new character, Johann Krauss, a German-acce... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| US cinemagoers love Pixar's robot and gunslinger Jolie |
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| Posted on Monday, 30 June 2008 by Don |
Pixar's charming tale of the last robot on a mankind-deserted Earth and Angelina Jolie kicking butt proved an irresistible combination for US cinemagoers over the weekend. WALL*E reigned, ringing up $63 million, marking the third biggest debut for a Pixar film after The Incredibles and Finding Nemo, and the second best June opening of all time after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The family film from Finding Nemo writer-director Andrew Stanton was adored by the c... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| The Dark Knight- Best Batman ever? |
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| Posted on Sunday, 29 June 2008 by Don |
The Dark Knight isn't just a better movie than Batman Begins--it's the best Batpic of all, according to MTV's Larry Carroll. And Collider.com hails Christopher Nolan's movie as a "masterpiece...flawless from beginning to end." So, more raves for the movie which opens on July 16 after the Rolling Stone review we wrote about yesterday. "Your mouth will drop every time Heath Ledger's Joker walks onscreen, you will want to own a Batpod, and you'll marvel at the incre... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Where's Charlize in all the Hancock hype? |
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| Posted on Saturday, 28 June 2008 by Don |
Charlize Theron has a major, pivotal role in Hancock- but in the ads and publicity campaign in the US, it's almost as if she's the Invisible Woman. How come? Sure, it's being hyped, rightly, as a Will Smith vehicle, with the world's most charismatic actor as a down-and-almost-out superhero. There's been plenty of attention for Jason Bateman as Ray the PR guy whose life Hancock saves- but very little for Charlize as Ray's wife Mary. Theron is an Oscar winner (for Monster),... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| First Dark Knight review: 'an absolute stunner' |
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| Posted on Saturday, 28 June 2008 by Don |
For months, I've been desperate to see Heath Ledger's apparently mesmerizing performance in The Dark Knight. My anticipation just jumped five-fold after spotting the first review of the movie, which opens on July 16. To call it a rave is almost an understatement. Rolling Stone's Peter Travers was blown away, hailing Christopher Nolan's epic as an 'absolute stunner,' packed with feverish action, dazzling spectacle and devilish fun. The mercifully spoiler-free review describe... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| WALL*E: a romance that's truly out of this world |
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| Posted on Friday, 27 June 2008 by Don |
Some US critics say WALL*E features one of the most moving love stories of recent years. If so, that's quite astonishing- because the romance is between two robots. And the male droid speaks only two words of English. He is Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class (WALL*), the last, lonely robot left on the planet 700 years after mankind has abandoned the Earth. He keeps compacting garbage because no one has told him to stop, with only a pet cockroach and a videotape of Hello, Dolly t... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| James McAvoy: From wimp to warrior in Wanted |
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| Posted on Friday, 27 June 2008 by Don |
Handsome chap that he is, James McAvoy looks too weedy to be an action hero, doesn't he? Sure, which is precisely why he won the lead role in Wanted. He plays Wesley, a lowly, nervy office worker with a boss he can't stand and a girlfriend who's cheating on him. All that changes when he meet the sexy Fox (Angelina Jolie), who informs him he's the son of the world's greatest assassin and that his mission is to join a secret fraternity of killers, called the Fraternity. Al... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Where is Hancock headed? |
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| Posted on Thursday, 26 June 2008 by Ben |
Hollywood mega-star, Will Smith, stars as John Hancock - a drunk living in LA with superhuman powers but no ambition of being a superhero. Ignoring the trailer and bits and pieces leaked on the web, Hancock is not what I expected. While the action adventure scenes and special effects will blow you away, the story line is somewhat all over the place. When I first saw the trailer, I could barely wait to see Hancock. I'm a Will Smith fan and when you add Jason Bateman and the gorgeous Ch... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| From small to big screen: triumphs and tragedies |
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| Posted on Thursday, 26 June 2008 by Don |
From Batman, Charlie’s Angels and Mission:Impossible through to The Simpsons and Sex and the City, TV series have inspired some fabulous movies—and some stinkers. I haven’t seen it yet but Get Smart seems to be among the more effective TV-to-cinema transitions. How do you rank it? It’s no surprise that producers frequently raid the TV vaults to come up with projects they’re convinced can be updated and transferred successfully to the big screen. But for every M... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Pierce bonds with Meryl in Mamma Mia! |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 by Don |
After playing ultra-smoothies all those years, Pierce Brosnan gets the chance in Mamma Mia! to sing, dance and wear spandex fishtail flares and high-heel boots. Oh, and to woo Meryl Streep. The actor who made his name as TV's Remington Steele before a seven-year stint as James Bond loved the scenes with Ms Streep- which red-blooded male over a certain age would not?—but the prospect of singing for the first time in his career terrified him. To prepare, he went to London to ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Kung Fu Panda brings out the Tigress in Angelina Jolie |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 by Don |
Keen followers of the life and times of Angelina Jolie will know she had a large tattoo of a Bengal tiger engraved on her lower back a few years ago. So it’s just a co-incidence that she voices a kung fu warrior named Tigress in DreamWorks’ animated hit Kung Fu Panda. It wasn’t that tatt or the fact that her sons Maddox and Pax were adopted from Asia which persuaded Ang to take the role-- it was the chance to work on a film she sees as uplifting. “The truth is ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Jason Bateman bounces off superhero Will Smith in Hancock |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 by Don |
Suppose you're married to a hot-looking woman played by Charlize Theron, alcoholic, down-and-out superhero Will Smith saves your life, and you mount a campaign to turn around Will's image and his life. And, far from being grateful, this superhero Hancock appears to hit on your wife. That's the neat conceit of Hancock, no ordinary superhero comedy-adventure, which opens on July 3. Jason Bateman jumped at the chance to play Ray, the idealistic PR executive who tries to help H... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Looking for a laugh - Get Smart will do the trick |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 by Ben |
Get Smart had me laughing out loud right from the beginning. Admittedly I'm a Steve Carell fan but how can you not be a fan when he's got the ability to play a straight face whilst making an absolute idiot of himself as Maxwell Smart. Carell's dry sense of humour is what sets him apart from others - think Brick Tamland in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy or Evan Baxter in Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty. The man knows how to make people laugh. Although the chemistry between Care... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Is Hollywood stuck in a time warp? |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 by Don |
Hollywood has been churning out historical epics for decades, but we're going to be deluged with an unusually large volume of period dramas in the next six or seven months. So many, it's prompted media critic Robert Thompson to observe, "It seems like Hollywood is merging with the History Channel." For example, World War II is the setting of Baz Luhrmann's Australia (pictured), Ed Zwick's Defiance, Mikael Hafstrom's Shanghai, Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna and Bryan Sing... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Finally, a few X-Files movie secrets revealed! |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 24 June 2008 by Don |
From the fog of secrecy surrounding X-Files: I Want to Believe, the filmmakers finally hav revealed a few key points about the plot and characters. David Duchovny's Mulder is still looking for his long-lost sister Samantha, refusing to believe she's dead. Mulder and Gillian Anderson's Scully bicker as she says, "This isn't my life anymore." He walks away, muttering, "I'm trying to ignore you." Billy Connolly plays a psychic priest, Father Joe, who helps the agen... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Thanks for covering up in Get Smart, Ken! |
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| Posted on Monday, 23 June 2008 by Don |
Ken Davitian was so grotesquely funny in his nude wrestling scene with the infamous Khazikstan reporter in Borat, it's a relief to see he keeps his clothes on in Get Smart. Davitian plays Shtarker, henchman to Terence Stamp's KAOS head Siegfried. As for how he approached the role, Ken says, "You follow Terence Stamp. You do whatever he tells you to do because you work for him. But the only thing that has to be done all the time is causing chaos. It's like you're a three year old. You'... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| The not-so Incredible Hulk: please, no more! |
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| Posted on Monday, 23 June 2008 by Don |
Almost everyone connected with The Incredible Hulk expressed the hope that the film would perform strongly enough to justify a sequel. Die-hard Hulkamaniacs may disagree, but I think another outing would be a bad idea. You only have to look at the superhero adventure's second weekend plunges in the US and Australia to see many cinemagoers are no more enamoured of the 2008 version than they were with the original Hulk. In the US, the movie tumbled by 60%, raking in $22.1... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| You don't mess with Adam Sandler! |
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| Posted on Monday, 23 June 2008 by Don |
Critics schmitics! Adam Sandler fans cheerfully ignored all those carping reviews for You Don't Mess with the Zohan to give the actor his best ever opening in Australia. The comedy starring Sandler as an Israeli agent turned New York hairdresser cut a fine $4.27 million last weekend, easily the No. 1 title. That beat Sandler's previous high, Click, which took $4 million in its first weekend and had the advantage of opening during school vacation two years ago. T... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Smart Steve Carell wallops dumb Mike Myers |
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| Posted on Monday, 23 June 2008 by Don |
In any contest, smart will always beat dumb. So it proved in the US last weekend as the Steve Carell comedy Get Smart smashed the Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru. Carell's take on bumbling agent Maxwell Smart, with Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, showed it was a smart decision to update the iconic 1960s TV series. The movie, which opens here this week, topped the US box-office, scoring $38.7 million from 3,900 screens. That's a personal best for both Carell, beating the opening ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| The Spirit aims to make it real, totally |
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| Posted on Sunday, 22 June 2008 by Don |
The Spirit might just set a new standard in CGI-dominated films: presenting human characters that look 100% real. That's the aim of writer-director Frank Miller, the Sin City creator who's adapting the movie from the comic book series created by Will Eisner. "While Spielberg showed us all that giant reptiles from our distant past were scary as all get out, there hasn’t been a single CGI “human” who’s convinced," says Miller in The Spirit's blog. "As a viewer, I ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Cocky Will Smith struts his stuff in Hancock |
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| Posted on Saturday, 21 June 2008 by Don |
No one would accuse Will Smith of false modesty, and his new movie, Hancock, gives him another chance to display his, um, charms. Playing a troubled superhero, he gets to wear a rubber suit for the first time in his career- and it's a flattering look, apparently. "September 25th I’ll be 40 years old, so I figure it was the time if I were going to accentuate my manhood with a rubber suit - that now was the time,” he said on British television before the film's London premier... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Shia and Megan get it on in Transformers 2 |
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| Posted on Saturday, 21 June 2008 by Don |
In Transformers, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox were so busy running from Autobots and Decepticons, there was no time for romance. Not so in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. “Shia and I make out a little bit," Megan tells MTV. "I don’t know if anyone wants to see that." Speaking on behalf of the male population: Yes, Megan, we do. If you enjoyed the first movie, the sequel aims to top that. "This is 10 times as big, 10 times as many set pieces, explosions, and acrobatic stu... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Please stop with all these best lists! |
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| Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 by Don |
Nearly every week someone comes up with a top/best list of movies. I wish they'd give it a rest. These lists are so subjective and often the criteria is poorly defined, if at all, most are a waste of space. A serial offender, Entertainment Weekly has been counting down the best films made in the past 25 years. Here's its top 10: 1. Pulp Fiction 2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy 3. Titanic 4. Blue Velvet 5. Toy Story 6. Hannah and Her Sisters 7. ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Jackie Chan and Jet Li: dream team in Forbidden Kingdom |
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| Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 by Don |
Jackie Chan and Jet Li wanted to make a movie together for years. Ironically, it took a Hollywood production to unite the action stars. Forbidden Kingdom sees Chan as kung fu master Lu Yan and Li as Silent Monk. They come to the aid of a Boston teenager and kung fu movie fan Jason (Michael Angarano) after he's thrust back in time to ancient China to free the Monkey King. Directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King, Stuart Little), the movie was shot entirely in China, with actio... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Good news: Death Race 2008 is nothing like Speed Racer! |
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| Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 by |
Ever since director Paul W.S. Anderson announced he was 're-imagining' Roger Corman's 1975 classic Death Race, fans of the original film have been fretting. The trailer for the new version looks like Running Man with cars, some griped. They asked: Don't a lot of pedestrians get killed? And where are the cameos of David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone, who starred in Corman's film? Death Race stars Jason Statham as a guy who's convicted for a horrific murder he didn't comm... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Not a lot of love for Mike Myers' The Love Guru |
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| Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 by Don |
If The Happening director M. Night Shyamalan is the most maligned guy in Hollywood right now, Mike Myers can't be far behind. The Love Guru, his first live action film since Cat in the Hat five years ago, has triggered a wave of anti-Myers sentiment. Most critics hate his schtick as a fake self-help guru who tries to help a star hockey player win back his wife from a rival player (Justin Timberlake). Jessica Alba plays the team's owner and Mini-me Verne Troyer is the coach. |
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| The Godfather: the best gangster movie ever? |
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| Posted on Thursday, 19 June 2008 by Don |
The American Film Institute has released its annual list of the greatest 100 movies of all time, divided into 10 genres. Listed below is the best film in each genre, as judged by a jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians. I wouldn't quibble with most choices, particularly The Godfather, The Wizard of Oz and Snow White. However City Lights could be obscure to all but Charlie Chaplin fans, and the list does beg an obvious question: Was no movie made since 1980 (w... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Sandler, whipped cream and a brave lady.... |
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| Posted on Thursday, 19 June 2008 by Don |
This may sound tacky, but there's no other way to describe it: One sequence in You Don't Mess with the Zohan involves Adam Sandler, a woman of a certain age, and whipped cream. To be specific: Sandler as Zohan, an Israeli commando turned New York hairdresser, whom his senior citizen clients find irresistible, has whipped cream licked off his nipples by one of his admirers. The actor cheerfully admits that shooting that scene was the "most nervous and the most nauseous" for ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Dustin Hoffman wrestles with Kung Fu Panda |
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| Posted on Thursday, 19 June 2008 by Don |
As gifted and accomplished an actor as Dustin Hoffman is, working on Kung Fu Panda, his first animated film, was a real challenge. Stripped of the usual tools of make-up and costume, Hoffman was alone in the recording studio with not even a full script, just the scenes he was to record-- and he struggled. "That first session was very difficult for him," co-director John Stevenson told the Movie Blog. "It took him a while to realize we wanted a real performance from him, not... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Sex, violence and horror: the forgotten era of Oz cinema |
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| Posted on Thursday, 19 June 2008 by Don |
If you weren't there, the 1970s was an exciting time for Australian cinema as we witnessed the birth of the bawdy Ocker comedy, personified by The Adventures of Bazza McKenzie, Stork and Alvin Purple. And the emergence of some crudely-made but entertaining thriller, horror and action films including Mad Max, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Stone and Patrick. The 'Ozploitation' era is joyously celebrated in Not Quite Hollywood, a feature-length doc which packs in cli... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Mongol: the human side of a tyrant |
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| Posted on Thursday, 19 June 2008 by Don |
Genghis Khan got a deservedly bad rap as the 13th century conqueror and founder of the Mongol empire. But the guy was also a tender lover, a doting father who had to live with the knowledge that one of his sons was fathered by another man, and a spiritual person. That's according to Russian director Sergei Bodrov's epic Mongol, which traces his rise from an enslaved childhood to ruler and, in Mongolia at least, an enduring national hero. "You want clanging sword... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Sandler's Zohan messes with Jews, Arabs and sex-starved seniors |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 by Don |
You gotta hand it to Adam Sandler. Few comedy actors/writers would dare make fun of so many potentially sensitive targets in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Such as: Relations between Arabs and Israelis; a Palestinian terrorist played by John Turturro; randy old women; Israeli stores with names like Going Out of Business; and the Jewish and Arab fondness for haggling. Then there's Sandler's character, a fabulously well-endowed hairdresser who is a matron magnet, as opposed t... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| The Rock lays a smackdown on Get Smart |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 by Don |
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was so keen to work with Steve Carell in the Get Smart movie, he had no qualms about taking on a relatively minor role-- or puckering up to Carell. The wrestler-turned-actor saw the film as another chance to build his credentials in comedy after starring roles in The Game Plan and actioners The Mummy Returns, The Scorpion King and The Rundown. In Get Smart, he's Agent 23, a Bond-like alpha spy and ladies' man who mentors Smart (Carell) while compet... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| The Happening: could something that awful really happen? |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 by Don |
If you've seen The Happening, you may be wondering: Could those scarifying events actually happen, or are they purely a figment of M. Night Shyamalan's over-heated imagination? The writer-director says he consulted scientists and other academics at the University of Massachusetts to test whether his ideas were possible, probable or impossible, and that his script draws on what he learned about toxins, plants and how the brain works. The plot hinges on the notion that plant... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| X-Files movie no joke for Billy Connolly |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 by Don |
Billy Connolly is such a funny guy, he's one of the last people you'd expect to see caught up in paranormal events in X-Files: I Want to Believe. And what are we to make of this pic showing blood pouring from his eyes in the movie, which opens on July 24? Such is the secrecy surrounding the production, we don't even know who he's playing. Last month he said that working on the film was like "being followed by the CIA." He noted that cast members were given a copy of each ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Scarlett and Eva set to sizzle in The Spirit |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 17 June 2008 by Jess |
The thought of Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L Jackson working together is enough to send some people into movie heaven. Throw Frank Miller into the mix and I'll be the first to join you! 'The Spirit' is the latest offering from Frank Miller and is based on the 1940's comic book series by Will Eisner by the same name. It looks like it's shaping up to be visually very much like Sin City: the teaser trailer is dark and very film noir, and has many of the characteristics tha... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Rob Schneider gets to mess with the Zohan |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 17 June 2008 by Don |
When you see an Adam Sandler comedy, you can bet his great mate and former Saturday Night Live colleague Rob Schneider will bob up; maybe it's a clause in Adam's contract. In You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Schneider (pictured) plays Salim, a Palestinian cab driver who moves to New York to pursue his dreams. Salim has carried a grudge against Sandler's Zohan ever since Zohan stole his goat when they were young. When he spots Zohan, a former Israeli commando working in New York as a ha... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Was there a brain inside that Crystal Skull? |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 17 June 2008 by Don |
If the crystal skull at the centre of the latest Indiana Jones adventure is so magnetic it can pluck metal shavings out of the air from hundreds of metres away, why doesn't it attract other objects when it's in a jeep-- like bullets or guns? And when Indy shelters in a lead-lined refrigerator, could he really have survived a nuclear blast? Artful Writer Craig Maizin triggered a lively debate on the net when he raised these questions in an article on the need for a Logic Naz... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Wanted: an action movie that's right for Angelina? |
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| Posted on Monday, 16 June 2008 by Don |
As Tomb Raider Lara Croft, Angelina Jolie didn't do it for me: the character was too one-dimensional and over-the-top to be a convincing female Indiana Jones. Judging by the trailer, Angelina looks much more at ease in her next action movie, Wanted, playing Fox, an assassin with a conscience who mentors nerdy James McAvoy to help him avenge the murder of his father. "Maybe this is Mrs. Smith after she killed Mr. Smith, went into depression, and got very, very, very moody," ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| The Happening: disaster averted! |
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| Posted on Monday, 16 June 2008 by Don |
It wasn't the disaster some pundits had predicted, if not actively rooted for, but The Happening's opening numbers haven't resolved the debate over writer-director M. Night Shyamalan: is he a one-trick pony who got lucky with The Sixth Sense and will never match that level of success? The horror/thriller scared up $30.5 million in the US, better than most predictions and a big improvement on his last, lousy effort, Lady in the Water, which sank without trace after an $18 million debut... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| The Incredible Hulk sees lots of green |
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| Posted on Monday, 16 June 2008 by Don |
The Incredible Hulk smashed its way to the top of the box-office in the US at the weekend- but couldn't match the girlpower of the Sex and the City Movie, which reigned in its second weekend in Australia. In the US, the Marvel superhero grabbed $55.4 million, a strong number although below the earlier Hulk movie's $62.1 million debut. Here, Edward Norton's Hulk made $2 million, No. 3 behind Sex and the City, which earned $4.5 million (down 43%) to bring its tally to $15.8 m... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Why did Speed Racer crash and burn? |
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| Posted on Monday, 16 June 2008 by Don |
Speed Racer hit a brick wall at Australian cinemas last weekend, no great surprise after the action-adventure bombed in the US and other territories. Which raises the question: Why did the Wachowski brothers' first foray into PG-rated family fare fail to connect with audiences anywhere? I can suggest numerous reasons. I'm sure a lot of people knew of its US demise and, like me, were put off by the mostly negative reviews. The trailer made the film look like a ca... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Pay cuts for superstars? |
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| Posted on Sunday, 15 June 2008 by Don |
The economics of producing Hollywood movies haven't made a lot of sense ever since stars began commanding $US20 million-plus per picture and budgets rocketed to the point where Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and even Speed Racer each cost around $150 million. Rather belatedly, the studios are trying to bring some common sense and fairness to the process by rejigging rich deals with A-list actors. In essence, they're arguing that superstars should no longer reap the rew... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Lay off Katherine, you sexist schmucks! |
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| Posted on Saturday, 14 June 2008 by Don |
Sexism is alive and well in Hollywood. After all the misogynist rubbish written about the Sex and the City Movie, 27 Dresses star Katherine Heigl is the target of a firestorm of criticism. Her sin? The actress who stars in Grey's Anatomy had the gall to withdraw from this year's Emmy race. Why? Because she didn't feel "I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination," and she said she wants to maintain the "integrity of the academy organization." That se... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Will Hellboy II grab you if the first Hellboy didn't? |
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| Posted on Saturday, 14 June 2008 by Don |
I skipped the first Hellboy adventure, not being immediately attracted to the idea of a snarling red-horned superhero. But I'm starting to think Hellboy II: The Golden Army may actually be worth catching, judging by the trailer and interviews I've just read with Hellboy himself, Ron Perlman, and Doug Jones, who plays Abe Sapien and a variety of other characters and creatures (I hope he got paid well!). Guillermo del Toro's new sci-fi/fantasy, which opens in August, follows ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| The Bank Job: a fresh take on a familiar genre |
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| Posted on Friday, 13 June 2008 by Don |
When The Bank Job opened in the US earlier this year, some critics hailed it as the best heist movie they'd seen in years. I don't recall many heist movies recently, but the praise seems genuine for a film based on the true story of a 1971 London bank robbery. "It's the best crafted and most gripping low-key suspense thriller I've seen in ages," said Hollywood Elsewhere's Jeff Wells. It stars tough-guy Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows (pictured) and is directed... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| The Incredible Hulk vs The Happening: who'll win? |
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| Posted on Friday, 13 June 2008 by Don |
It's being hailed as the battle of the second chances as The Incredible Hulk squares off against The Happening in the US, Australia and other markets. Second chances because Marvel is hoping Edward Norton's Hulk wipes out unhappy memories of Eric Bana's 2003 Hulk movie. And because The Happening writer-director M. Night Shyamalan is looking for redemption after his last effort, Lady in the Water, drowned in a sea of lousy reviews and audience apathy in 2006. Who'll win the ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Mark Wahlberg: an unlikely hero in The Happening? |
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| Posted on Friday, 13 June 2008 by Don |
Most of the stories I've read about The Happening focus on writer-director M. Night Shyamalan. That overlooks a small but important fact: This is Mark Wahlberg's first major starring role since he played Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights. Sure, the actor has had strong supporting roles in films like The Perfect Storm, The Departed and Three Kings, and he starred in the poor remake of The Italian Job, the flop Invincible and the modestly-budgeted Shooter. And in a previous life he was noto... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| A bigger, better Hulk-- but he's no Iron Man! |
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| Posted on Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Don |
The Incredible Hulk is bound to be compared with the 2003 Hulk film starring Eric Bana, and with that other Marvel superhero, Iron Man. So how do these three films stack up? For mine, The Incredible Hulk is a better, more exciting and engaging film than the earlier Hulk...but it lacks the wit, intelligence and well-drawn characters of Iron Man. As Banner/Hulk, Edward Norton gives a more nuanced performance than Bana did, although he's given to long, silent st... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Relax M. Night, some critics actually like The Happening! |
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| Posted on Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Don |
If M. Night Shyamalan had been steeling himself for a critical hammering for his new horror movie, The Happening, the writer-director can breathe a little easier. The first reviews are a mixed batch, predictably, but some prominent critics found plenty to like in the maverick filmmaker's tale of a science teacher (Mark Wahlberg), his wife (Zooey Deschanel) and a little girl (Ashlyn Sanchez) on the run from an airborne epidemic. "Shhht. Don’t say it out loud, but we actuall... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Reasons you might enjoy Speed Racer... |
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| Posted on Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Don |
It's no secret that Speed Racer hit a speed bump with critics and some moviegoers in the US, making about $42 million, way below the hopes of Warner Bros. and writer-directors Larry and Andy Wachowski. Still, the action adventure does have its fans, and even its fiercest critics acknowledge the visual effects are groundbreaking. "Visually this movie is an awesome spectacle. The races are truly adreneline pumping, it's all so fast you'll get out of breath watching it," said... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Jack Black: born to play the hero in Kung Fu Panda |
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| Posted on Thursday, 12 June 2008 by Don |
Who else apart from Jack Black can you imagine lending his voice to a roly-poly, lazy, clumsy panda who has grandiose ideas of becoming a martial arts master? The role of Po in DreamWorks' animation movie Kung Fu Panda was written expressly for Black. What if he'd said no? "We had this idea which required Jack to be the heart and centre and soul of the movie," says John Stevenson (pictured), who shared directing duties with Mark Osborne. "If he'd rejected it, I don't know if I'd have ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Why is sweet Zooey Deschanel getting terrorized in The Happening? |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 by Don |
Zooey Deschanel has made a specialty out of playing endearing characters in movies like Elf, Almost Famous and Bridge to Terabithia, so it's a surprise to find her cast as science teacher Mark Wahlberg's terrified, neurotic wife in The Happening. Which is precisely why writer-director M. Night Shyamalan offered her the role in his Apocalyptic thriller about a mysterious epidemic which forces people to kill themselves in gruesome ways. "Zooey’s character is somewhat troubled... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| 'Why men hate Sex and the City'-- and Rush Limbaugh is a jerk |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 by Don |
Rush Limbaugh, one of those extreme right-wing shock jocks in the US, has taken aim at Sex and the City and, in the process, offended just about every woman who loves the show and the movie. And he's unfairly maligned a lot of blokes. His tirade, broadcast in the US, was a pathetic attempt to explain why some men avoided seeing the SATC movie. Needless to say, Rush has never watched the show or seen the film, but why should such ignorance stop him? "The reason men don't go... Find out more... | 2 Comments |
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| The Incredible Hulk may bulk up for another adventure |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 by Don |
If The Incredible Hulk is a substantial hit worldwide, we can expect at least one more action adventure featuring the big green guy with the short fuse. "The fans will tell us and hopefully there will be a new one coming up on the Marvel release schedule," producer Gale Anne Hurd said at the film's world premiere in Los Angeles. Director Louis Leterrier was quick to point out his movie, which stars Edward Norton as Dr Bruce Banner/Hulk, is not a sequel to Ang Lee's 2003 mo... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Kung Fu Panda-- the next Shrek? |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 11 June 2008 by Don |
After DreamWorks' animated movie Kung Fu Panda delivered a strapping $US60.2 million in the US last weekend, could the clumsy panda turned martial arts hero become a franchise? Perhaps, depending on how the film performs in the US and overseas in the next few weeks, according to DreamWorks Animation president Jeffrey Katzenberg. "This is actually the first chapter of a five or six chapter bigger story," Katzenberg told the Movie Blog in Sydney yesterday. "Optimistically w... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Sex and the City belles are Oz box-office queens |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 10 June 2008 by Don |
There was a whole lot of love in Australian cinemas last weekend as the Sex and the City Movie proved irresistible to a large slice of the female population, plus a few brave blokes. The hotly-anticipated film grabbed $8 million in its first four days, a record debut for an MA15+ rated title, beating 300. It was also the highest opening ever for a romantic comedy, overtaking Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Taking advantage of the Monday public holiday, SATC amassed a strapping $9.5... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Please, no more Jumpers! |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 10 June 2008 by Don |
Jumper was such a lousy, unexciting, soulless movie, Fox and director Doug Liman wouldn't roll the dice on a sequel would they? Maybe, despite the uniformly damning reviews and the relatively puny $220 million worldwide gross, which I doubt would have recouped the $85 million budget plus marketing costs. Hayden Christensen, one of the world's dullest leading men who played the time-travelling hero, told the Toronto Star a sequel is on the cards. “I know that they're hav... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Shyamalan confronts fear in The Happening |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 10 June 2008 by Don |
M. Night Shyamalan's new movie The Happening is generating more publicity for the writer-director than any other aspect of the film- and most of it isn't positive. It's Shyamalan's first R-rated film in the US (it's MA15+ here), and while he's keeping the plot under wraps, it's said to be steeped in violence, featuring mass suicides and the murder of children. It's almost as if some critics are hoping The Happening will be as bad as the filmmaker's last effort, Lady in the Water, even... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| More X-Files movies in the offing? |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 10 June 2008 by Don |
We're more than a month away from the debut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe-- but already star David Duchovny is hinting at further sequels. Is agent Mulder getting ahead of himself, or just supremely confident the new movie will click with fans and non-believers alike? We probably won't know until after the sequel to the 1998 film opens on July 24, such is the secrecy surrounding the production. "It's a serial show by its nature," the actor told Wizard mag. "The frame and the c... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Will SATC spawn a whole lot of chick flicks? |
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| Posted on Monday, 9 June 2008 by Don |
Hollywood loves jumping on a bandwagon and riding it hard- so does that mean the Sex and the City Movie will trigger a flood of chick pics? Probably not, for a couple of reasons. One is that SATC is a unique property with an established brand and a loyal audience who were addicted to the TV series. Name another femme-slanted show with that kind of in-built appeal. The other is that Hollywood has been adept at turning out romantic comedies targeted primarily at women. I think we can exp... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Who's Samantha's hunky neighbour? |
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| Posted on Monday, 9 June 2008 by Don |
You may not know his name but I bet you noticed his body if you're female and you've seen the Sex and the City Movie. Gilles Marini plays Samantha's sexy neighbour, Dante, a Casanova who seems to seduce a different woman every day-- and who reveals all in a shower scene. He's a 32-year-old Frenchman and former model for Giorgio Armani who's had minor roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (as a pirate) and in TV's Ugly Betty and Dirty Sexy Money. Turns out he didn't fo... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Kung Fu Panda kicks Adam Sandler's butt! |
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| Posted on Monday, 9 June 2008 by Don |
Jack Black is being hailed as the new king of comedy after Kung Fu Panda, the animated film in which he stars, triumphed at the US box-office last weekend. The fighting panda easily beat the debut of Adam Sandler's new film, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, while Sex and the City: the Movie took a big hit in its second weekend. Kung Fu Panda, in which Black voices a lazy, fat panda who's transformed into a martial arts master, sold $US60.2 million worth of tickets. That was the third big... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Sex and the City: true superheroes? |
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| Posted on Sunday, 8 June 2008 by Don |
Finally, I get it. The real appeal of Sex and the City lies not in the sex, the salty language, the fashions or even the friendships that bind the characters. No, it's the realisation that these Manolo Blahnik-worshipping, Cosmo-swilling party gals are superheroes. For that illumination, I have to thank New York magazine. "The only people who aren't surprised at SATC's summer-blockbuster numbers are women — who've known all along that Carrie, Miranda, Samantha, and Charlotte are, in fa... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Keira Knightley: Wouldn't she be loverly in My Fair Lady? |
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| Posted on Saturday, 7 June 2008 by Don |
Keira Knightley looks like she was born in another century, so it's no surprise to see she's in the frame to play the lead role of Eliza Dolittle in a remake of My Fair Lady. Actually it's more of an update, according to producers Duncan Kenworthy and Cameron Mackintosh. The role of the Cockney flower girl who's transformed into a proper lady by Professor Henry Higgins was immortalized on stage by Julie Andrews in 1956, with Rex Harrison as her mentor. Audrey Hepburn and Harrison starr... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Sex and the City off to a hot start in Oz |
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| Posted on Friday, 6 June 2008 by Don |
How hot are Aussies for the Sex and the City Movie? Enough to snap up $2 million worth of tickets around the country yesterday. That beat the opening days of Iron Man and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and it was the second biggest Thursday debut of the year, trailing I Am Legend. It was also a record opening day for a romantic comedy. For those who've been or are planning to go, here are some stats about the production: Number of costumes worn by Sarah Jessic... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Are you ready for more Harold & Kumar? |
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| Posted on Friday, 6 June 2008 by Don |
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle bombed in cinemas around the world four years ago -- so why would the creators roll the dice on another stoner comedy? Three reasons: The first film became a cult hit on DVD, suggesting there is potentially a much wider audience for the sequel. Writer/directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg clearly think they've come with a neat new idea, which, bravely, plays on America's pre-occupation with terrorism. And lastly, I suspect, this was a low-risk, relat... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Rehab for Tom Cruise? |
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| Posted on Friday, 6 June 2008 by Don |
Considering the torrent of bad press Tom Cruise has generated in the past few years, it's no surprise to see he's trying to rehabilitate his image. He's just launched his own web site as step one in the attempted make-over. While the actor's dwindling fans may gaze admiringly at a gallery of pics and clips from his 27-year career, I doubt it will win over many sceptics or non-believers. Billed unblushingly as "the site you've been waiting for," www.tomcruise.com is a white-wash. Cruise... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Why do some blokes loathe Sex and the City? |
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| Posted on Friday, 6 June 2008 by Don |
The Sex and the City Movie has been lashed with some of the most vitriolic reviews in recent years, almost all of them written, it must be said, by men. The outpouring of loathing has shocked many female commentators, who are questioning why the movie is widely seen as such an affront to male sensibilities. In a Newsweek article headed Sexism in the City, Ramin Setoodeh observed, "Movie critics, an overwhelmingly male demographic, gave it such a nasty tongue lashing you would have thou... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Who's funnier: Jack Black or Adam Sandler? |
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| Posted on Friday, 6 June 2008 by Don |
Two comic giants, Jack Black and Adam Sandler, square off in the US over the weekend. Jack voices a fat, lazy panda who becomes an unlikely martial arts hero to save his village in DreamWorks Animation's Kung Fu Panda. Sandler plays an Israeli agent who moves to New York to start a new life as a hair stylist, pursued by enemy counter-agents, in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Most pundits expect Kung Fu Panda to triumph, as DreamWorks' films typically play to a broad audience, while San... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Forget the old Hulk, here's the all-new Incredible Hulk |
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| Posted on Thursday, 5 June 2008 by Don |
Here's a relief: The Incredible Hulk isn't a sequel to Hulk. The filmmakers have smartly distanced themselves from the Ang Lee/Eric Bana movie, which disappointed many fans. While the earlier Hulk movie spent a laboured 40 minutes establishing the character, the new movie compresses the back story into the opening credits, and jumps straight into the narrative. The plot pits Bruce Banner/Hulk (Edward Norton) against Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth) a soldier who gets injected with a super serum... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Prince Caspian's Reepicheep: don't call him mousy! |
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| Posted on Thursday, 5 June 2008 by Dpn |
Of all the fantastical characters and creatures in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Reepicheep is one very clever invention. This swashbuckling mouse wears armour, is nifty with a sword, walks on two legs as well as four, and is gallant and noble. And, voiced by English comic Eddie Izzard, he has some of the movie's wittiest dialogue. There are obvious similarities between Reepicheep and Shrek's Puss In Boots, which is no accident considering director Andrew Adamson was involv... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Mr Big plays it cool in Sex and the City |
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| Posted on Thursday, 5 June 2008 by Don |
If there was ever a danger of Chris Noth getting Big-headed (pun intended) while he was shooting the Sex and the City Movie, the crew on Law & Order: Criminal Intent kept him grounded to reality. When he'd return to the Law & Order set after living the high life as Carrie's rich boyfriend in the movie, crew members would say, "Oh, welcome back, Mr. Big. There's a dead body, Mr. Big. Go figure out who shot that guy between the ears, would you? Do you need a cosmo while you do that?''' ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| McG blogs on Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 by Don |
Fierce winds are buffeting the cast and crew and co-star Sam Worthington tore a rib muscle during a fight sequence as filming of Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins rolls through its fifth week in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That progress report comes from McG, who is directing the fourth edition of The Terminator franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018. Christian Bale stars as John Connor, who leads the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. Worthington plays ... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| More teasing on X Files: I Want to Believe |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 by Don |
While X-Files fans are craving more news, info, anything at all on the upcoming movie X-Files: I Want to Believe, the cast and creatives continue to play an elaborate game of tease. David Duchovny is prolonging the suspense by unhelpfully telling fans via the LA Times what not to expect when the movie hits screens next month. Like: It won't be anything like a James Bond movie (whoever expected it would?) and it won't involve a time freeze or take us to another world. A lot of the ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Scoring The Dark Knight: a trip into punk anarchy |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 by Don |
A movie's soundtrack can help make or break a movie. The score can either perfectly complement what you see and feel, or drown the senses with over-kill. So it's reassuring to see director Christopher Nolan has entrused The Dark Knight score to two ace composers, Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, Rain Man) and James Newton Howard (Michael Clayton), the same duo he used on Batman Begins. Zimmer tackled the music for Heath Ledger's the Joker while Howard focused on Harvey Dent, the good-intention... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Life takes a new turn for Kristin Davis in Sex and the City |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 by Don |
I must confess goody two-shoes Charlotte was my least favourite character in Sex and the City. I found her the least convincing, but I'm not sure whether that was the fault of the writers or the shortcomings of actress Kristin Davis. So it's a relief to read that the Sex and the City Movie takes Charlotte in a new direction when she unexpectedly finds herself pregnant. "The first day of work, I was wearing the biggest baby bump," Kristin says. "It was my big scene. I was wearing th... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Prince Caspian: a trip to a fantastical otherworld |
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| Posted on Wednesday, 4 June 2008 by Don |
One of the pleasures of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, is watching how the new characters interact with the Pevensie foursome. For instance, there's a sparkling repartee between the cranky dwarf Trumpkin and the Pevensies as he guides them through the land of Narnia, now a hostile and forbidding place. Trumpkin is played by Peter Dinklage, the petite actor who first came to attention in the cult hit The Station Agent, although I doubt you'd recognize him, disguised under a long r... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| David Eigenberg happy to be in the SATC family |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 3 June 2008 by Don |
David Eigenberg, who plays Miranda's husband Steve in the Sex and the City Movie, jokingly said before the movie opened he couldn't reveal the plot or the producers would "cut off my toes." About all he could volunteer is that he and Miranda and their young son Brady have some "happy family moments," and some unhappy moments. The 43-year-old native New Yorker doubted whether the movie would happen after initial efforts to get it up failed. Then he was sent the script, and "I was ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| The Happening: a scary prospect for M. Night Shyamalan |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 3 June 2008 by Don |
Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan claims his new film, The Happening, is his scariest yet. For the sake of his faltering career, let's hope audiences feel the same way. Since he broke through with The Sixth Sense, the filmmaker has been on a downward spiral. Unbreakable and Signs made money but The Village was a disappointment and his last effort, The Lady in the Water, was a stinker, commercially and critically. An outsider who lives in Philadelphia, Shyamalan broke a Holl... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| SATC hits Big....and now for the sequel? |
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| Posted on Tuesday, 3 June 2008 by Don |
Before the Sex and the City Movie opened, Sarah Jessica Parker played down the prospect of a sequel, whether out of modesty or perhaps not really knowing how warmly fans in the US and around the world would embrace the film. Well on the high heels of its stunning $US56.8 million US debut and enthusiastic turnouts in the UK and Germany, another big screen helping seems almost certain. Assuming, that is, that writer/director Michael Patrick King and the producers can come up with a fres... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Indiana Jones reigns in Oz |
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| Posted on Monday, 2 June 2008 by Don |
Indy-mania raged on in Australia as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull easily retained the box-office crown last weekend. Indy 4 grabbed $5.7 million, falling by a mild 41% after its bountiful debut, a much better hold than the film experienced in the US, where it suffered a bit in the slipstream of the Sex and the City movie. Crystal Skull has amassed $18.1 million here; it will be fascinating to see how it fares versus the openings this week of SATC and the Narnia seq... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| MTV awards salute Transformers, Iron Man |
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| Posted on Monday, 2 June 2008 by Don |
Transformers was crowned best movie and Iron Man was declared best summer movie so far at the MTV Movie Awards staged in Los Angeles today. Johnny Depp was the only multiple winner, collecting the gongs for best villain in Sweeney Todd and best comedic performance for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Accepting the latter, the gum-chewing actor deadpanned, "You can ask anybody, I'm not a very funny person." Will Smith took home the male performance award, a statuette depictin... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| The Spirit: a whole new adventure for Sin City's Frank Miller |
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| Posted on Monday, 2 June 2008 by Don |
If you're a fan of writer/director Frank Miller, rest assured his next film, The Spirit, will look nothing like Sin City. On his blog, the creator of 300 describes making The Spirit as "one hell of an adventure," and explains why he changed the title character's traditional blue hat, mask, and jacket to black. The film stars Gabriel Macht as a former rookie cop who returns mysteriously from the dead to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. Samuel L. Jackson plays... Find out more... | 0 Comments |
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| Sex and the City whips Indy! |
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| Posted on Monday, 2 June 2008 by Don |
If Aussies are anywhere near as passionate about Sex and the City as US audiences, the movie will have a stunning opening here this week. In the US, the movie reuniting four of the world's favourite Manhattanites, sold $US56.8 million worth of tickets over the weekend. That was way up on all pre-release projections-- and it de-throned Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which rang up $44.7 million in its second weekend (tumbling by 55%), to send its cume to a towering ... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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| Fan frenzy for Sex and the City Movie |
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| Posted on Sunday, 1 June 2008 by Don |
The Sex and the City Movie is a very, very hot ticket in the US this weekend- far hotter than most pundits predicted. Which won't be a surprise to SATC's multitude of fans, who have posted glowing comments on various websites. The movie sold nearly $US27 million worth of tickets in the US on Friday, which points to a 3-day haul of around $66 million: nearly double some pre-release projections. It's clear most commentators under-estimated the film's fan base and the extent of their passionat... Find out more... | 0 Comments | buy tickets |
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