January 2010
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Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
they need to die.
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Brothers - review
Jim Sheridan (My left foot, In the Name of the Father) returns to the Director’s chair once again to direct the US remake of Susanne Bier’s Danish soap-drama “Brodre”. Despite the significant downfall of ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Sheridan’s ability to direct is revived with “Brothers”, a dramatic, powerful and naturalistic tale about family, war and betrayal. Susanne Bier’s realistic...
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ESSAY: Tinseltown Re-makes
Film re-makes always recieve more media attention than any normal film release would. And rightly so. It’s always intriguing to see the latest film to come out of the Hollywood production line, revamped to suit modern (in particular teen) audiences’ tastes. Yet more often than not they end up merely being a dumbed down assault on the senses, with more emphasis given to overblown CGI and histrionic...
REVIEW: UP IN THE AIR
What would you do if the goal to which you have been working towards for your whole life turns out to be an anti-climax? Although in this case, it’s not so much an anti-climax as a but-what-else-did-you-expect moment. George Clooney portrays the life of Ryan Bingham, a jetsetter who is employed to fire people. With this given lifestyle he gathers hundreds of thousands of air miles with a dream of...
The dude.
Jeff Bridges collects his first Golden Globe on Sunday for Best Actor in a motion picture drama, for his performance in “Crazy Heart”. Well earnt, seeing as he turned 60 in December. Come February 10th we’ll see his award winning performance, it’s doubtful Bridges will let us down.
Ben
Feel good.
Ben Stiller changes his on-screen style, and follows the trend of heartfelt and naturalistic comedies about life with “Greenberg”, due for release in March. Could be something…
Greenberg Trailer
Ben
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what we missed. no.1
naturally, a few films passed my radar in 2009 and I am doing my best to catch up. one film i didn’t bat an eyelid toward when it came out was “Sugar” directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck of “Half Nelson” fame.
i wouldn’t bother writing about it if i didn’t think it deserved it. it would most likely have been somewhere in my top 10. i put “The...
the best teen movie ever
‘It doesn’t make sense to leave home to look for home, to give up a life to find a new life, to say goodbye to friends you love just to find new friends.’ This line perfectly sums up the spirit of the bittersweet cult 70s hit American Graffiti. I recently re-watched it, and it was on second viewing that I was struck by this sense of parental insight into the innocent and nostalgic lives of kids...
Promising Young Talent.
Recently I watched ‘3:10 to Yuma’. I realise how late I’ve been in watching this film, however it’s been something I’ve wanted to see for a while. The film was very good, with that said there’s a particular performance which captured my attention, that was Ben Foster’s portrayal of Charlie Prince, the most sinister and rebellious character of Ben...
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Of course it matters..
If that little collection of pictures below (i have no idea why one doesn’t work, I’m still an amateur) were to include superhero movies Spider - Man would have definitely made an appearance, maybe two. The first two Spider-Man movies were perfect summer blockbusters and perfectly adapted the source material. They kept in line with the tone of the comics and were pitched just right;...
Calvin and Hobbes
It may be a comic strip and not a book of sorts, but watching Where The Wild Things Are made me think what an awesome movie Calvin and Hobbes could potentially be. I’ve always loved Bill Watterson and I’m prepared to suspend my childhood love for this comic in the interest of film. It doesn’t have to be a kids film either; it’s pretty philosophical and life-enhancing.
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Dear 2010 sci-fi, do more of this:
less of transformers.
THE ROAD short review.
a longer one may come sooner. but pretty much what everyone else has said about this film is true. if the book scores 100 % this scores 90 %. it does everything right, hillcoat just isn’t quite the cinematic equivalent of mccarthy.
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Watchmakingofmovies:
The First Official Teaser Trailer to the reboot of “The A-Team” starring Bradley Cooper (“Wet Hot American Summer”), Liam Neeson (“Taken”), and Sharlto Copely (“District 9”).
this. looks. wack. “if you look outside the wing is on fire” … LOL
best screenshot of the year?
quite possibly.
“BuddyTV: Also going back a bit, I know at one point during Season 2, Darren Aronofsky approached you guys about directing an episode. Is that something that still might come about?
Carlton Cuse: No, you know basically it turned out that Darren still had work to do on his movie and Rachel Weisz was having their child and he had too many outside commitments and really we haven’t revisited...
Mystery White Boy
Rumours about a Jeff Buckley biopic look fairly set in stone now with the title “Mystery White Boy” (taken from Buckley’s live album), being used as the project’s name, and the up and coming director Brian Jun is supposedly taking on the film’s directorial responsibilities. Rumours of James Franco in the lead have surfaced, after all he doesn’t look too...
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the road
‘Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not...