Hello gang
Sorry I’ve “gone dark” over the past week and a bit, but work has been tearing me a few new ones, and getting stuck over a computer during my extra, extra valuable free time has just seemed wrong. Which means my apology is somewhat qualified, but an apology nevertheless.
Anyway.
I went to see “The Men [...]

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This “bootlegged” (read: shit quality) trailer for James Cameron’s budget-busting 3-D CGI extravaganza has hit the internet. If you squint just right, you’ll get a pretty good idea of what “Avatar” is all about: Lieutenant Dan and a bunch of man-sized Smurfs hanging around on floating islands.

If you’re like me and get hard talking [...]

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Well here’s a feelgood flick we can all look forward to: Human Centipede, the heart-warming story of a doctor who stitches people together ass-to-mouth to create a giant, um, human centipede. General hilarity ensues.
Outside the more outré work of Takashi Miike and David Cronenberg, you won’t have seen anything quite like Dutch avant-garde artist Tom [...]

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Freddy Kruger will be returning to the big screen yet again courtesy of Michael Bay, but this time Jackie Earle Haley (Rorshach in last year’s Watchmen) will be replacing Robert Englund as Edward Scissorhands’ slightly misunderstood older brother.
Here’s the trailer:

Dare I suggest this looks like it could be alright?
I’ll probably watch it regardless. [...]

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Roman Polanski, who has lived as a fugitive from the US justice system for over 30 years, has been arrested by Swiss police as he arrived to attend the Zurich Film Festival. He faces possible extradition to the US where he will likely stand trial – again – for having “unlawful sexual intercourse” at Jack [...]

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After a solid showing at Park City’s Sundance festival in January earlier this year, indie “non-rom-com” (500) Days Of Summer is currently riding a wave of critical and commercial success, buoyed signficantly by the film’s offbeat appeal. The body of largely glowing reviews tend to agree that director Mark Webb’s debut offering is “unique”, “original”, [...]

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RocknRolla

If you liked Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, loved Snatch and are gagging for more of the same, you’ll probably get a kick or two out of this movie. Personally, I wouldn’t waste my time. There’s nothing new about RocknRolla at all. Guy Ritchie is painting by numbers, once again dredging up and dusting [...]

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In the past few weeks there’s been some low-level buzz (i.e. probably lies) that Ang will be following in the footsteps of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry by slipping into Catwoman’s skin-tight rubbers for the next Batman movie. Personally, I think it’s a grand idea – ever since the old Billy Bob Thornton “vials [...]

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There’s not much that I can add to the wealth of reviews of The Dark Knight that you won’t have read or probably aren’t aware of already. It is awesome. Heath Ledger is a shoo-in at least for the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain (Best Supporting Oscar at this very early stage of the [...]

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Here’s the trailer for Harry Potter’s latest adventure. Looks dull. I’ve never minded the odd Harry Potter flick, but they really need to get a better baddie. Honestly. Voldemort’s about as scary as a glass of breakfast punch. And not even the half-finished glass of breakfast punch that’s presently plotting my excruciating demise from across [...]

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