Mike revels in WASTING AWAY
Some of you might remember my bitter (if somewhat naive) disappointment with Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus. Far from being the B-movie cheese-fest I wanted,…
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Review
Mike heads THREE MILES NORTH OF MOLKOM
What goes on three miles north of a small Swedish town called Molkom? Well, it's a rural area in lush countryside so you'd expect the…
Mike is underwhelmed by THE FIRM
Another remake (I continue, unapologetically, to hate them) is coming our way this week, now in the form of eighties TV play The Firm. A…
MESRINE – NOW THAT’S A GANGSTER MOVIE…
MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE is about to hit cinemas in the UK, so it seems about the right time to extol the virtues of…
Matt reviews INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS!
(As usual I'm over on my own deadline and I know a few people have asked me where the fuck is my review, but…
SIN NOMBRE: screw the issues, let’s make a movie!
Making a film about a big issue is a tricky business. Take Iraq for example, although The Hurt Locker seems to be fighting the…
Ray hangs out with some FUNNY PEOPLE, but they didn’t make him laugh
I'm not going to deal with my feelings on Adam Sandler's spotty movie career, since I just did that in this article for The…
Mike visits LAND OF THE LOST!
There are certain things in life you can rely on. The tides come and go with predictable regularity, the moon waxes and wanes its…
Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE
Ray reviews the newest Harry Potter film, HALF BLOOD PRINCE!
On REPULSION And Roman Polanski
Filmmaking is a collaborative process typically involving hundreds of people, and often it shows in the finished product. Most films seem to be made-by-committee products,…
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Director Updates
Clint Eastwood’s next movie is THE HUMAN FACTOR based on John Carlin’s book Playing the Enemy. It’s a look at the life of Nelson Mandela after the fall of apartheid in South Africa during his first term as president when campaigned to host the 1995 Rugby World Cup event as an opportunity to unite his countrymen. Morgan Freeman plays Mandela, Matt Damon the Rugby team captain Francois Pienaar. The movie is due out in December, just in time for Oscar season.
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