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		<title>It&#8217;s NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, and Mike loves it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's hard to like documentaries. Unlike fiction films which create their own reality, documentaries attempt to manipulate this one and that doesn't always make for good viewing. It can lead to things like the recent AMERICAN TEEN which are clearly just poorly orchestrated versions of reality, there are boring commentaries on reality that just rope in anyone to become a pundit (these are usually reserved for television and often massacre historical subjects with mundane musings), and there are excessively politicized diatribes like those produced by Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock.

So when I watched NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD it was like a breath of fresh air. Here is a documentary that is many things, all of which should be attractive to a movie fan and none of which are in any way boring, bland or manipulative. This is because NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is all about the forgotten world of Australian genre films, that heady group of movies that sprung up at the birth of the nation's film industry and provided a welcome antidote to the arthouse world that was believed to be so necessary to the character of a national film industry.

Collecting an awesome team of commentators, some amazing anecdotes and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike feels the heat of THE BURNING PLAIN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest movie from Guillermo Arriaga is as ponderous and slow-burning as you'd expect. Deep-seated emotional problems are examined in a complex movie that, as ever with Arriaga, refuses to fit into a straightforward narrative.

Split between two time periods and places, the first half of the film throws out pieces of a puzzle that the rest of the film endeavours to solve. Two families in New Mexico are tracked as mother of four Gina (Kim Basinger) engages in a love-affair with Mexican neighbour Nick (Joaquim de Almeida) who is a father of a relatively large family himself. Meanwhile in Oregon Sylvia (Charlize Theron) is running a restaurant, she is frequently smoking and looking pensive and apparently regularly engages passing sexual encounters. The alarm bells of emotional turmoil (a built-in mental device of many arthouse movie fans) begin to go off and the stage is set for Arriaga's challenge.

What unfolds as we try to piece the narrative together is the story of fractured families whose pain leads to events that have repercussions more severe than could have been imagined. The affair between Gina and Nick has several nuances that prevent them from becoming villains, and force us to invest equal time ...]]></description>
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		<title>SURVEILLANCE &#8211; Mike&#8217;s Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opening sequence of SURVEILLANCE is just brilliant. Horrifying flashes of a brutal homicide by masked murderers, intercut with a terrified woman fleeing down the freeway, will throw you instantly into the chilling criminal investigation that is about to begin in the small countryside town. When the FBI show up the local law enforcement don't take to kindly to their interference and what gradually unravels is a gruesome tale of the fetishism of power that blights those who wield it.

This strange thriller mixes the penchant for grittiness that has emerged in thrillers over the past ten years with the surreal and very very dark stylings of David Lynch, who happens to be the father of the director in this instance. His daughter Jennifer also seems to have adopted his interest in small town life, as she dissects the world that is protected only by the dubious motives of the local Sheriff's department. In fact I seem to recall her father making something about the FBI visiting a small town in the country where unusual events are occurring... hmm.

This movie doesn't quite stretch to the extremes of TWIN PEAKS. It does plunge into the depths of evil though, and the results ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike finally watched WATCHMEN, and it was worth the wait</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, it's that time of year again. The cold snows of Winter are about to thaw, new leaves begin to bud on the trees and the stream of Oscar films are making way for the torrent of big budget blockbusters. First on the list is the heavily-hyped and long-awaited adaptation of the Watchmen graphic novel. A complicated and detailed tale of an alternate history in which superheroes were embraced as bringers of justice, only to gradually become marginalised as dangerous and unregulated menaces to society. Interweaving the story of two generations, the story is an expansive discussion of power and justice that draws in detail on the lives of 8 (yes, eight) heroes.

However, amid the accusations that WATCHMEN will be confusing and complicated, it is worth remembering that the director is Zack Snyder: the man who implified and stylised 300 SPARTANS in to 300, and took the politicized zombie world George Romero and made the glossy 2004 version of DAWN OF THE DEAD.

His work on WATCHMEN is no different. The story is broken down admirably well, and told in a series of sequences that are absorbing, exciting and, perhaps best of all, manageable. Sure it's a plot with several big ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike refuses to believe AMERICAN TEENs always fit the stereotype</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first glance, AMERICAN TEEN seems to be as simple as its title. It's a documentary about average teenagers from a small town in Indiana. A camera crew follows a selection of kids as they go through the trials and tribulations that make up life in High School. According to director Nanette Burstein, the idea is that making a documentary rather would provide "all of the complexities and depth of real people that are often lacking in teen fictional movies."

This whet my appetite for the film because, frankly, I'm damn tired of the format of American teen movies and as a Brit I was pretty keen to see how the reality matched the fiction. However, to my utter distress, that reality was steadily chipped away as the 'documentary' slowly declined into a miserably obvious attempt to shove this handpicked selection of teens into the exact same stereotype spouted by Burstein's fiction filmmaker counterparts.

As far as I am concerned, this instantly stops it from being a documentary. Using 'real people' doesn't make it true to real life, actors are real people too after all... except Tom Cruise, he's a monkey inhabited by the spirit of a space alien or something. I ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to fight, I&#8217;m a comedian!&#8221; &#8211; See Judd Apatow&#8217;s FUNNY PEOPLE trailer!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/i-dont-know-how-to-fight-im-a-comedian-see-judd-apatows-funny-people-trailer.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judd Apatow; you are the master of making me laugh uncontrollably and at the same time really feel that big sting, that big lump at the back of my throat.

And it really looks like FUNNY PEOPLE could be your best yet. There's a depth to it that far outreaches THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP, both of which had lots more on their minds than the usual rom-com. 

Universal have released a very long trailer for the film that stars Adam Sandler as a comedian who finds out he is dying and becomes close to the young comedian he has recently taken under his wing (Seth Rogen).

The usual Apatow cast supports, with an Aussie accented Eric Bana joining in this time. 



 

Apatow really seems to have notched up the Hollywood sheen of the movie. Looks damn beautiful. It really works and you know how I know it works? 

Because I'm excited for it and it stars Adam Sandler. So there ya go! 

Thanks once again to First Showing for the heads-up and the awesome trailer link!

Will I be this teary eyed come July 31st, still unsure as to whether I am laughing or crying? ]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday night might decide Rourke&#8217;s IRON MAN 2 fate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This seems to be the situation here regarding Mickey Rourke and IRON MAN 2. 

Rourke desperately wants to "bring it" to the sequel. He wants to be in the movie, he wants to show the world that he is capable of starring in a huge Summer blockbuster and is a big enough actor to play a villain that can make several hundred million for Marvel.

But Marvel, trying to save a lot of money these days, won't pay him the same salaries as they are giving out to Robert Downey Jr or Gwyneth Paltrow. 

They have lowballed him an offer no-one is surprised he turned down.

BUT, offer him the right kind of money and he will do it. It's the same kind of situation as to what he was in with GET CARTER, where the studio wouldn't offer him what he wanted and Sly Stallone, star of the picture, came in and paid the rest of Rourke's salary. 

On this project he hasn't got a Stallone. But come Sunday night, he very well may have an Oscar on his hands for THE WRESTLER. 

And that will mean gold, REAL GOLD for Rourke. And more gold from Marvel. 

CLICK HERE TO SEE ROURKE LETTING MARVEL KNOW HE ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rourke not in IRON MAN 2, Arnie probably not in THE EXPENDABLES!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/rourke-not-in-iron-man-2-arnie-probably-not-in-the-expendables.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two bits of sad news to broadcast here my fellow geeks. 

First up, the lowball $250,000 offer from the recession hit Marvel to Mickey Rourke to play the main villain Crymson Dynamo in IRON MAN 2, proved to be too low for the actor. 

He tells New York Magazine...
"Right now, we're not doing Iron Man 2," Rourke told us grimly.
Instead as we heard yesterday, he has now officially signed on to appear in THE EXPENDABLES which will shoot at the same time as Marvel's Tony Stark sequel. 

Rourke owes Stallone a lot. If you watched that really inspiring interview last week between Rourke and Charlie Rose you will have heard the story that Stallone paid the majority fee to get Rourke to appear in GET CARTER at the turn of the century when the studio wasn't keen on his casting choice.

His role in GET CARTER was the beginning of Rourke's come back in the industry. 

Simply put, Rourke owes Stallone a lot and he has turned down a high profile role as a thank you to Stallone and most likely for the better paycheck.

In other, kind of related news. AICN are now firmly back tracking on the Arnie in THE EXPENDABLES story we ran ...]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: The Wachowski&#8217;s don&#8217;t believe that a man can fly!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/wachowski-brothers/updated-the-wachowskis-dont-believe-that-a-man-can-fly.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: /film have confirmed from various that this story is false. 

But rest assured guys, Superman is reforming. His re-birth is coming, just need to sweat it out a little longer and hope Warner Bros. are smart in who they entrust with this project.
Could it be? 



Warner Bros. decided late last year that a reboot of the Superman franchise was the only way to go after Bryan Singer butchered the character and left him with nowhere to go after SUPERMAN RETURNS. 

A movie so bad, it created the monster that is Obsessed With Film. But let's not go into that again!

Since July, Warner Bros. have been inviting pitches from anyone with a good idea as they try and make a franchise that can match up to their work on the Batman series which is making them more money than they know what to do with right now.

Scottish born Mark Millar, the comic book writer on KICK-ASS and WANTED is one such scribe who has already spoken with Warner Bros. over his trilogy of Kal-El which would basically start at his birth and end with his death over the course of three movies. 

He told Empire in October...
“I want to start on Krypton, a thousand years ago, ...]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATED: Arnie joins Stallone&#8217;s THE EXPENDABLES!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Latino Review have the scoop that Danny Trejo (ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, MACHETE) has a role in the movie. For a "home coming of tough guys", how can you go wrong with a guy whose face carries the same hard man world weariness as Charles Bronson?


I have a feeling Sly Stallone got on his knees and begged Arnold Schwarzenegger, his much compared action hero peer of the 80's and 90's, to star in THE EXPENDABLES. 

But in the end, he could only get Arnie for one day of shooting. Which is still mega cool.

AICN have heard that Arnie will play Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie, a small cameo that revolves around a confrontation between Stallone's fictional character Barney Ross and Arnie playing himself. Somehow, don't ask me the details, but in this move universe it seems both have a history dating back to when Arnie was shooting CONAN THE BARBARIAN. 

It's a meta-film connection I guess, can't wait to see it. And it isn't actually the first time they have appeared together as Arnie recently filmed a small role in the Indian movie INCREDIBLE LOVE which Stallone has a considerable part in. That movie premieres in India in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike ponders the end of CHE in PART TWO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the heady successes and awesome guerrilla scenes of CHE PART ONE (THE ARGENTINE in the States) I was hugely looking forward to the second half of Steven Soderbergh's epic. Would it look at how how Che coped with the change in nature of Fidel's regime from populist uprising to dictatorship? Would it look at how and why Che fomented revolution across Africa and South America? Actually, what it does is look at the in-depth world of a guerrilla fighter again - but when revolution fails to take hold.

Focussing on Guevara's time in Bolivia as described in his Bolivia Diaries, Part Two is a painful charting of the decline of a great man that gets deeply involved in the character of the man as he is pushed to the limit by adverse circumstances. Like the first half of the epic, Soderbergh is at pains to show the nitty gritty of guerrilla life. The training, the setting up camps, the hiding, the necessary interaction with skeptical peasants and the desperate bid to win them over. But rather than punctuating this with pitched battles Soderbergh merely offers a few desperate skirmishes (which admittedly look just as good as earlier battles) and bleak ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ok, so the TRANSFORMERS 2 trailer might be the most awesome thing I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn you Michael Bay. Damn you!

How can you do this to me? 

How the hell have you made me so excited for TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN after I crapped on your first movie two years ago?

Well I do kind of know how. It's because the trailer shows no story or actual direction that doesn't involve blowing things up. That's why. But still, thank you for providing me with a trailer that kicked my ass this morning. 

The following trailer is attached to some prints of FRIDAY THE 13TH and will probably not last long on the web but as you know, once it's out there, like a virus it spreads and grows, so you should be able to catch it if you look hard enough. 

Doesn't it promote a movie Michael Bay has no chance in delivering? ]]></description>
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		<title>WIN: A trip to see GRAN TORINO for you and 4 friends!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Willis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be one of the first to see GRAN TORINO! Obsessed With Film will be giving 1 lucky reader plus 4 friends the opportunity to visit the capital to see GRAN TORINO... Clint Eastwood's multi-award winning US smash hit!



Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the drama GRAN TORINO marking his first film role since his Oscar®-winning film MILLION DOLLAR BABY. Eastwood portrays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed and inflexible Korean War veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.

The exclusive competition winners screening will take place on February 23rd in Holborn, London. To be in with a chance of winning all you need to do is answer the following question...
What is the name of Clint Eastwood’s character in Gran Torino

	1)       Walt Kowalski
	2)       Walter Kawaski
	3)       Wayne Kowala


Travel expenses will be paid up to £50 for the trip (upon production of receipt). Be sure to include a day-time telephone number where we can contact the winner, who will be chosen at random from the entries received.

[contactform]
GRAN TORINO is released in the UK on February 25th.
© ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Nolan&#8217;s next movie at Warner Bros. is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[... an original sci-fi thriller he wrote titled INCEPTION, which he be produced by his wife and THE DARK KNIGHT producer Emma Thomas. The story broke in tonight's The Hollywood Reporter.

INCEPTION is described as "a contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind."

I'm not quite sure what the hell that means but it sounds absolutely fantastic and I can't tell you how delighted I am to see Nolan join the number of high profile directors tackling sci-fi right now, a genre in great need of a boost.

INCEPTION will shoot this Summer and all being well should hit theatres mid-2010. This will be one of Warner Bros. biggest movies of next year as they currently have no comic book movie set for release (everyone doubts a proposed GREEN LANTERN could be ready in time).

As expected, Nolan doesn't wanna be seen as just the BATMAN guy and is once again helming a movie in between two Warner Bros. smash hits. It mirrors what he did with his smaller, more personal project THE PRESTIGE which began casting almost immediately after BATMAN BEGINS hit cinemas. 

Though INCEPTION sure doesn't sound like just a small flick. 

You all know I'm the biggest Batman fan around ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Cruise will circle Denzel Washington in Cronenberg&#8217;s first blockbuster!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another huge story to hit the trades tonight! 

Variety say Tom Cruise is in talks to join the already cast Denzel Washington in THE MATARESE CIRLCE, the Robert Ludlum (BOURNE series) thriller that David Cronenberg will make next. 

Do I really need to say anymore, surely your sold already?

The MGM thriller which will go into production later this year will find Cruise and Washington as bitter enemy spies who come together after two decades of trying to kill each other in order to stop the powerful Matarese group in root of a conspiracy. 

WANTED and 3:10 TO YUMA scribes Michael Brandt and Derek Haas adapted Ludlum's novel for screen, contemporising Ludlum's Cold-War setting. 

The movie should be out next year after Cruise has remade THE TOURIST, a thriller over at Spyglass which sees him co-star with Charlize Theron. 

Coming off the historical thriller VALKYRIE, Cruise is dismissing my advice of going the comedy route (which worked with TROPIC THUNDER) and hopes to win the hearts of fans in this genre once again. 

Cronenberg, always seen as an Indie film-maker whose only real attempt at a commercial movie was A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE a few years ago, will direct his first blockbuster. And how I can't wait ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike asks &#8216;What happened to all the horror villains??&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What has happened to the horror villains of the 80s? Once upon a time we had Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, Charles Lee Ray (Chucky) and, of course, Jason and Mrs. Vorhees. This decade was the heyday for character-driven horrors that saw a particular spectre terrorise the lives of innocent civilians. Nowadays we just can't match that kind of wild imagination, we are stuck with churned out remakes (we've seen MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D and FRIDAY THE 13th already in the last month) or botched reworkings of Asian psychological and supernatural horrors (let's just not watch THE UNINVITED). The only thing that came close was SAW's Jigsaw, but he's been dragged on for so long that even some original fans have drifted away from the franchise. So where did it all go wrong?

The horror villain has been around for as long as horror itself, so there's no point going way back. But the orgiastic killing held together purely by a frightening and well-constructed killing machine began to take shape in the 70s. Gone were all the draculas and mummies and indiscriminate ghosts, they metamorphosed into something far less recognisable. Ghosts inhabited bodies which themselves became scary, like in THE EXORCIST, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Why we are having a FRIDAY THE 13th takeover</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRIDAY THE 13th was the trend setter.



The first real movie that created the sub-genre of slasher (yes PSYCHO, BLACK CHRISTMAS, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and HALLOWEEN came before it and directly influenced this movie but FRIDAY THE 13th cemented the conventions it borrowed) and began what was surprisingly the genre of the 80's.

It started a golden age in horror that hadn't been seen Universal stopped making black and white scares in the 40's. The series spawned an iconic and highly marketable pop culture icon in Jason Voorhees who along with Michael Myers and Freddy Kruger, gave studios box office icons it hadn't seen since Dracula, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man.



Now the 80's generation of teenagers (and many more later on VHS, including my own) were treated to their own mysterious icons which they could read about it magazines, watch in countless sequels, debate the motivations of with their friends and feel sympathy for but be absolutely terrified by them at the same time.

FRIDAY THE 13th started a craze that is still present today. The 80's slasher pulse is still beating, either directly through same titled remakes (ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN, the new FRIDAY THE 13th) or of 80's movies that were basically ...]]></description>
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		<title>The guy who resurrected BOND twice is wanted for GREEN LANTERN!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Campbell twice resurrected James Bond from franchise killing movies when he made GOLDENEYE and CASINO ROYALE, both times bringing the exact entertainment audiences wanted out of their 007 at a time when the future of the character was looking very bleak indeed. 

If it wasn't for Campbell, maybe we wouldn't have James Bond movies still being made right now. 

Now Warner Bros. want him for GREEN LANTERN, replacing Greg Berlanti who was the last director to be attached, though his script he co-wrote with Marc Guggenheim and Michael Green is still expected to be used say Variety.

Campbell whose credits also include the two ZORRO movies and VERTICAL LIMIT, has just completed a remake of his own BBC thriller EDGE OF DARKNESS with Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone.

You can see why he has been chosen. He makes great character pieces (see his last Bond) which are stylish, grounded in reality (which will do what Nolan did for Batman here) and with top notch quality action. 

The only thing I would say, is I hope he has a BIGGER VISION for this character, which is something he surely warrants. This is no ordinary superhero character.

The movie is now being fast tracked looking for a release ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mike sees GRAN TORINO as Eastwood&#8217;s logical conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several things counting quite heavily against GRAN TORINO. The first is that Clint Eastwood is old, and a lot of Hollywood old boys refuse to give up the image they used to have and just look silly. The second is that Clint Eastwood isn't doing this, and Hollywood loves it when they do (even if I think elderly prima donnas are arseholes). Thirdly, it could easily be seen as an Oscar begging bowl trying to get Eastwood a final gong before he departs for the big film studio in the sky. Finally there is an issue more than adequately railed against by my esteemed colleague Ray: the marketing pretends it's a guns-blazing bonanza of violence (like the distributors probably wanted).

Nonetheless, I maintain that GRAN TORINO is a great film. It uses several of these preconceptions to twist the assumptions of the audience on their head in a valiant effort to reach out to the Eastwood audience with a new message. Essentially what the movie is doing is telling the story of the changing shape of America from the perspective of a man very clearly lodged in its past - in this sense it isn't too dissimilar to NO ...]]></description>
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		<title>OWF&#8217;s THE DARK KNIGHT COMMENTARY &#8211; HERE!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/the-dark-knight/owfs-the-dark-knight-commentary-here.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we did it. Bet many of you guys thought I was talking out of my ass and that I would never get round to it.

But late Saturday night, the three amigo's... (ironically straight after we did watch a bit of THE THREE AMIGO'S)... myself, Simon and Dan recorded an audio commentary track for THE DARK KNIGHT.

Discussions included...

"Did Batman break his one rule by the film's conclusion?"

"Should Harvey Dent's arc in the movie end with the hospital scene?"

"Was Heath Ledger's performance deserving of an Oscar?"

Warner Bros, the commentary is for sale if you wish to purchase it. Or hey, you can have it for free for a future "Holiday edition" or a "Deluxe Box Set" release. International fans, sadly the commentary is only in one language (Geordie) but hopefully you can understand just what the hell it is we are saying.

We thought it went about as well as it could for the first time. We might have rushed through what we were saying but we were quite nervous (you try and talk in front of a microphone for two and a half hours) but I'm sure we will get better over time.

Remember this was only our first one. After our ...]]></description>
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