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		<title>Patrick Swayze 1952 &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Vid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Patrick Swayze lost his two year battle with pancreatic cancer last night, passing away "peacefully" whilst surrounded by his family at his home in Houston. He was 57.

As most have attested, there was two Patrick Swayze's, both equally as compelling as the other. In my personal experience - there was the Swayze my mum fell in love with, the lean built and tough guy dancing instructor Johnny Castle from Dirty Dancing or the murdered Sam Wheat in Ghost, who just wanted to communicate with his lover from the grave.

For me, Swayze will always be the cover guy of the two VHS movies that were always on the top of my mum's video pile next to our old t.v. I always fondly remember a bus journey to Spain in 1992 when Ghost screened on the coach ride, and I remember her in floods of tears.

Then there's the one I enjoyed from Road House, Point Break and Red Dawn. A man's man, the often no-nonsense taking Swayze, the coolest guy on screen for a big run in the 80's. He kind of took over where John Travolta left off, bursting onto the scene when Travolta started to fade in 1983. His first ...]]></description>
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		<title>TRON LEGACY vs. GREEN HORNET vs. SMURFS vs. YOGI BEAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Smurfs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The-Green-Hornet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

As it currently stands, on Dec. 10th 2010, two different sets of movies that can't afford to share an audience with each other, will be going head to head in a Christmas box office slugfest, all hoping to rekindle a dead franchise that a huge opening could only realistically make happen. 

Tron Legacy from Disney and Sony's re-imagining of The Green Hornet will both fight it out over the older teens and adult audience. 

The family movies The Smurfs (Sony) and Yogi Bear (WB) will go after the kids and the huge cash they can often bring during the festive time of year. Alvin and the Chipmunks making $217 domestic in 2007 is proof alone of that. 

When Sony pushed back Hornet last weekend by 5 months they stumbled across a day that Disney had long planned to bring Tron back onto our big screens and when you own half of the world like Disney do, they won't budge for anyone. They aren't afraid of The Green Hornet, and I can guarantee the release date sticks for them despite a fair amount of interest picking up for the Hornet online and the Seth Rogen factor, which in actual fact might be running a little thin (Funny People, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Disney have bought Marvel!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movie News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm still trying to figure out what all this means but my God, what a breaking news story we have today.
Disney have bought out Marvel!
The New York Times say the home of Mickey Mouse has spent $4 billion in cash and stock to acquire the rights deal to over 5,000 Marvel characters and their licensing, publishing and future film possibilities. The deal mirrors Disney's multi billion dollar acquisition of Pixar a few years back, which gave that company a new lease of life and the movies Up, Ratatouille and Wall*E. 

Marvel's Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada was quick to tweet...

JoeQuesada: If you're familiar with the Disney/Pixar relationship, then you'll understand why this is a new dawn for Marvel and the comics industry.

A new dawn/Pixar?
Can you imagine it - a fully realised Marvel universe set within the realms of Pixar animation, with the best animators and storytellers we have working today crafting tales with Spider-Man, Magneto and Tony Stark?
Marvel is now owned by Disney who could take the franchise and make it into a global leader for superhero entertainment (which it was well on it's way to doing so anyway) or it can boil it down to nothing more than a corporate entity. A gimmick ...]]></description>
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		<title>What did you think of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inglorious-Bastards]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quentin-Tarantino]]></category>
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Before the lame but necessary discussion on how Quentin's film has performed at the box office, let's talk about what really maters to us. The film itself. 

I adore this movie, everything about Inglourious Basterds plays to my yearnings for movies that are about something tangible and real. This movie has so much heart and feeling. So much of a director's passion and soul spewing out in it's refreshingly larger than life characters and situations. 

Quentin gave me everything I could have ever imagined and more from his tale of World War II. A World War II I can relate too, enjoy and feel comfortable with. A WWII with a happy ending, a one with real heroes, villains and everything in between. These are people I have thought about many times in the month since I first saw the movie. I've been thinking about their backstory, how they ended up where they did, what their true motivations were, what adventures they had before and after the movie. 

It's something Quentin has done with EVERY movie he ever made. He gives you characters, but never feels like he needs to tell you everything. That's why they feel so huge. I've got questions in my ...]]></description>
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		<title>SHUTTER ISLAND locked away in Paramount&#8217;s vault until February 2010!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leonardo-DiCaprio]]></category>
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The 100% complete, first post-Academy Award winning Martin Scorsese movie - the psychological mind-fuck insane asylum, potentially mainstream/oscar worthy Leonardo DiCaprio and his famous friends thriller - has been delayed by six months. 

The long projected Oct. 2nd 2009 opening, now becomes Feb 19th 2010. The movie severely cuts down the Oscar chances of a film that really did seem like it could be a serious contender for several categories, despite it's attractiveness to the average movie-goer, it's lack of a deep resonant theme and it's sole goal to entertain whilst creeping you the hell out.

Apparently the move has nothing to do with the quality of the picture according to Nikki Finke, as the film has scored very high at test screenings, the trailer has kicked up a storm online, the movie has genuine heat and interest (two people from my walk of life who wouldn't read my site or one of my peers if I paid them have told me several times the movie looks immense) and well when does Scorsese ever let you down?

The delay is all about the money. Finke's Paramount source says...
I hear that Paramount told the filmmakers it doesn't have the financing in 2009 to spend the $50M to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Once Upon A Time in Cannes&#8230; Simon saw INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people will have now started to hear the early buzz around Tarantino's latest (thank God for Twitter eh?), and read my frankly profane initial reaction. I stand by it whole-heartedly, and I'm more than willing to indulge Tarantino's proclamation that Inglourious Basterds is a bona-fide masterpiece. You'll notice the plot details are conspicuous by their absence: if you wanted to know them in detail, the script is online (plus the multifarious reviews who have gone Spoiler crazy today), and if you have chosen not to read that I assume me spoiling it now would simply be unwelcome.



Firstly, I feel it necessary to address some of the issues that other early reviews have focused upon negatively. Rad this slowly, take in every word and digest: Inglourious Basterds is a FANTASY film, if you want a realistic war epic, this isnt the place to come (and if you didnt get that from the trailer, then shame on you for not paying attention). It is a hybrid pulp fiction set in World War II, which has to rank as an enormously brave thing to do: the saturation of that particular market is such that I was inclined to think we probably didnt need ...]]></description>
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		<title>AVATAR rejection?</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/avatar-rejection.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
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After a tirade of technical issues which blighted what should have been the pain-free debut of Avatar, the last big movie spectacle of the decade and James Cameron's first feature film since Titanic, you can finally watch the trailer hitch free. But honestly, you are set for dissapointment. It's available at Apple or HERE and HERE. Just remember you can't ever go back from this moment. You will forever think of Avatar the way this trailer depicts it. Good luck!




You may have to forgive me for being a little harsh on Jim but for months on end he has been using phrases such as "game-changer", "cutting edge" and the "future of film-making" when referring to Avatar but really, it just ain't all that, is it? Based on this evidence it's not going to radically change anything when it opens on Dec. 18th.





Sure, Avatar looks (and remember that's mostly all we have to go on here because the trailer contains only one line of dialogue and no explanation of the plot/world we are witnessing) to me like I will get my money's worth and compared to the rest of what Hollywood is spending money on these days it looks like a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Warner Bros. lose rights to SUPERMAN&#8217;S home planet!</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/warner-bros-lose-rights-to-supermans-home-planet.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jerry Siegel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

If Warner Bros. were thinking about including the often told origins of The Man of Steel in the upcoming Superman movie (which remember, they have until 2011 to put into production or they won't be able to make a movie with the character, possibly forever) then a new court ruling has totally kicked them in the ass this week.

Variety report that  the Jerry Siegel estate (Superman's co-creator) "successfully recaptured" rights to aspects of the character on Wednesday...
including the first two weeks of the daily Superman newspaper comic-strips, as well as portions of early Action Comics and Superman comic-books.

This means the Siegels -- repped by Marc Toberoff of Toberoff &#38; Associates -- now control depictions of Superman's origins from the planet Krypton, his parents Jor-El and Lora, Superman as the infant Kal-El, the launching of the infant Superman into space by his parents as Krypton explodes and his landing on Earth in a fiery crash.
All of the above are now as illegal to Warner Bros as Spider-Man and The Avengers - unless of course they can strike up a deal with the Siegel estate.

By all intents and purposes, this new ruling might actually prove to be a blessing in disguise ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody Disgusting say GODZILLA is to be rebooted!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Godzilla]]></category>
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28 movies in 55 years, only a handful of them passable (I won't claim to have seen them all because that simply wouldn't be true... but I love the 1954 original, and King Kong vs. Godzilla is MEGA FUN) - is there really anything more to say with this man-made monster that hasn't already been said?

It may just be my closed-minded thinking but Cloverfield is probably the only concept that I could have seen working for a new Godzilla in a post-9/11 America but it's now been done, and done extremely well, what new can be brought to the table?

Legendary Pictures, the production company behind both The Dark Knight and Watchmen at Warner Bros. (a very possible destination for this picture) are gearing up a "reboot" of the franchise according to Bloody Disgusting, who are running with the exclusive today. To me this sounds like the first sign of smoke from a very big fire.

We've gone about as big as we can go with Roland Emmerich's disastrous 1998 version, seen him fight all kinds of other monsters including a giant half butterfly/half moth and a three headed half dragon/half space alien, even adopt his own monstrous son, the unimaginatively named ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bryan Singer rebooting BATTLESTAR GALACTICA for the big screen, STAR TREK-esque style???</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/movie-news/bryan-singer-rebooting-battlestar-galactica-for-the-big-screen-star-trek-esque-style.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battlestar Galactica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan-Singer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Larson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

According to Hitfix, Bryan Singer is close to bringing a new reboot of the Battlestar Galactica franchise to the big screen - Universal's attempt to catch the Star Trek wave which this year saw a forgotten cult series become a surprising mainstream box office phenomenon for the first time in it's forty year history.

Can lightning strike twice here?

It's expected Singer will work closely with the 1978-1979 series creator Glen Larson who was hired in February to develop a Galactica film which had no ties to any previous cannon. So that would seem to be the state of play here, Singer will reboot the franchise J.J. Abrams style (though without a time travel continuity explanation) and cast a whole new load of fresh faced young actors and make a BIG movie which will appeal to a mass audience.

We should at this point mention that... once upon a time before Ronald D. Moore created what many sci-fi nerds believe to be the greatest space opera show since the original Kirk, Spock and flimsy 60's sets with his version of Battlestar Galatica, Bryan Singer - then hot off the heels of creating a big screen X-Men movie, had written a pilot himself for ...]]></description>
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		<title>An INGLOURIOUS debut for Chris Nolan&#8217;s INCEPTION!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christopher-Nolan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

The teaser trailer for the next cinematic entry from a director attempting to follow-on from the biggest movie of all time (I know Titanic made more money but The Dark Knight will be more significant) will have it's debut in front of Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic Inglourious Basterds, opening August 21st.

Or August 19th in the U.K. but no word if we are getting it too. Of course I'm talking about Chris Nolan and his sci-fi action drama Inception.

Security has been water-tight on this project for months at Warner Bros. who are desperate not to let script details leak at the request of Chris Nolan who wants to be able to surprise and wow us come July 15th 2010. So I wouldn't expect too much from the trailer, maybe just a glimpse at the plot but I'm sure he has the first act of his magic trick marketing meticulously planned out and it will tease us enough to get us excited.

We know who will star, and it's a great cast of names (DiCaprio, Cotillard, Watanabe, Caine, Tom Hardy, Ellen Page and Cillian Murphy) but we know very little else except it's got a huge budget (possibly over $180 million), ...]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Spielberg resurrects HALO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Halo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Steven Spielberg is in active negotiations to develop a feature film adaptation of the insansely popular Xbox video game Halo after Stuart Beattie's script blew him away and Dreamworks (who lost the cash cow of Transformers to Paramount during the recent studio split) egging him on, because they want a top money earner to stake their claim in the industry, according to IESB. 

Spielberg, Beattie and Dreamworks are pushing Microsoft hard to allow them the opportunity to make a Halo movie a reality. 

A film adaptation of Halo has lay dormant for nearly three years now when Peter Jackson and his protage Neil Blomkamp couldn't get the financing from anyone in town to make an epic movie out of the game. Beattie however wasn't to be un-done and just kept writing a script anyway. 

Back in March 2008, we reported that he had completed a script entitled Halo: Fall of Reach which was based on the game AND upon the best selling fan fiction novel from Eric Nylund.



My thoughts - well if anyone can get Halo made it would be Steven Spielberg. Peter Jackson couldn't do it... Guillermo del Toro couldn't do it... so maybe Spielberg (and maybe a very few handful of others) have the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Life goes by pretty fast&#8230; John Hughes is dead at 59</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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Before there was Judd Apatow, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater - there was John Hughes. He was the voice of the 80's generation, no doubt.

Sure James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and their technical innovations and imagination for the grandeur side of entertainment, forever changed how movies were made with their output in the 80's, but in terms of funny, relatable and just plain rewarding comedy - Hughes had no equal.

In a 10 year spell almost everything he struck was gold. Man, the images from these movies, the memories, the emotions, the music, the characters - what a legacy....
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, WEIRD SCIENCE, PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES, UNCLE BUCK, PRETTY IN PINK, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION, THE GREAT OUTDOORS, DUTCH and HOME ALONE.
Hughes died of a heart attack today whilst taking a walk in New York. This won't be the last tribute to Hughes on this website. 
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		<title>Houston&#8230; we HAD a problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Willis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was off sunning in up in the Balearics, and Matt was enjoying the high-life (and seeing Inglourious Basterds in the process) down in the Capital, the kind people at our hosting service decided they would shut us down. Apparently it was for "a high server load" - though their idea of high server load is someway off what I would suggest it to be. I guess this is probably what we deserved for using a second rate hosting package for the last 12 months.

All should now be back up and running. ]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Castaway with Lance Daly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The outstanding Irish indie film KISSES about to runaways on the streets of Dublin is coming out in the UK, so we caught up with director Lance Daly to find out what he'd want to watch on our lonely desert island cinema...



OWF: So, Lance, we've marooned you on our desert island: what 5 films would you take with you and why?

LD: Well, they'd have to be films you can watch over and over again wouldn't they?

OWF: Yeah, you're going to be stuck for a while!

LD: I'd have to pick a really long one anyway, that'd be ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. It manages to be brilliant right through that long duration, and it's always so affecting at the end. And then RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK... maybe!

OWF: Is that to inject some fun into your stay on the island?

LD: It'd actually be for the romance, believe it or not! It'd be for the Daaa-daa-da-da-da-da-da! You know? The love theme and stuff, there's something about that which really makes sense to me. So I'd take RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and then something by... I'm tempted to say a Fellini picture but I might get sick of it, so ...]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Movie Drug Dealers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth Bunkham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Let me just start off by saying that “Drugs are bad, mmmmkay…” and being a drug dealer isn’t really something that should be celebrated…

However, this is a film site, this is a top ten list and Hollywood is littered with immoral, narcotic obsessed scumbags… Enough about producers though, what about the actors and the drug pedalling characters they have portrayed on the big screen…?

Modern cinema loves a good drug tale and we have seen everything from the cautionary to the straight up encouraging so just who are the top 10 drug dealers to have pushed their product on audiences across the world…?


#10
Lance
played by Eric Stoltz
in Pulp Fiction 
(1994)

According to that reliable fountain of information Courtney Love, her late husband Kurt Cobain turned down the role of drug dealer Lance in Quentin Tarantino’s OSCAR-winning Pulp Fiction before the role eventually went to the man who was Marty McFly for a few weeks, Eric Stoltz.

Had Cobain not turned down the role, Love would have played Lance’s better half, human pin-cushion Jody, so goes Love’s tale anyway. But alas that didn’t happen, Rosanna Arquette took on Jody, and the scenes involving Lance and Jody didn’t become a complete farce.

Eric Stoltz’s Lance looks like ...]]></description>
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		<title>Matt reviews PUBLIC ENEMIES, best movie of the year so far&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Mann's Public Enemies, which I saw last night with a tough late teen/early 20's crowd whose only mumbled reaction their limited mindset could churn out was "that was boring", is in actual fact a refreshingly original and exhilarating depiction of the 1930's era of Chicago gangster crimefare, a welcomed treat to a junk filled summer. 

A movie that left me in shock and awe during several of it's more dramatic and action set pieces, on the edge of my seat at least once and even left me questioning life's morality by the end. 

Not bad going for an early July blockbuster, but in truth, it's a modern American classic and a real Oscar contender that should never open in the scorching heat of the summer because despite the marquee attraction of it's cast, this is never going to be a mainstream crowd-pleaser.

 



Sure it's got Hollywood hearthrob Johnny Depp once again playing the bad guy who refuses to conform to the rules of the world and naturally becomes the man we pin our hopes on (Sweeney Todd, Pirates of the Caribbean) and yeah it's got ladies favourite Christian Bale as a single-minded, aggressive detective who will use everything in his power to take ...]]></description>
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		<title>Public Enemies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Mann, Depp, Dillinger. Throw in a bit of Bale and you have an explosive mix of cinematic talent that can't fail to draw interest, not least here at OWF where Alex Diaz has given us some excellent insights into previous portrayals of the intriguing gangster. But how does Mann handle him? And can Depp tone down his characteristic quirkiness for the part?

The combination of Mann and Depp worked surprisingly well, with Dillenger shown less as a guns-blazin' gangster (that role is filled by Stephen Graham's Baby Face Nelson) and more as a man of morals who knows nothing except how to rob banks: and do it with style. Early scenes show him returning money to customers and avoiding bloodshed at all costs. His romance with Billie Frechette is brought in nice and early to expand Dillenger's stong, silent character into the realms of love and chivalry and the dynamic with the various characters of his gang work to make Dillenger stand out as an intelligent and thoughtful character rather than just a violent crook.

All of this panders to Depp's strengths and he delivers a performance to remember. All of his expert knowledge of playing mysterious souls is internalised, giving the ...]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN 3: Worst Case Scenario</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Scenario:
You are the head of Warner Bros. Comic Book Movies are huge business but your track record of producing them hasn't been consistent or stellar, with the exception of Watchmen and the Batman franchise. You watch with envious eyes as Marvel position themselves to a platform where they can release as many as six movies per year in the very near future, if their blueprint for success turns out the way they have planned.

2011 alone should see Spider-Man 4, Captain America and Thor, with possibly more TBA.

Marvel are winning the race but you have the Batman ace up your sleeve, a character who is possibly the most popular protagnist in the history of film. But you are starting to get nervous. Your director Christopher Nolan is seriously considering his future with the franchise, he may be ready to move on - you may be about lose your biggest asset. Christian Bale also begins to get cold feet too and is now confused over what is going on with the series.

You have given Chris Nolan 1/5th of The Dark Knight box office takings to make his science fiction epic Inception and to give him some time to clear his head as he ...]]></description>
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		<title>50 Reasons why GHOSTBUSTERS Just Might be the Greatest Film of all Time&#8230;and one Reason why Maybe it Isn&#8217;t</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fallows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the release this week of Ghostbusters (1984) on Blu-Ray....



and the new Ghostbusters Videogame coming on the 19th June...



Tom Fallows decided it was about time to see what exactly makes the movie great.

1. Bill Murray – this movie made him a movie star and allowed us such later delights as Groundhog Day (1993), Lost in Translation (2003) and Broken Flowers (2005).


 2. The Dialogue. Just transcribing the movie would enough reason why Ghostbusters achieves greatness. This list contains as many classic quotes as we could fit. i.e.
“You forget, Peter. I was present at an undersea unexplained sponge migration,” – Ray. See?
3. Ray Parker Jr’s Theme Song. All together now, “Who ya gonna call?”


4. Ivan Reitman – the movie proves that Reitman can direct a movie. If this went to court, and the prosecution produced Father’s Day (1997) and Evolution (2001) as Exhibits A &#38; B, then the defence would only need to show Ghostbusters to result in an instant dismissal.

5. Old Boy Heroes – in an age obsessed with youth, it’s nice to see four heroes old enough to be your dad.
6. “Generally you don’t see that kind of behaviour in a major appliance,” – Peter on hearing Dana Barrett ...]]></description>
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