Posted by
Ali at 21:43 on 19 Jan 2010
Brace yourself for a whole new slew of Star Wars re-releases, complete with a whole new dimension. It's all Avatar's fault, apparently.
Posted by
Ali at 18:24 on 17 Jan 2010
Trust me, this is going somewhere. I think.
Posted by
Ali at 23:45 on 18 Dec 2009
Generally listening to a film nerd tell you in detail why they disliked a film is about as pleasurable as trying to extract a wisdom tooth. But this critique of The Phantom Menace is different. Why? Because it's correct.
Posted by
Andy at 17:40 on 26 Nov 2009
Teen girls suck. There, I said it. And I don't mean in the "verify your credit card to access" internet specialist site way that makes you feel vaguely dirty and seedy even if you are researching a book or something.
Posted by
Ali at 11:20 on 26 Nov 2009
And the award for Only Person Who Still Believes Performance Capture Is The Future goes to...
Posted by
Ali at 22:42 on 26 Oct 2009
On Wednesday 28 October, thousands of Michael Jackson fans will flock to cinemas to see This Is It, a concert movie that is unique, because technically there is no concert to speak of. Instead, This Is It contains footage of Jackson in rehearsal for his 50-night residency at London's O2 Arena – a commitment which ultimately proved too much for him.
Posted by
Andy at 20:28 on 20 Sep 2009
Independent Cinema. A once byword for daring, independent filmmaking has been co-opted by the studios into what now means a quirky, feel-good turd wrapped in a soundtrack by the likes of Smog, Ween and any other number of lo-fi bands that play coffee-houses across America.
It seems for a good few years now we've been stuck in a rut when it comes to contemporary horror. That rut has earned itself the label of "torture porn," a genre of horror films whose storylines revolve around sadistic killers torturing helpless victims while the camera swoops, pans around and zooms in, capturing every severed artery and globule of blood in almost loving detail.
Posted by
Ali at 17:03 on 24 Aug 2009
The entire internet and their cyberpets have been blogging about the Avatar footage all weekend. Now it's my turn.
Posted by
Ali at 20:14 on 09 Aug 2009
It takes a certain type of movie to actually insult the intelligence of people who enjoyed a Michael Bay movie, but G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra is that movie.