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Review: Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine isn't like other filmmakers, and his films aren't like other films. Anyone who saw Trash Humpers will have noticed that it was difficult to compare to anything else in its genre, because the genre of movies about people wearing grotesque masks and having sex with bins contains precisely one film: Trash Humpers. This is obviously a good thing: cinema needs mavericks like Korine to come along once in a while and kick the medium up the bum. To some extent it doesn't even matter whether or not his films are any good. He's an artist, and his films are statements.

Review: Oz The Great And Powerful

Big CGI adaptations of classic children's literature will now always bring to mind the Technicolor yawn that was Burton's Alice In Wonderland. As with that film, this prequel’s bright, colourful landscape and cartoonish, pixelated characters always looked to me like they would produce the same uninspiring results. But thankfully, while Oz may still look like it has been twinned with the garish Wonderland here, somewhere under the rainbow, you might find some real, genuine magic.

The problem with Sam Raimi's Oz prequel, illustrated by its own poster

There's something about Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great And Powerful that's been bothering me: it appears to be being marketed as Alice In Wonderland 2: The Rendering.

Spot the Oz: The Great And Powerful poster among other fantasy witch art

A new one-sheet has been released for Sam Raimi's Oz-venture and it looks... well, like it's been drawn by a daydreaming fantasist. What ever happened to needless sparks and helicopters?

A nice big picture of James Franco in Spring Breakers, just because

Slow news day is slow. (Full size pic here).

Review: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes

Since the original Planet of the Apes was released in 1968, it has spawned four sequels, two TV series and a critically disparaged Burton remake. But that all finished 10 years ago so of course it’s time for a prequel/reboot/cash-grab. But can this new film actually offer anything new to a pretty well-exhausted canon, or is it just scraping the bottom of the barrel of monkeys?

Jeff Buckley biopic incoming: someone alert James Franco

Tragic music biopic gets the green light. Across Hollywood, the ears of every young white male actor with basic guitar skills prick up.

Review: 127 Hours

Danny Boyle's films have always been about men staring into the abyss - individuals who pull back from teetering on the brink of destruction, whether it's down to vice, obsession or desperation. 127 Hours is DanBo stripped down to the basics, pitting man versus nature. The only difference is that Aron Ralston is stuck in the abyss, staring out.

[Insert famous names here] now linked to Alien prequels

The latest big movie stars to be linked with Ridley Scott's Alien prequels? Anne Hathaway and James Franco, who join Natalie Portman, Noomi Rapace, Gemma Arterton and 80 other actors on a pointless list of nonsense.

Trailer for Danny Boyle's mountain rescue drama, 127 Hours

It's like 88 Minutes, but waaay longer.