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The Last Exorcism possesses UK top spot
Demonic horror The Last Exorcism is this week’s top grossing UK film.
Read more…Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel to be “really… really nasty”
Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise… and this time it’s going to be gruesome. More gruesome. Whatever.
Read more…The Illusionist
If you thrilled to the charming bumblings of M Hulot and gazed spellbound at the visual feast of Belleville Rendez-vous, then brace yourself. Based on a Jacques Tati script adapted by director Sylvain Chomet, The Illusionist has the best of both directors’ vision.
Read more…The Last Airbender and the racebending controversy
M. Night Shyamalan hopes to regain his box office crown with The Last Airbender, a fantasy where Asians and Inuits save the world. Yet there is barely an Asian or Inuit in sight. Has Shyamalan rolled right inuit? Find out more about the racebending controversy here…
Read more…New Avatar trailer… somehow.
You know what we didn’t hear enough about? That Pocahontus film about the blue people, what was it called again? The director made quite a famous film about some boat back in the day, erm… oh dear… Avatar! That’s it! Such a shame that slipped so low under the international radar, eh? Fortunately for us though, it’s getting re-released! No, really.
Read more…Meat Love Don’t Cost a Thing
We explore the low-budget short films of Jan Svankmajer, and ask whether escapism needs to be an expensive venture…
Read more…The Princess And The Frog: DVD Review
It may be strange to think it, but in an age where we’re so used to 3D creatures, pixilated flying houses and talking toys, a 2D film can be considered pushing the boundaries of today’s kids entertainment. Gone is the golden age of Disney classics- The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin - all-singing, all dancing, all bloomin’ marvelous. Today what kids want is explosions, nifty special effects and some smooth-talking robots, right?
Read more…Avatar: DVD Review
Ten years of production, the development of a whole new stereoscopic technology and a marketing blitzkrieg so intense that even lost tribes in the jungles of Borneo are aware of it. The buzz around Avatar has been almost unprecedented – James Cameron’s long-awaited return to sci-fi has been panned, praised and everything in between even before it was released. Approaching Avatar with an open mind, we discovered one of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful and immersive films of recent years.
Read more…Avatar DVD Breaks Records
So, in the US, Avatar has broken records for the fastest selling DVD of all time, selling 6.7 million DVD and Blu-Rays in its opening four days. It snatches the record away from The Dark Knight, which previously held it with which sold 2.7 million on its opening day, 500,000 copies shy of Avatar’s 3.2 million.
Read more…ID4 back for more?
So it turns out that, contrary to common belief, the world wasn’t entirely obliterated by alien attacks fourteen years ago. If the rumours emanating from Hollywood are believed to be true, it looks like Will Smith will be reprising the role of Captain Steven Hiller not once, but twice, as 20th Century Fox prepare to announce the sequels to 1996’s Independence Day.
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