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Future of 3D films
What is the future of 3D films? Avatar made the water 3D, then blew everything out of it. Tron: Legacy, whilst being undeniably rubbish, made $44 million in its opening weekend in the US alone, and the list of franchises to have secured box office success continues to grow. So is the future of 3D films secure, or is this a pretty 3D flash in an otherwise 2D pan?
Read more…Avatar is most pirated film of 2010
Where are the 16.58 million people who downloaded Avatar this year? How can we stop them from breeding?
Read more…A Matter of Life and Death
At the invitation of the Swedenborg Society, Best For Film is publishing a special series of reviews to follow its ‘Images of the Afterlife in Cinema’ film season, which will be exploring life, death and everything in between. This week we take a look at what happens when there’s a mix up in heaven in A Matter of Life and Death.
Read more…Eat Pray Love
Imagine that all that was once gold has turned to rusty iron. Yeah, it’s bad, but most of us have too many responsibilities and not enough in the bank, to just go swanning off for a year. But say if you were an unhappy, attractive American woman with money to spare who longs to “marvel at something”, then you probably wouldn’t find yourself laying about in your pjs, picking fluff out of your bellybutton. Most likely you would go galavanting off into the sunset. Puh-lease. Come back to the real world, Julia Roberts.
Read more…The Avengers’ Hulk to be motion captured. Mark Ruffalo excited.
Mark Ruffalo will be donning one of those flattering ping-pong ball covered jumpsuits in order to wreak some havoc as the big green monstrosity. He couldn’t be happier, but he could be better informed…
Read more…No frills film? Or a 3D, widescreen, snacks-a-plenty cinema experience?
There’s no doubt about it; cinema ain’t what it used to be. What with new and improved seating, 3D films assaulting your retinas and more snacks then you can shake your expanding belly at, going to the flicks has become somewhat different to that of our forefathers. So who’s for an extra-crispy, oven-roasted, honey-glazed, menagerie of cinema with extra sprinkles, all topped with a quails egg?
Read more…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.
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