The Green Hornet – Starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou and Christoph Waltz. Directed by Michel Gondry. Rated M. Originally published January 19, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. The Green Hornet looks and feels as if it were made by a bunch of (highly talented) 10-year-old boys. Taking any pleasure in the film depends on your willingness […]
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Archive | May, 2011
Second rate – X-Men: First Class review
May 31, 2011 
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X-Men: First Class – Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. With The Dark Knight, we got the first great Batman movie. With Spiderman 2, we got the first great Spiderman movie. We’re still waiting for the first great X-Men movie. Although the mutant Marvel […]
Read moreTrailer Debut: 50/50
May 30, 2011 1 Comment
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has cancer … in the new trailer for the comedy 50/50 co-starring Seth Rogen. In the Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) directed film – originally titled I’m With Cancer and then Live With It – JoGo plays Adam, a 27-year-old radio writer who is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. Rogen plays […]
Read moreSarah Palin biopic to draw Joan of Arc parallels; feature violent animal imagery
May 30, 2011 1 Comment
According to Deadline, a two-hour feature film about Sarah Palin is set to hit American screens next month. Commissioned by the lady herself, The Undefeated is scheduled to premiere in Iowa, the first big primary election state for the 2012 presidential campaign. It is a shrewd and, arguably, cynical move from the political team of […]
Read moreTeaser Debut: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
May 30, 2011 0 Comments
The first Red Band trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has appeared online. Tickets to the self-proclaimed “feel bad movie of Christmas” are sure to be atop many people’s Xmas lists after seeing this teaser. The American adaptation of the best-selling Swedish crime trilogy by Stieg Larsson stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig […]
Read moreOrlando Bloom signs up for The Hobbit
May 30, 2011 2 Comments
Production may have officially started more than two months ago, and his character Legolas may not actually appear in J.R.R. Tolkien’s original tome, but Orlando Bloom has signed up to appear in Peter Jackson‘s long-plagued two-picture adaptation of The Hobbit. The casting – although long-rumoured – was announced over the weekend on the official Hobbit […]
Read moreWorld’s worst directors making Avatar spoof
May 27, 2011 1 Comment
The world would be a boring place if everyone agreed about everything, especially when it comes to art. Thank goodness for the internet then, where you can read thoughtful defences and appreciations of artists as diverse (yet similarly polarising) as Justin Bieber, Lars von Trier and more. No such defences have been written on Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Even […]
Read moreDavid O. Russell no longer directing Uncharted
May 27, 2011 0 Comments
Oscar-nominated director David O. Russell (The Fighter, Three Kings) will no longer direct the film adaptation of the popular video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. The news comes from Deadline, although no reason for Russell’s exit has been mentioned. It is unknown if frequent Russell collaborator Mark Wahlberg still remains attached to play Drake. Fans of the video […]
Read moreTeaser Debut: Happy Feet Two
May 27, 2011 1 Comment
The teaser trailer for Happy Feet Two has debuted online. As if you hadn’t already assumed as much, it features a bunch of rapping penguins. Back in 2006, director George Miller‘s Happy Feet became a surprise box office success and wound up beating Pixar’s Cars to the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the Academy Awards. […]
Read moreFirst look at 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival
May 27, 2011 0 Comments
The first batch of titles heading to this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (running 21 July to 7 August) were revealed today, and they include a number of exciting local features, long-awaited international flicks and a Cannes prize winner. We’ve been waiting to catch Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture for some time; they’ll both […]
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