June 2010
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Facebook: The Movie
You’re David Fincher. You blitz the 90s with films like Se7en & Fight Club and you brought in the last 10 years well recieved films including Zodiac & Benjamin Button. You’ve made films enjoyed by everyone from critics to the paying customers to the cult fanboys.
So where can you go in 2010? Well of course you accept an offer from Kevin Spacey to direct a film he’s...
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“There will be no rescue, no intervention force. We can only save ourselves. Many...”
– Paul Rusesabagina (Portrayed By Don Cheadle. Hotel Rwanda, 2004)
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I Love You Phillip Morris: The Film You May Never...
Did you know that at the start of 2009 a gay romance film starring Ewan McGregor & Jim Carrey was shown at the Sundance Festival? Yet the viewing public won’t get to see it any earlier than November of this year, and possibly even later.
It’s not because it’s bad (it’s apparently a well done comedy) and It’s not because it’s offensive (although it was...
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What Went Wrong? (Wild Things)
Where The Wild Things Are (2009) In late 2008, it was announced that Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s book Where The Wild Things Are would receive a large budget adaption to the big screen to be released October 2009. With Spike Jonze directing/writing, Sendak himself assisting in producing and Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O signed on to produce the soundtrack, the film was set up...
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“I’m not finished”
– Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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Film Classic: Clerks
It’s in black and white, it was made on an extremely minimal budget of $27,000 & it was the directorial debut of Kevin Smith. Yet Clerks managed to gross a respectable $3M at the box office and recieved an even more respectable cult following.
Working on one of the simplest premises to grace the screen, Clerks tells the story of two friends, Dante (Brian O’Halloran) & Randal...
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An Anachronism
Thought i should actually have a film blog. If you are wondering how you managed to start following this random blog, i just cleaned up the 50 film characters blog. enjoy!
To explain the title, Anachronism: Anachronisms are something out of place historically or chronologically. In film it could be anything from a roman soldier wearing a watch, to a deceased character in the background later on...