The Adjustment Bureau
2 Sep
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooooooh! AND Emily Blunt. Ooh.
3 Aug
Neil Marshall made Dog Soldiers and The Descent, and that Doomsday film that shot in Cape Town. This one – Centurion, starring the rakish and handsome Michael Fassbender – is about a Roman legion that’s wiped out by pissed off Celts. I’ve heard it’s a bit crap, but you can bet your life I’ll be first in line when it opens…..
31 Jul
In the excellent and actually blinkin’ scary 30 Days of Night, the Vampires are not soppy and they don’t drive Volvos. Enough said. (Plus: Josh Hartnett rocks.) But I didn’t realise that the movie (which filmed in New Zealand, of all places) was based on just the first installment in a series of comic books. So there’s lots and lots of original content still to come. Next up, the sequel: 30 Days of Night; Dark Days, aka Stella’s Revenge (I’m guessing).
23 Jul
I’m not an Angelina fan. I think beneath that glossy fat-lipped sheen she probably pupates and eats her young. But – in the same vein as, say, dinky nutter Tom Cruise or that shameless old hack, the devil’s own Nicky Cage – she has a perplexing level of success that brings her the kinds of film projects I’m loathesomely keen to watch.
In Salt, she plays an agent accused of being a Russian spy, leading to all kind of skop-skip-en-donder. It would have been so-so-yawn as yet another Tom Cruise film: the role was written for him. But whilst Angelina remains as likely a case for a Munchausen’s-By-Proxy diagnosis as I’ve ever seen, she will probably raise this above the norm.
12 Jul
Another up-and-coming: Predators. Hawaii-Texas locations. Utterly crap trailer, but no, really, I cannot wait….
7 Jul
OK, so clearly there’s not been an awful lot of movie-watching going on, what with the World Cup and all on our very doorstep. Hence another look at what’s coming at us down the pipe. Inception looks awesome.
Mind-shifting thriller. Tick. Ellen Page. Tick. Joseph Gordon Levitt. Tick. Music by Hans Zimmer. Tick. Christopher Nolan directs. Tick tick tick. Oh, I am so looking forward to this one….