It’s testament to the incredible fortitude and heroism of WWII that nary a month goes by without some tale of hitherto unknown valour reaching our screens, and Robert Guédiguian’s drama continues the trend with an angry take on events in the French Resistance.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
NewsGush: Stars On Mars
0 CommentsSeptember 30, 2009 – 10:39 am
News in from Heat Vision about the expanding of upcoming interstellar epic John Carpenter of Mars.
James Purefoy, Mark Strong and Thomas Haden Church will all be getting their asses to the red planet to hook up with Taylor Kitsch –you may have seen him previously lurking in Wolverine – Samantha Morton and Willem Dafoe.
No news on a Director yet, but Spider-Man 2 writer Michael Chabon is adapting Edgar Rice Burrough’s lysergic tale of a US Civil War veteran transported to a colourful alien world of 10 foot tall, four-limbed Martian warriors, exotic princesses and balding, godlike beings.
Sounding like the kind of wildly original, incredibly ambitious set-up that’s normally reserved for animation, STS is already jiggling about in anticipation.
What do you think? Is this the new Star Wars, or the Star Wars prequels?
Network Homicide!
0 CommentsSeptember 29, 2009 – 2:55 pm
It used to be cats in cupboards providing the shocks, but as this compilation from the guys at 2Whoa.com shows, these days not being able to remotely update your Twitter is a far more serious threat!
NewsGush: For Sale – Used Terminator
5 CommentsSeptember 29, 2009 – 11:55 am
Kyle Reese, The T-800, Sarah and John Connor. It looks like global recession may succeed where they all failed and knock out Skynet for good –if a buyer for the Terminator rights can’t be found soon.
“Terminator Salvation: It’s alright I Suppose” Didn’t exactly fire up the box office the way struggling License owners Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek hoped, and now bankruptcy is a-knocking they’re attempting to flog off the dying horse, despite the franchise seemingly carrying a curse; bankrupting every studio that touches it.
It’s probable whoever picks up the rights will squeeze out another McG/Christian Bale shoutathon, although the future of Warner’s Sarah Connor Chronicles and related spin-offs has been cast into serious shadow.
We here at STS were disappointed in the post-T2 drop-off in killer robot quality, and we’d happily organise a whip round to raise the estimated $60Million value, but unfortunately we’re currently $59,999,997.50 short. Dig deep readers-the future is in your hands.
Unhappy with the direction Terminator has taken? Assuming it’s under new management which direction would you like to see the franchise take?
Long Live The Stath!
0 CommentsSeptember 28, 2009 – 2:37 pm
Jason Statham.
A rumbling carved-from granite cockerney chancer and one time British National Diving Squad member: Perfect for low-budget crap like Death Race and innumerable sequels right?
Wrong.
As he cements his place in the international action fraternity in upcoming Sly mercenary flick The Expendables, it’s time more people recognised The Stath for what he is – an iron willed made-in-Britain action monster that STS bloody loves!
To prove it, we’ve come up with the following list to showcase his versatility, believability and all-round ass-kickery as an actor. Duck and cover, and for God’s sake don’t make any bald jokes as we look at the only dodgy cockney ever to trade up from Kelly Brook, and check out the best of The Stath!
