Depending on which side of the fence you sit, Alice in Wonderland represents either the apex or the nadir of Burton’s uniquely styled product. Fans will surely relish the sumptuous design work while objectors will find lumps of twee sticking in their craw -make no mistake, Alice in Wonderland is a movie almost as curious as it’s heroine.
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Crazies
2 CommentsFebruary 23, 2010 – 2:01 pm
If your plan is to make an all-action popcorn flick, the Holocaust isn’t a port of call most directors would consider making, but Brett Eisner’s Romero reboot somehow manages to make it a completely acceptable analogy even while we’re watching Radha Mitchell fight off bands of bat-shit locals with a pitchfork.
The Oscars 2010
0 CommentsFebruary 19, 2010 – 1:35 pm
The Oscars! Once a year, a bunch of hopeless weirdos get together and nominate the year’s worst movies to receive a foot-tall piece of plastic that’s been sprayed gold and give gushing three hour speeches. In the past few years the list of categories has grown so huge that the ceremony lasts approximately 6 weeks – just long enough for Steve Martin’s hourly rate to cover the HP on his Ferrari.
Anyway, because we are the best film site ever, we reckon we’ve ingested enough peyote to see into the future and predict who’s going to win, and because those fine purveyors of discount lovefilm memberships over at vouchercodes.co.uk are running a sweepstakes, we’re going to lay it on the line and go head to head with a few other sites that seem to think they know something about movies – even though not a single one of them has published a Jason Statham retrospective this year!
To make things simple, we’ve decided to ignore dorky categories like ‘Best Window Dressing’ and go with the big hitters –don’t agree? Why not you feckless dog? Well go on then, if you think you know better, tell us!
And the winners are…
Newsgush: The Crazies Trailer Crazyness
0 CommentsFebruary 18, 2010 – 2:17 pm
Reposted from our esteemable colleagues over at watchwithmothers.net:
I say – here’s a decent way of whiling away some time!
You may have seen this new film trailed on the television. Well now you can be in the trailer.
What with The Crazies coming out in cinemas soon, the studio’s come up with an amusing way of making the trailer go viral, enabling you to add their actual, real face into the clip using technology! Try it here.
I had a go at doing it with the face of George Lamb – but there’s no limit to who you can get involved. Paul Shane, Dawn Porter, Noel Edmonds… the whole world of TV is at your fingertips.
While you’re about, it why not have a look at the trailer…
Bargain Bin Breakout: She-Creature
0 CommentsFebruary 18, 2010 – 11:29 am
Major studios currently have one rule when it comes to horror – remake, remake, and remake again. Slasher flicks are the norm, usually with a tired, post-Scream makeover for the ironic/not-ironic-but-don’t-actually-know-any-better audience. With this in mind, it may come as a surprise to find STS championing a remake, especially one that doesn’t even have the benefit of decent source material. Be under no illusions, She-Creature contains all the ingredients for a crap-fest of epic proportions.
Taking a bloody awful 1956 Samual Arkoff movie as source, She-Creature thankfully plays fast and loose with it, originally billing itself as ‘the mermaid chronicles part 1’ it seems they couldn’t be bothered to make any follow-ups. Either that or they had so much fun with this that they knew it couldn’t be topped.
