After sweeping the boards at this years Oscars, Katheryn Bigelow could be forgiven for sitting back to enjoy her ex-husband baiting success and asking “Who do you have to blow up to get a Martini round here?”. Instead, word is that the former Keanu-wrangler is already on the lookout for new projects.
Being the helpful souls we are, Slashing the Seats thought we’d pitch a few suitable follow-up’s to help the Point Break helmer re-create this year’s success -and fulfill our obligatory Oscars coverage in the process!
Of course, we’ve only worked our way through half the alphabet while conjouring up this list of steaming awards-magnets. Have you got a better idea?
Can you think of any more vaguely rhyming knock-off versions of this years best picture (that in no way means I can palm this assignment off on you and still collect the royalty cheque)?
What do you want to see the first female best director do next? Let us know!
Seeing as The Dude himself recently saw fit to strap on a guitar and bash out a few maudlin country tunes in the Oscar-bothering Crazy Heart, cementing his place (We’ll forget about ‘The Fabulous Baker Boys for now…and forever) in an illustrious list of wandering minstrels who haven’t always managed to pluck the heart strings of the academy committee. We decided to open our ears to some new vibes, man, so join us as we update our spotify playlists with…the best musicians in movies!
Jonathan Ross aside, movie geeks aren’t generally known for cutting a sartorial dash – after all, if you’re going to spend most of your time in a darkened room, covered in popcorn crumbs and nacho cheese it makes sense to dress down a little huh? But their will always be a moment when you emerge, blinking into the light of the foyer, and realise that the really cute usher is totally checking you out – and you with ketchup stains all over your pants!
Luckily Dark Bunny Tees have put an awful lot of effort into making the ridiculously geeky look good – not something you can say often about a guy wearing a Back to the Future T-Shirt! This 25th anniversary time-travel gear caught our eye recently, and unless you happen to have a souped-up DeLorean yourself you’d better grab one quick before they’re gone.
Even if you miss out on Dr.Brown’s high-quality togs don’t panic, there’s a bunch of other cool stuff lurking on the website, including the ultra-kawaii Star Wars family (above) or for those of you who want your clothing to scare the crap out of people, maybe a Ringu design might better suit sir?
Anyway, we’re all wandering round the office in these things, and frankly if they can make us look less dorky, you’ll probably resemble James Bond in the suave stakes once you get your hands on one.
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!
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.
