Posted by Simon Gallagher on July 14, 2010 · View Comments
Forget all those Cash for Gold adverts that pepper day-time television like a garrish, annoying pox, the real way to make a clever buck is to invest in Pixar. Look at the case for investment: they are yet to make a film that is not heralded as a success with both critics and audiences; they [...]
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Posted by Barry Steele on July 2, 2010 · View Comments
So the reviews are coming in for The Last Airbender, and boy, it don’t look pretty. There had been hope that it would be a resurrection of sorts for M. Night Shyamalan’s filmmaking career but, as it stands, it could be the final nail. So is this the end for the once loved director? The [...]
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Posted by Barry Steele on December 4, 2009 · View Comments
Last week i wrote an article questioning why movies with low average review ratings, like New Moon, break box office records regardless. It got me thinking about the whole concept of rating a movie, and whether ‘marks out of ten’ was really still a useful film criticism tool. Here at HUG, like many modern movie [...]
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