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Six Of The Best – Straight Outta Boston

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Seth MacFarlane’s “Ted” is doing excellently and deservedly solid business on both sides of the pond this month, with its Boston-set tale of a soft, cuddly and very rude bear and his impact on Mark Wahlberg’s attempts to behave like a grown up in his relationship with long-term girlfriend Mila Kunis. Why Boston-set? Well presumably [...]




Seven Movies That Should Be Games

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What if games developers opened their minds and chose the right movies? Read on. Game movies suck. There’s just no getting around it, they really, truly suck. Near enough the only game movie I’ve ever been able to just about tolerate was the first Tomb Raider, and even that was preposterous. You’ve got to look [...]




Producer Roy Lee Talks Oldboy Remake Changes

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I’ve composed a fair number of posts on the upcoming Oldboy remake and have never ceased to sing the praises of the original, which manages to be thrilling, disturbing and astonishing in equal measure. I’m not sure to what extent Korean revenge thrillers are everyone’s cup of tea, or how many of you have an [...]




Avatar Tops Another List, This Time as Most Pirated Film Ever!

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A top ten list of the most pirated films in Hollywood history has been complied by TorrentFreak, and it comes as no surprise to see that Avatar sits at number one, having been downloaded an incredible 21 million times since it was released in 2009 (wasn’t one of Jim Cameron’s many arguments for 3D the [...]




A Sequel to Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Departed’ on the Way?

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In an interview with Leicester Square TV at the London Hong Kong Film Week, Infernal Affairs writer and director Alan Mak thinks that a second ‘The Departed’ movie could be on the way but no news yet as to whether Martin Scorsese would return to direct. Mak wrote the screenplay for the original movie, Infernal [...]




Sin City 2 Welcomes a Departed Arrival

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Goodness me, the development of Sin City 2 has been going on forever. There was a time when its entry on IMDb showed “In Production” for a 2010 release, which I think we can all now agree is unrealistic. At Comic-Con in July, Rodriguez said that funding was in place and that shooting would begin [...]




London Boulevard DVD Review

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Fresh out of prison, a young man named Mitchell (a greying and older-looking Colin Farrell) is sought out by his former associates who want to see him back to his old, unlawful way of life. Unsure of committing, Mitchell also has his sights set on taking on the potential role of bodyguard to a reclusive, [...]




2011 Oscar Predictions

Internal industry politics and sentiment are always a decisive factor in the Oscar beauty contest, and must always be accounted for (despite the assertions by many that Mickey Rourke would win for The Wrestler a few years ago, I was certain he wouldn’t as he pissed a lot of people off in the early years of [...]




William Monahan To Write/Direct Becket

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William Monahan, the writer behind Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller The Departed, will write and direct Becket, a adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s acclaimed play of the same name. Becket is a depiction of the conflict between Thomas Becket and KingHenry II of England leading to Becket’s murder in 1170. Monahan will base his film on the text of [...]