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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Trailers
3 hours ago
Next year will see the release of the Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer production of Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time. Based on the popular videogame and starring Jake Gyllenhaal sporting a British accent, Disney has huge hopes for this adaptation. Could it be as lucrative as the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise?
After watching the three new trailers (two international and one Us) I am still in two minds about this one. While it looks very expensive I can’t help but find Gyllenhaal just slightly miscast.
The story will loosely follow the plot of one of the later games in the series as our hero finds a dagger that gives him the ability to turn back time with magic sand. He must get it back to its rightful owners before the evil Ben Kinglsey uses it to destroy the world.
Directed by Mike Newell the film has Jake and »
- Alex Wagner
Our Ed And James King Talk Jennifer’s Body
4 hours ago
Psst!
Have you seen Diablo Cody’s latest teen angst film – Jennifer’s Body yet? We have, or more to the point our own Ed Whitfield has (review here) and once he’d recovered from his Megan Fox hit, Ed was given the chance to talk to BBC film critic James King about Jb and the whole teen film genre to boot!
Check out the audio below, feel free to add your comments!
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- Craig Sharp
A Christmas Carol Review – Not Quite Magical Yet!
4 hours ago
Robert Zemeckis is so convinced by the creative merits of motion-capture technology he has abandoned live-action filmmaking. Forever. Or so he keeps telling anybody who will listen. The director would argue he has freed himself from the tyrannies of filmmaking and problems he could not control. Mo-cap has destroyed the accidents, trouble and hassle associated with undertaking a major production. With untold creative choices, it seems Zemeckis has become rather stuck. If it is such a radical, revolutionary tool – why not use it as such?
In choosing material, Zemeckis, very tellingly, has gone for literary adaptations: from children’s books to Dickens (with a poetic epic in between). If the director created an original work off his own back (and imagination) would it appeal to us as much? Raiding literature for material is nothing new. Yet there is a sense he’s never held a burning desire to make any »
- Martyn Conterio
Now You Can Own Your Own Terminator!
2 November 2009 5:22 AM, PST
If you’ve ever wanted to own your own cybernetic organism, killing machine, or a piece of Skynet, then this could be right up your alley!
The film rights to the Terminator franchise are going up for auction, following the financial collapse of the series’ most recent custodian’s – Halcyon earlier this year.
Several big Hollywood studios are expressing an interest in the sale, in which the winning bidder will be given all rights to future Terminator productions – without the rights to any of the existing series being included in the deal!
According to the Financial Times, Sony Picturesare currently the leading contender for the sale, with the remaining larger studios all also expressing an interest and many of the smaller houses (including Media Rights Capital and “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” studio Summit Entertainment) tracking the auction too.
Halcyon hit hard times back in Augustwhen investors began losing confidence in the company, »
- Craig Sharp
DVD Weekly Roundup – Monday 2nd November
1 November 2009 11:10 PM, PST
Got to admit I was a little under whelmed when watching this at the cinema. The main problem I found was the complete lack of pace and strangely for a Michael Mann film the editing was sub-par. I felt the narrative suffered a lot on the big screen. I was very disappointed because this was coming from one of the greatest filmmakers in America over the past decade.
Fortunately Public Enemies works much better on the small screen. The story of John Dillinger and the obsessive manhunt that took place is actually a very intimate one. The film has epic qualities but overall it really is just a story about one man that blurred the lines between criminal and hero.
Johnny Depp as always gives it his all; he captures the human being behind one of the most interesting figures in crime history. Christian Bale is well cast »
- Alex Wagner
Jennifer’s Body Reviewed
1 November 2009 10:53 PM, PST
“It would be easy to play Jennifer one dimensionally” said Megan Fox of her titular role, with the emphasis very much on tit, in Jennifer’s Body. For a humble reviewer, hoping to stow away a few groats from a seminal review which any editor in his right mind would open the cheque book for, the quote was much like Jennifer herself, a prick tease. It leaps from the page and says ‘go on, use me, you know you want to use me, weave me into the sordid little critique, screw the F-ing analysis, make me look like a silly girl, go on – yeaaaaah, I want you to, go on, write me! Write me! Write me! Ohhhhh yes!!!’
Y’know, something like that.
So with a shotgun pressed hard against a trout’s oily eye as it spasms at the bottom of a barrel, it’s fair to say that »
- Ed Whitfield
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