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| February 11, 2012 |
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I’ve often talked about how our taste in movies is a fluid thing, morphing and changing accord … |
| January 29, 2012 |
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I know I’ve mentioned it in a lot of reviews, but lately I’ve developed a love for movie … |
| January 22, 2012 |
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There can be a very strong self-fulfilling prophecy phenomenon in the movie industry. Fans among the … |
| January 15, 2012 |
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Welcome to 2012, the year of The Amazing Spider Man, The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers and more ex … |
| December 30, 2011 |
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Why do we have so many movies about leaving home to travel? Never thought we did? Read on… It& … |
| December 19, 2011 |
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I’d thought I’d be a little bit lighthearted this week and celebrate one or two of the m … |
| December 11, 2011 |
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I reviewed a 1989 film called Slipstream the other day, notable for no reason other than because it … |
| December 4, 2011 |
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Like most film fans I see a lot of movies the way they were meant to be seen, on a cinema screen. Be … |
| November 13, 2011 |
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Here’s a question I never thought I’d ask. Is Steven Spielberg past it? It used to be th … |
| November 6, 2011 |
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What do we want to see on movie screens? Something we’ve never seen before. And for movies to … |
| October 31, 2011 |
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The human species has a long history of anthropomorphising, and nowhere can you see our tendency to … |
| October 11, 2011 |
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Money’s a funny thing in Hollywood. Mustangs and Maseratis line the streets and up in the hill … |
| October 3, 2011 |
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A very smart Australian feminist named Emily Maguire said a few years ago that despite women enterin … |
| September 25, 2011 |
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You haven’t been able to throw a rock over the last six months and not hit a story online abou … |
| September 18, 2011 |
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I was very interested this week to see the critical reaction to Rod Lurie’s remake of Straw Do … |
| September 4, 2011 |
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Along with the renaissance of R rated comedies (soon to be a flood if Hollywood follows its usual s. … |
| August 28, 2011 |
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So another movie blockbuster season is behind us, and what did we learn this year? Two things if you … |
| August 14, 2011 |
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Well, I sure got Rise of the Planet of the Apes wrong. With the love of most critics worldwide it … |
| August 7, 2011 |
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What other kind of business venture returns a US$125 million investment eight times over in a matter … |
| July 31, 2011 |
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What’s the definitive version of any entertainment property, world or character? Is it the fir … |
| July 24, 2011 |
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A bit of Hollywood trivia first. Have you ever noticed how when a movie title’s a question (li … |
| July 3, 2011 |
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This is only partly related to film because it concerns the biggest website activity since Kim Kardi … |
| June 26, 2011 |
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I’m writing about Tree of Life again this week as it’s the movie I’ve looked forwa … |
| June 20, 2011 |
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How many films do you walk out of thinking there were a few funny lines and a couple of decent actio … |
| June 13, 2011 |
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It’s French artist Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau with which we equate the words ‘ … |
| May 15, 2011 |
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I’ve been a bit out of the loop lately so don’t have a real lot to talk about this week, … |
| May 3, 2011 |
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A very interesting story emerged through the Hollywood Reporter this week, when producer and exec Jo … |
| April 25, 2011 |
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Here we are again in blockbuster season, the time of year the studios roll out the $150m licensing d … |
| April 18, 2011 |
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It’s not like superhero movies have finally petered out. A rigourous scientific enquiry (how s … |
| April 11, 2011 |
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There’s a film you’re going to hear a lot about some time in the future (next year in fa … |
| April 3, 2011 |
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Hollywood has a long history of chewing up and spitting out hot new auteurs. For every Tarantino (wh … |
| March 27, 2011 |
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Emily Browning was trash talking the MPAA this week for restricting her sex scene with Jon Hamm in S … |
| March 20, 2011 |
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The biggest news out of tinsletown this week is the casting of Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Dark Knig … |
| March 13, 2011 |
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Welcome back – after a very long absence on our part – to the Filmism.net dispatch. While we red … |
| August 3, 2010 |
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Oh my god oh my god oh my god. I wasn’t terribly gripped by the news that Stephen (Blade, The … |
| July 25, 2010 |
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You might have wondered what’s happened to Wesley Snipes in the last few years since the Blade … |
| July 17, 2010 |
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Another bumper edition of Filmism news this week, starting with the revelation-that’s-really-n … |
| July 4, 2010 |
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The new design for Wonder Woman has ignited the blogosphere and the comic introducing her has sold o … |
| June 27, 2010 |
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MGM’s financial woes resulted in a major casualty recently, with Guillermo Del Toro bowing out … |
| May 30, 2010 |
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After a long absence from the screen Orlando Bloom is set to return in the 3D Three Musketeers reboo … |
| May 23, 2010 |
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I know horror remakes are still in vogue, but when they attract names like Toni Collette and Colin F … |
| May 9, 2010 |
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I don’t often talk about my musical tastes in this newsletter, but if you know me you’ll … |
| May 2, 2010 |
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The most interesting news about the Batman franchise this week isn’t that a release date’ … |
| April 26, 2010 |
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One of the most exciting, original and undervalued filmmakers alive – kiwi Andrew Niccol – has a … |
| April 11, 2010 |
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Disney aren’t half confident about the success of their long-awaited sequel Tron: Legacy ̵ … |
| April 4, 2010 |
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We’ve talked about the James Cameron-produced Fantastic Voyage remake a few times before. Last … |
| March 29, 2010 |
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We said goodbye to Robert Culp this week. Like most 70s children I only knew him as Bill Maxwell, Ra … |
| March 21, 2010 |
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It’s a very sad goodbye to veteran actor Peter Graves this week. Most know him from his seriou … |
| March 15, 2010 |
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Oodles of news this week about movies in the works. Clint Eastwood’s swooping close to a biopi … |
| March 7, 2010 |
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First, a correction. I mistakenly told you last time that the new Robert De Niro film Everybody̵ … |
| March 4, 2010 |
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They say a Speedy Gonzales movie has been floating around the pre-production ether in Hollywood for … |
| February 22, 2010 |
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I love Steven Soderbergh and 2008 and 2009 were his years to show us what he could do (ie anything) … |
| February 14, 2010 |
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A massive edition of Filmism.net news this week, partly because you didn’t hear from us last w … |
| February 1, 2010 |
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Sam Worthington will be in the best position his career’s ever likely to see right now as Avat … |
| January 24, 2010 |
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The big superhero news is that after the script wrangling I reported last time, Spider Man 4 is bein … |
| January 10, 2010 |
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So early in the new year and we have our fourth ever billion dollar movie, with a certain Mr Cameron … |
| January 3, 2010 |
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I mentioned a few weeks back that the Avatar phenomenon sweeping the world might drop off considerab … |
| December 28, 2009 |
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For the first time ever, the US domestic box office is set to top $10 billion. No more whining about … |
| December 21, 2009 |
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You’re probably already read a swag of Avatar news, like how it’s taken US$70m in the US … |
| December 14, 2009 |
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Summit Entertainment, currently swimming in money and Robert Pattinson fanmail from that little vamp … |
| December 6, 2009 |
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There was a very cool straight-to-video movie some years back called Arena, about an interstellar bo … |
| November 22, 2009 |
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I was interested in an upcoming movie starring Jake Gyllenhall called Source Code. it sounds geeky, … |
| November 8, 2009 |
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France is famous for its history of industrial solidarity, but I’ve never seen it affect movie … |
| November 1, 2009 |
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There’s an Asian invasion coming! On the heels of Mao Zedong apologist epic The Founding of a … |
| October 19, 2009 |
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I saw the Bad Lieutenant remake trailer through the week and urge you to have a look. While it doesn … |
| October 12, 2009 |
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I suppose a National Lampoon’s Vacation sequel was inevitable in the current climate, but I do … |
| October 5, 2009 |
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So Roman Polanski finally looks like facing the music after Zurich officials snatched him for a deca … |
| September 27, 2009 |
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There’s no stopping stripper-turned screenwriter Diablo Cody, who’s now doing the adapta … |
| September 21, 2009 |
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We said goodbye to Patrick Swayze this week. I’m one of the five people worlwide who’ve … |
| September 14, 2009 |
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I love the Men Who Stare at Goats Trailer, it looks like another cracker of a Clooney-esque satire i … |
| August 31, 2009 |
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Thanks to the Rudd government and Screen Australia’s largesse in offering producers 40 percent … |
| August 17, 2009 |
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s juggernaut isn’t over yet – next he’ll be playing a Eurovisi … |
| August 9, 2009 |
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We said goodbye to John Hughes this week, the man who ended up (by all accounts) a bit like namesake … |
| July 20, 2009 |
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has become the biggest opener in Chinese history, outstripping T … |
| July 14, 2009 |
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I’ve spoken before about how old it makes me feel now they’re finally remaking films fro … |
| June 22, 2009 |
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In big news for Australian fiction fans Stuart Beattie, the Aussie screenwriter who conquered Hollyw … |
| May 3, 2009 |
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Big studio remakes of The Creature From the Black Lagoon and Flash Gordon don’t bode well with … |
| April 13, 2009 |
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One of the most enduring marketing questions a filmmaker or studio must grapple with is ‘how m … |
| March 14, 2009 |
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In casting news, Cate Blanchett has joined the cast of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood movie, with R … |
| March 3, 2009 |
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Talk about coming full circle. The big scale film based on the recent Battlestar Galactica TV series … |
| February 8, 2009 |
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From the ‘you’re a film star, not a doctor curing cancer’ front lines comes Christ … |
| January 15, 2009 |
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A strange thing happened the other night. In the last few hours of sleep I had a very vivid dream th … |
| December 15, 2008 |
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I wondered if there might end up being a legal scrap between Sony and Nickelodeon, who both have fil … |
| December 1, 2008 |
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How one makes a movie out of a board game is anyone’s guess. Some, sure – Payday as an urban … |
| November 10, 2008 |
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It’s a big and sad goodbye to my favourite author, Michael Crichton, who died last week. Crich … |
| October 27, 2008 |
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When the Lucas and Henson empires came together in the early eighties to extend their alliance beyon … |
| October 13, 2008 |
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I never thought the day would come when I’d groan at the news of another Indiana Jones film, b … |
| October 6, 2008 |
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Exciting news as it seems Martin Scorsese is getting together again with his former favourite muse ( … |
| September 29, 2008 |
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If ever there was a project tailor made for Tim Burton, the 2010 big budget version of Alice in Wond … |
| September 15, 2008 |
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It seems everyone involved with the bloated, overstuffed Chinese banquet that was Spider-Man 3 has f … |
| August 25, 2008 |
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A shout out to Robert Downey Jr in this edition. It seemed only a couple of years ago he was tabloid … |
| August 18, 2008 |
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Valé Bernie Mac, who really impressed in some distinctive roles – even in some unimpressive movie … |
| June 30, 2008 |
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In the funniest remake news I’ve heard all year, some bozo is redoing the banned exploitation … |
| June 9, 2008 |
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I didn’t hear good things about George A Romero’s last Dead film, Diary of the Dead. Asi … |
| May 19, 2008 |
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Remake news ahoy – normally I’m not too interested except that announcements have come down … |
| May 12, 2008 |
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When the indie movie scene started taking bites out of the credibility of the Hollywood studios, the … |
| May 5, 2008 |
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Apparently Mike Myers’ role in The Love Guru made him pine for another character many people c … |
| April 28, 2008 |
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Not a lot of news that’s grabbed my attention recently, but the next X Files movie (is anyone … |
| March 31, 2008 |
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I thought the news that Pixar is doing a film about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was interestin … |
| March 10, 2008 |
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I saw Rambo through the week and right before it was the new Indiana Jones trailer. What struck me w … |