Written by Matilda Mornane. Betrayals can make or break a film. They can be expected, awful, surprising and heartbreaking, but they are always just a little bit exciting. Here’s my list of Top Ten Movie Betrayals. The list includes (MAJOR) spoilers, so don’t read on if you haven’t seen any of the films listed below. …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Woody Allen just won’t stop will he? No complaints here. The man has been releasing a film almost every year since he “re-mixed” the Japanese action film International Secret Police: Key of Keys for his debut What’s Up, Tiger Lily? Mostly working within his own creative parameters, Allen’s substantial resume doesn’t …
Written by Jessica Hanlon. It takes a brave man to get up in front of a room of TV executives and tell them, “It’s the creatives, stupid!” Well, no one can tell Kevin Spacey he isn’t brave. At the Edinburgh TV Festival last week, Kevin Spacey used his honour as the James McTaggert Guest Speaker …
Written by Zac Platt. Last week Deadline posted an article explaining the findings of a paper published by European researchers examining the effects that last year’s shutdown of file hosting service ‘Megaupload’ has had on box office revenues. The study concludes that removing this illegal distributor mostly benefits the blockbusters such as The Avengers or …
Written by Rosie Taylor. If you thoroughly enjoy unrealistic cinematic disasters, White House Down is a high ten. Heart-throb of the minute Channing Tatum, not one to surprise, plays yet another gunslinger in the form of an aspiring secret service agent John Cale. After failing to meet the requirements of presidential protection he (spitefully?) takes it …
10. Some Like It Hot (1959) Joe and Jerry The pairing of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon couldn’t have been more perfect in this film. I seriously take my hat off to the casting director. The two are outstanding as ordinary musicians turned girl band members fleeing from unforgiving gangsters. The two get themselves in …
Written by Siân Darling. Margaret (2011), released seven years after being shot in New York, is Kenneth Lonergan’s anticipated second directing release following his celebrated and Oscar-nominated, You Can Count on Me (2000). The delayed release was caused by Lonergan’s resistance to the insistence of Fox Searchlight, that it must run under 150 minutes. After …
Written by Jessica Hanlon. Summer television is well-known amongst most television execs as the place shows either go to burn off, die or light a flagging audience’s fire while their primetime heroes take a well-deserved break. Summer television however, can be just as addictive ““ if not more so ““ if you look in the …
There’s an exchange deep into the second act of this home-invasion horror/thriller that encapsulates perfectly the entire You’re Next experience. Our Australian heroine Erin (Sharni Vinson) has finally taken charge and sets about instructing her fellow survivors on what must be done to survive this frightening onslaught. She approaches gothic archetype “Zee” (Wendy Glenn) and …
