Archive for the 'Film' Category

September 02 2010

Dancing At The Movies

posted by Ana Samways at 9:30 am

A brilliant montage of dance scenes from 40 movies. Footloose was one of the very first movies I saw at age 14 (there was no movie theatre in Balclutha). It was on a school trip to Dunedin to the bread factory and I feel deeply in teenage love with Kevin Bacon. (Shame about Swayze and the fags)…

September 01 2010

The Expendables

posted by Steven Shaw at 2:45 pm

The Expendables

The Expendables Directed by Sylvester Stallone. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews, Eric Roberts, Dolph Lundgren, Steve Austin, Randy Couture

How we laughed. I’m not a huge fan of Sly Stallone, half the time I can’t understand his lines and I’m pretty sure I’m not alone there. That said, he’s relatively articulate in this shit-kicker of an action film about a crack team of mercenaries.

The Expendables — with a name like that it’s as if they’re willing the mission to fail — are played by Stallone, Jason (The Transporter) Statham and a few others including…

September 01 2010

From the 2009 award-winning Bollywood box office hit Magadheera.

August 18 2010

The trailer for the Casey Affleck-directed I’m Still Here: The Lost Years of Joaquin Phoenix has landed. Remember Phoenix announced he was giving up acting to take up rap? He also grew a beard and behaved crazy on Letterman. Affleck claims it’s for real but this still sounds like an elaborate Andy Kaufman/ Bruno type prank, rather than a serious descent into madness driven by the pressures of fame…

Watch after the jump…

July 26 2010

Inception

posted by Steven Shaw at 4:19 pm

Inception — Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine.

Navigation of dreams — yours or the dreams of others — is the premise behind Christopher Nolan’s new thriller. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Dom Cobb, an independent contractor who surfs the dreams of others…