Archive for the 'Film' Category
September 02 2010
Dancing At The Movies
posted by Ana Samways at 9:30 amA 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 pmThe 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
Hilarious Bollywood Action Scene
posted by Ana Samways at 10:02 amFrom the 2009 award-winning Bollywood box office hit Magadheera.
August 18 2010
The Joaquin Phoenix Documentary
posted by Ana Samways at 9:59 amThe 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 pmInception — 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…

