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Cinema is at the heart of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Basterds’ (The misspelling is intentional). To be more specific it’s the power of Cinema, more than anything else, which is at the forefront of this remarkable film. As the Poster and Trailers serve to remind us. The film is ostensibly about a team of Jewish-American Soldiers who lead an Apache resistance against the Nazi’s. Their goal

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Tone is a difficult thing to get right. In a lot of ways it's the crux of everything that's put to page or screen. For instance, you cannot make a slapstick comedy about the Holocaust (Lord knows I've tried) and at the same time you can't treat something like...oh I don't know 'Transformers' with po-faced seriousness. GI JOE sets up a tone of its own. Almost everyone involved (With one glaring

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In lieu of anything actually resembling content I decided to throw up links to some trailers you may not have seen. 1. Command PerformanceDolph Lundgren is a Rock Drummer who fights terrorists at a Rock Concert. That's all I need to say. Command Performance2. Hot Tub Time MachineJust watch it. Hot Tub Time Machine3. Ninja AssassinKorean star, the inexplicably titled 'Rain' stars in James

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"You're tearing me APART Lisa!" - Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) gives it all he's got. It’s hard to make something that’s misguided in almost every aspect of production. Usually there’s something that just goes ‘right’, a little nugget of production that just works, despite everyone’s best efforts to make sure that it doesn’t. I’ve seen two films to date that achieve this rare feat. One is the

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Nothing to add other than the title really. The Daily Mail, the paper read only by people who are worried that the end of the world will come from the hand of Immigrants. It's this kind of shitty journalism that led to the Video Nasties debacle in the 80's. "I've not seen this film, and I'm not going to, but I'm going to offer my opinion on this FILTH anyway". The sooner the Daily Mail is filed

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Here in Cardiff the wonderful Chapter Cinema hosted the ‘Bad Movie Club’. It’s an idea I wished I’d thought of, show renowned “Bad movies” and people will flock to enjoy them, ironically or otherwise. As a brief digression I think a Movie can be both bad and good at the same time. It’s certainly possible to enjoy a film despite recognizing precisely why other people find it so awful (The classic

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On many a social occasion, whether it be a party or just a casual gathering, I’ve been called into question for my love of ‘Murder She Wrote’. Yes you read that right. I have a love for the adventures of Jessica Fletcher and I’m simply not ashamed of it. I recognise why people wouldn’t like it, and I’m not really going to try and defend the show. But after many an occasion of trying to distill my

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Director: Jack Perez (Though the film calls him 'Ace Hannah'. I don't know what happened there, but a sign of things to come). Look at that poster right there. That my friends, is a poster that says "Look at me, do you KNOW how good a time you're going to have with me? I'm going to be the best time you've ever had". And like all advertising, it's a lie. Now when it comes to films I like my crap.

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Well today I thought I'd stop everything and review this little movie. Mega shark can wait.Well today I thought I'd stop everything and review this little movie. Mega shark can wait.Director: Sam RaimiThere's a few film makers that I look forward to hearing from. They've earned my trust enough in the past that I'll make a note of catching whatever they put out. Sam Raimi is one of them. It's true

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Ah...so here we are again. I keep doing you wrong and I keep coming back and apologising. This will be the last time I promise. I'm working up a few reviews at the moment (Including the momentous event we've all been waiting for - a viewing of 'Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus') and of course dear reader, you'll be privvy to all my thoughts. It's all coming very soon, it's going to be a weekend

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Greetings! It's been a while (A month so I'm reliably informed). Once again I promise to be more prolific in my musings. Anyway, onto today's subject, Crank 2.Directed by Neveldine/TaylorIf you're a Daily Mail reader then you'll know of the furore that accompanied the 'Grand Theft Auto' series of games. They were labeled as homophobic, racist, sexist, gratuitously violent and a sign of

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I love horror. It might not always be high-brow (And in fact it rarely is) but it's constantly entertaining. Even in its worst incarnations, there's occasionally something to enjoy. Whether it be laughable acting (Troll 2), dubious special effects (Troll 2) or just insane stories (You know where I'm going with this). But horror remains dear to me because on the whole it's just out to entertain.

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I'm going to spoil 'Watchmen' here, both the film and comic. So be warned. Adaptation. It's a tricky thing. Like almost every writer I've tried my hand at adaptation, mainly more as an exercise in writing than anything I was seriously pursuing. It serves as a good way to get back into the groove of writing as most of the work is laid out for you. Just work on adapting some pages until you're back

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Director: Robinson Devor"When someone dies there's nothing trivial about it – there's people that loved that individual and they'll never see them again, and that's a tragedy."I love animals. Aside from an incident with a Dog named 'Shaky' when I was younger, I've almost always got on with them. Sure I occasionally distrust the odd Dog, and used to cross the road when I saw one on the street, but

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Would you spend 2 hours in the company of someone you didn't like?It's not an unreasonable question. There's been times when you've HAD to spend time in the company of someone you'd rather not be around. Whether it's that really loud obnoxious "Friend of a friend" that tagged along with you on that night out, or just a potential in-law. But would you be willing to voluntarily spend time with

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Contrary to my belief that no one actually reads this thing I had an email from a user asking when I was going to do an update. Not an unreasonable request given that I did say I'd be regularly updating this thing. Well my friend you're going to get 2 updates today, take that!First off take a look at the "Little blog of inspiration" It's a fun little blog from a charming little writer.Secondly

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Due to one thing or another this wasn't quite the prolific blog I was expecting, but I'm sure business will pick up soon enough. Which leads me to today's subject.Getting started. How hard is it to start something? It shouldn't be. If you know what you're going to do then there's not any reason why you can't just do it. If you're going on a diet then what sense does it make to wait until Monday

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I wanted to go for something catchy, something that pops, something short. But of course all those have already been taken so we have this. It's not concise, but it is accurate. So that's something. This is my second blogging attempt, the first was a little experiment last year where in honour of Halloween I watched a Horror film a day throughout October and wrote about it. It's actually harder

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