“We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little… we went insane.” – Francis Ford Coppola. Production running waaaay longer than planned? Check. Budgets spiralling out of control? Check. Egos through the roof? Check. Director having his own personal breakdown? Check. Marlon Brando bloated and insufferable? Check. Martin Sheen mid-production heart attack? Check… In the great book of extremely troubled film productions (and there should be one) you’d have to expect a large and significantly [...]

This month I have been spending hours at a time in a dark room scrutinising various cinematical treats. These treats, in order of which I saw them, are as follows: The Hurt Locker In which… Jeremy Renner plays a crazy guy who enjoys putting his life in danger a lot when he diffuses bombs in Iraq. …And that is all I managed to take from this. Other than, bombs go boom! Which I already kind of knew. I’m a fan [...]

So, the teaser trailer for Avatar: the $200m film that will shatter the film world forever with its incredible high-tech 3D amazingness – was released yesterday, in glorious 2D. And it seems the overwhelming response is: ‘meh’. The film, set in the 22nd century, sees the human race invading a distant planet called Pandora to mine for valuable minerals. Or something. The only problem is, human’s can’t breathe or operate very well on the planet without large Transformer (GRR!) type [...]

For a while now – actually, for over 10 years – I’ve been responding to inexcusable and bluntly peculiar notions that Mr Quentin Tarantino is: ‘like… the best director in da world!11’ with a swift and graceful roundhouse kick to the face. He isn’t, in a way, shape or form, the greatest director in the world; that honour belong to Michael Bay someone else. But, he is, certainly, a very talented man, and with the release of Inglourious Basterds, his [...]

Adam Sandler has a lot to answer for. Little Nicky, for example. And The Waterboy. And Anger Management. And about half a dozen other movie monstrosities… But what’s most irritating about Adam Sandler is, from time-to-time, whenever he gets bored, he decides to make a good film. Punk Drunk Love, for example, is ace. As is Spanglish. The rule of thumb is: whenever he’s not playing the massive idiot who screams a lot, the film might be worth seeing. Thankfully, [...]