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[Movie] Ninja Assassin

May 27th, 2010

There’s always something fun about going to see a film that has received and almost complete critical slamming. There have been one star reviews galore for Ninja Assassin, but I thought I’d go for it anyway. I mean, this is a film from James McTeigue. He. for the uneducated, was assistant director on the Matrix Trilogy, Star Wars Episode 2, and made his directorial debut in 2006 with one of the better film adaptations of a comic book, the unforgettable V for Vendetta.

With my hopes of a resurrection of true narrative cinema gold crushed before I even entered the cinema, and having seen the trailers, I sat ready to be bored to death and be bathed in CGI blood. The second part happened, the first however, didn’t go as I had expected.
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[Movie] The Wolfman

May 26th, 2010

Horror, horror, horror. I am a bit of a horror film fan, and recently I seem to be reviewing quite a few of them. Clearly this is the year to be scared by my blog, and not just for the poor writing. Today shall be no different, bad writing, and a horror movie. This time it is a remake of sorts of the 1940s film The Wolf Man, this is The Wolfman.

The space in the title isn’t the only change here. Whilst the original was much more of an internal conflict, a man battling to come to terms with his new existence as a werewolf, this film is much more of an external battle. The on-screen transformation is also seen much earlier in the film this time round, be that because they can with technology, or to hold the attention of a modern audience is up for debate.

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[Movie] Kick-Ass

March 27th, 2010

It’s getting harder and harder to be surprised by a good comic book movie. For every Spider-Man 3 and Wolverine Origins we have a Watchmen and a 300. Ghost Rider was bad, but we got Sin City. Fantastic Four? Wanted? Tim Burton’s Batman? I will show you… no, I’ve run out of ideas… But the point is we are getting more and more good comic adaptations, and now we have Kick-Ass.

You can’t really talk about a comic adaptation without first mentioning the comic, and let’s be honest, as a comic guy as well as a film guy I’m not going to pass up the chance to say quite how much I love Mark Miller and Kick-Ass. I’m not a massive fan of many super-hero comics now. Batman seems to have gone down hill since Batman R.I.P., The Green Lantern isn’t bad but I’ve kind of drifted away from it, I was never really in to Superman or Spider-man and the less said about the X-Men and Wolverine the better. I do, however, love Walking Dead, I’m catching Chew as it comes out in TPB form and doing the same with The Boys. I’ve been picking up the new Green Hornet run that’s started with Kevin Smith and Matt Wagner, and when I saw Mark Miller’s name on the cover of something called “Kick-Ass” I thought I owed Mark a chance to show me something great. And he did.

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[DVD] Coraline

March 20th, 2010

I’m not a big fan of the cinema version of 3D films, even though we have progressed from red/blue glasses to the sunglasses look, but there is, of course, another problem. When a film leaves the cinema that’s not the end, we have the DVD release, that brings a new problem in. How do you give someone, at home, the cinema experience of 3D.

Coraline Film Poster

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[Movie] Ponyo

March 7th, 2010

OK, so I may have kinda forgotten to write this post earlier in the week, but it’s here now so quit yer whining. The film this week is the latest feature from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki. I am talking about Ponyo, released in Japan in 2008 and America last year, but only just making its entry onto UK screens.

Ponyo is the new film to come out of Studio Ghibli, with Disney handling the English dub and distribution, fitting as Miyazai has said that the inspiration for this film came from The Little Mermaid. It’s the story of a young boy who lives high on a hill with his mum and his dad is a sailer. One day he finds a goldfish in a bottle down by the ocean, and decided to take it home. As he looks at it he thinks it looks more and more like a little girl. She’s the daughter of a magical wizard of the sea and a goddess. She decides she wants to be a human girl and runs away.