Category Archives: Film

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Yet another comic book-based movie, this time with a man in chaps rather than tights.  Josh Brolin is the titular cowboy/bounty hunter Hex, with Megan Fox playing a hooker with (you won’t believe this) a heart of gold.

They’re up against John Malkovich as a Confederate General who wants to re-start the American Civil War. It went back for more than a few re-shoots to ‘expand’ on Fox’s character. That’s never a good thing.

Release Date (Ireland): This Friday, September 3.

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The sort of trailer I like – starts off looking like a dull paint-by-numbers romcom and turns into something more akin to Dark City.  Based on a Philip K. Dick story.

I’m expecting paranoia and nothing being what it seems.  Matt Damon isn’t even putting me off.

Release Date (Ireland): Spring 2011

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127 Hours? Could Danny Boyle be revisiting the zombie genre with a prequel to 28 Days Later? No such luck. This is a true story about climber Aron Ralston (James Franco) and what happened when he fell into an interesting rock formation/metaphor

Release Date (UK): 28 October 2010

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Relax, it’s only a movie.

And a pretty good one at that.

Sensation is directed by Tom Hall and stars our pal Domhnall Gleeson.

Part of the ‘Irish Movies Are Getting Better’ season.

Unlikely poster blurb: ‘Risky Business’, Tipperary-style.

More here.

(Via Fintan)

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Kodak test out their new-fangled colour film back in 1922, 13 years before the first-ever full-colour feature and 17 years before the Wizard of Oz.

Featuring actresses of the day, Mae Murray, Hope Hampton and Mary Eaton from the Zeigfield Follies.

Classy beyond words.

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Red Dawn in Australia!  In what seems like national paranoia transferred to film, a group of Australian teenagers become insurgents against an unnamed (but probably Chinese or Russian) invasion force.

There’ll be hugs and learning on top of the usual gung-ho bravado once the teens turn into dead-eyed killers.

Release Date (Ireland): No Information Available.