Category Archives: Future Releases
March 27, 2012 Nuking From Orbit
by Thomas Pratchett In 1979, Ridley Scott made a film about a bunch of people who find an alien spaceship and discover that the long dormant life inside isn’t so dormant, and in fact wants to kill them. In 2011, Ridley Scott made a film about a bunch of people who find an alien spaceship [...]
Tags: alien, alien resurrection, alien3, aliens, Prometheus, ridley scott
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January 11, 2012 Preview of 2012 – the Best of the Rest
by Ron Swanson Over the last couple of days we’ve looked at some of the biggest blockbusters, and potential art-house hits that will go a long way towards defining 2012 as a cinematic year, but it would be silly to underestimate the importance of those films that sit somewhere between those two camps – be [...]
Tags: the Gangster Squad
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January 10, 2012 Preview of 2012 – Blockbusters
by Ron Swanson Any preview of 2012, (or at least one that wants to rouse the collective interest of ‘the Internet’, should probably start with Christopher Nolan’s the Dark Knight Rises. The UK’s cinematic summer slate will be more crowded than ever, with studios running away from two sporting events – the European Football Championships [...]
Tags: Brave, Ice Age 4, Inception, Jack the Giant Killer, Madagascar 3, Mirror Mirror, Prometheus, Red Riding Hood, Skyfall, Snow white and the Huntsman, Step Up 4, StreetDanceTwo, the Amazing Spider-Man, the Avengers, the Dark Knight Rises, the Hobbit:: an Unexpected Journey, The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists, Wrath of the Titans
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January 9, 2012 Preview of 2012 – Awards and Art House
by Ron Swanson Just before Christmas, the issue of film release scheduling was brought up as part of the ugly contretemps between New Yorker film reviewer David Denby and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo producer Scott Rudin. While Denby’s claim that he had to break an embargo he’d agreed to because of release schedule madness [...]
Tags: Carnage, Girls, Iron Lady, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Shame, The Artist, The Descendants, The Grandmasters, The Sweeney, The Woman in the Fifth, Tiny Furniture, War Horse, Welcome to the Punch, Winter's Bone
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September 5, 2011 Assignment: Terror
Uncle Frank creeps from behind the couch to let us know about the best and worst of FrightFest 2011 Horror is a broad church, and the FrightFest 2011 programme reflected that. 37 films, mostly British or American in origin but with a solid international selection, meant most people could reasonably expect to find something to [...]
Tags: FrightFest
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August 24, 2011 Cinema Week: The Future of Cinemas
Ron Swanson: Uncle Frank and I were approached to write this piece because we both work in the film exhibition industry, and have an immediate professional insight into the issues that are going to affect in what happens in your local multiplex or arthouse over the next five or ten years. We hope you’ll excuse [...]
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April 11, 2011 My Advent on Mars: Thoughts on Disney’s Upcoming John Carter Adaptation
by Uncle Frank 2012 will see the release of a film I’ve been anticipating for over a quarter of a century. Directed by Pixar regular Andrew Stanton, and with a screenplay by Michael Chabon, John Carter of Mars is not the first attempt to film Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian novels – it’s not even the [...]
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