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2009 Year of the Remakes - WTF happened to being original?

By Hunter • Nov 22nd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

If you browse around many blogs and movie news sites, you will notice that one of the biggest topics is the fact that Hollywood seems to be churning out remakes by the dozen, in some money grabbing frenzy.
WHY?
I mean WTF… what happened to original ideas and concepts? I grew up on films like LA Confidential, [...]



Ridley Scott talks Body of Lies

By Hunter • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Lead Story

I just found this Ridley Scott interview on the Empire magazine website. He goes into detail about his new spy thriller ‘Body of Lies’. This is a film I am really looking forward to, in my opinion since films like ‘Blood Diamond’ and ‘The Departed’, Leonardo Di Caprio has really shown the world what a [...]



Ghost Town Review - A nice message for miserable shits.

By Hunter • Nov 17th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Movie Reviews

I like Ricky Gervais and when I heard he was making a new comedy film I got rather excited - it’s quite nice to think that a British comedian can break into Hollywood and hold his own, despite not necesarily fitting into stereotype image of a Hollywood actor.
The plot foccuses on Bertram Pincus (Gervais), a [...]