Tag Archives: Total Film

Patema Inverted review

Kirsten Dunst’s 2012 mirror-world movie Upside Down was slammed in the US, but Yasuhiro Yoshiura’s anime fable makes nifty work of a similar world-inverted motif. At heart it’s a coming-of-ager about two teens and their oppressive elders, with the clever spin that youngsters Age and Patema occupy alternaworlds with opposing …

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Jessica Chastain to play Marilyn Monroe in new biopic

Jessica Chastain could be about to step into the shoes of a silver screen icon, with The Wrap reporting that she is in discussions to play Marilyn Monroe in a new biopic. According to the report, Chastain is nearing a deal to star in Blonde , Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of …

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30 Most Evil Movie Computers

SID 6.7 – Virtuosity (1995) The Evil Computer : A virtual reality serial killer, SID 6.7 (Russell Crowe) is being targeted by Lt Parner Barners (Denzel Washington). Later, of course, he transforms into a regenerating android, which means he has even more power than before. But that also makes him …

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Rogue will appear in X-Men: Days Of Future Past after all

Rogue fans rejoice, as Vulture has confirmed that the energy-absorbing mutant has not been cut from X-Men: Days Of Future Past after all. Anna Paquin was always going to be a minor player in the new film, but it had seemed that she would be missing altogether when Bryan Singer …

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Michael Bay planning to reboot Friday 13th for a second time

When is a reboot not a reboot? When it’s a re-reboot of course! And that’s exactly what Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes is planning for the Friday 13th franchise… Having acquired the rights to the franchise back in 2009, Bay rebooted the series for a first time, hiring Marcus …

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The Sea review

Adapted for the screen by the author, John Banville’s Booker Prize winning novel becomes a heavy, sometimes gruelling meditation on memory and grief. Historian Max (Ciarán Hinds) seeks to recover from the death of his wife by returning to the Irish seaside location of a dark childhood tragedy. We live …

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