Archive for the ‘film’ Category

 

Poor Stephen Dorff

June 16th, 2010Posted by katiesol

It has come to my attention today that everyone hates Stephen Dorff.
What is up with that?
He has many fine films to his name, including Blade (actually, I didn’t like Blade all that much) and, er, that Britney Spears video (hey, it was emotional! She tried to kill herself in the bath! Guys!). Ok, actually he [...]

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Wild things

May 10th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Kate super loved Where The Wild Things Are, and now that it’s out on DVD and BluRay she has a good reason to gush about it and berate you for not feeling the same way.

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Inception

May 9th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Christopher Nolan’s new movie is going to be spiggin’ awesome.

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All the DVDs I’ve never watched

May 8th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Here are all the DVDs that are in my flat that have been bought, borrowed, given or otherwise acquired and never actually watched. Jeez.

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The Back-Up Plan

May 5th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Kate goes to see a film and it offends her innate feminist instincts, which she then reveals at great length.

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Kick-Ass – and why Roger Ebert has this one all wrong

April 15th, 2010Posted by katiesol

CONTAINS SPOILERS – Well known and generally respected American film critic Roger Ebert gave Kick-Ass a paltry one-star for all the wrong reasons. Barely known and not at all respected nobody Kate Solomon explains why he shouldn’t have done that: why should one fictional young girl be required to feel remorse when we readily accept that hundreds of fictional adults don’t?

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Films I’m falling over myself to see

March 3rd, 2010Posted by katiesol

I’m on a cinema diet. It’s budget-imposed and is particularly difficult as it has come at a time when there’s a ridiculous number of films I’d love to see.
A Single Man – partly because it gives me hope that one day, when I’m wealthy and successful for something else entirely, I’ll be able to turn [...]

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What if Wes Anderson ‘rebooted’ Spiderman?

February 4th, 2010Posted by katiesol

So somebody somewhere woke up to the fact that Tobey Maguire is awful and the entire Spiderman franchise has been ruined by his sloppy face and rubbish acting. In the absence of a time machine to go back and wipe the whole unfortunate incident out, they’re just giving it another go by ‘rebooting’ the franchise. [...]

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Secret photos of famous people

February 4th, 2010Posted by katiesol

There are 125 rare, unlikely and occasionally brilliant photos of the crazy-famous here. Here are five that make me feel like it’s ok just to be a normal person.

Marilyn Monroe and JFK share a moment – I feel so sad for Marilyn Monroe every time I think about their doomed affair. Just goes to show [...]

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Exit through the gift shop

January 23rd, 2010Posted by katiesol

Hey, Banksy made a film! Called Exit Through the Gift Shop, he describes it as “the story of how one man set out to film the unfilmable – and failed… It’s a film about a man who tried to make a film about me. Everything in it is true, especially the bits where we [...]

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