Tag: Joshua Blackman
[FILM: Feature] The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold Morgan Spurlock is POM Wonderful By Joshua Blackman Officially titled POM Wonderful presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Morgan Spurlock’s latest documentary is a deconstruction of product placement and advertising. Buzzwords like “brand integration” and “co-promotion” pop up on screen as Spurlock cold-calls dozens of companies in an effort to [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2011 under Arts, Brag 425 (August 15), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Joshua Blackman, Morgan Spurlock, POM wonderful, The Brag, The Greatest Movie ever Sold
[FILM: Review] Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Released August 4 **** Despite a mouthful of a title, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a bold reinvention of a 40-year old franchise. The seventh movie in the series (if you include Tim Burton’s questionable remake from 2001), Rise features cutting-edge CGI, Andy Serkis and [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 424 (August 8), Film Reviews.
Tags: Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, James Franco, John Lithgow, Joshua Blackman, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, Rupert Wyatt, The Brag, Tom Felton
[FILM: Review] The Beaver
The Beaver Released August 4 *** It’s inevitable that any review of Jodie Foster’s new film, The Beaver, will involve a discussion of its troubled star’s off screen antics. It’s actually almost impossible to consider the film without some consideration of the circumstances that informed it, given that it deals with a broken family and [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2011 under Arts, Brag 423 (August 1), Film Reviews.
Tags: Joshua Blackman, The Beaver, The Brag
[FILM: Review] Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Tucker & Dale vs Evil Opens July 28/ Dendy Newtown **** A romantic comedy. With chainsaws. That’s Tucker & Dale vs Evil – kind of: a gory and surprisingly sweet horror-comedy that’s could be described as the Shaun of the Dead of slasher pics. More irreverent than Edgar Wright’s dry dose of genius, it deliberately [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2011 under Arts, Brag 422 (July 25), Film Reviews.
Tags: Joshua Blackman, The Brag, Tucker & Dale vs Evil
[FILM: Feature] Hanna
Hanna Joe Wright cuts loose in a surreal action fairytale- with gingerbread By Joshua Blackman “It kind of started as a necessity really,” director Joe Wright tells me, down the line from London. We’re talking about Hanna, his first action film, but have somehow come upon the subject of his virtuoso five-minute tracking shot in [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2011 under Arts, Arts Feature, Brag 422 (July 25), Interviews-arts.
Tags: Hanna, Joe Wright, Joshua Blackman, The Brag