2011 was a fantastic year for Australian films that included ‘Red Dog’, ‘Burning Man’, ‘the Hunter’ and despite the fact it divided audiences, ‘Snowtown’ still made a significant impact. Four steps forward and now with the release of ‘A Few Best Men’, one large step back.
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Some people say that your high school years are the best years of your life. For a small group of popular kids that may be true and for those people the best years of their lives are also the rest of their lives. ‘Young Adult’ is a character study of what happens to high school stereotypes when they grow up, and it’s not pretty.
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The next Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up is set for released in May called ‘Dark Shadows’. We’re getting sick of the Depp/Burton films especially after the dire ‘Alice in Wonderland’.
‘Dark Shadows’ show promise and is based on the television series from the 60s. With the release getting close there is still no trailer, but a bunch of new images have appeared so we’re getting close to seeing footage from the film.
A new image shows Depp’s character, the vampire Barnabus Collins, sporting what can be best described as a home-haircut.
Hit the jump to check it out.
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What happens when aliens attack Earth and only a group of douchebags survive? ‘The Darkest Hour’ explores this notion, and becomes a rare piece of cinema in the process. It’s one of the only alien invasion films where you actually cheers for the aliens.
Sean (Emile Hirsh) and Ben (Max Minghella) are two web developers visiting Moscow in Russia for business when mysterious objects start falling from the sky and incinerating the locals.
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We don’t know how we missed this one (double-uppercut) but the LA Times got their hands on a new image from ‘Prometheus’.
It features Noomi Rapace standing in a corridor that looks like the hallway at H.R Giger’s house. There are a couple of familiar looking characters on the left hand side for ‘Alien’ fans to geek out over.
Hit the jump to check it out.
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Yesterday thanks to Empire we got our hands on a few concept posters for ‘Drive’ and today the team at Collider have the poster Gods smiling on them today.
‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ is a great film that’s yet to be released in America. A new poster for the film has appeared that perfectly captures the vibe of the film.
Check it out after the jump.
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Modern movie posters are terrible. They often comprise of an actor’s fat head badly photo-shopped over the top of the film’s title that’s barely visible.
A good movie poster should get you excited about a film while perfectly capturing the tone of the film.
Our favourite film of 2011 was ‘Drive’ and Empire Magazine in the UK has got their hands on alternative one-sheets that didn’t make it into the corridors of cinemas.
The brains behind the poster campaign for ‘Drive’, Rich Andrews, sat down with the team at Empire to talk through early design concepts and how they chose the final designs.
Check a few of them out after the jump.
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The big final payoff is everything. What’s the point of covering yourself in detergent to zip down a slip-n’ slide, unless you’re going to make a big splash in the pool at the end? ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ isn’t worth lathering up for because there is no big slash pool of glory at the end, and it’s a long bloody slip-n’ slide.
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