The Adventures of Tin Tin - With more animation than you can shake a stick at.

And with Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson Directing / Producing, a stellar voice cast and a huge sexy budget to boot.

Need I say more.

This film has spent almost 2 years in post production and looks the bollocks.

Released over Xmas this year. 

Trailer, find it here - http://www.tintin.com/

New International Poster:

Movie 'Paranormal Activity 3' - Have you even seen Paranormal Activity 1 or 2??

Coz I haven't.

And by the look of this trailor it's one of those pics that will have you excusing yourself to the toilet every now and again just coz you can't stand to watch all the various things popping out at ya.

So if that's your thing.

Trailor:

https://rcpt.yousendit.com/1176372217/67fbf7127b6c1d59ae9f7eedd0f3920e 

This frightens it's way onto Aussie screens October 20th.

Chalet Girl - 'It's James Bond meets Debbie Does Dallas'

Well I'd like to think so anyway.

But judging from the trailor sadly not I'm afraid lovely readers.

What we have here is Brisitsh / American comedy of sorts, that has potential to be quite funny.

Or not.

Any how, the yarn is as follow:

'High society heart throb Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) plays Jonny, the love interest for the less than refined Kim (Felicity Jones). Kim, professional skateboarder, turned fast food assistant, turned Chalet Girl experiences the benefits and pitfalls of being immersed in a luxurious culture. Using snowboarding as her anchor in this conflicting environment, Kim has to overcome some pretty big fears in order to realize her potential.' 

The two Bills (Nighy & Baily) randomly appear in this flick, so they must have both read the script and thought it was pretty good I'm guessing.

 Or not. 

You decide though!

Check out the trailer:

http://www.facebook.com/ChaletGirlAU

This lands on Australian Screens September 1st.

Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt.2 - A Double 'Spell Pounding' Movie Review

We have two reviews on the HP movie today (blimey I hear you cry!) – the 1st review will be by yours truly & then followed on by our guest reviewer Peter Lewis. 

Welcome Mr Lewis!

  

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Danny Review

Okay! I think I’m a little bit over the whole Harry Potter thing now I’ve decided. And I’m pretty certain they shouldn’t make anymore. Just in the nick of time really.

I’ve read the reviews & nattered with some friends (who’d already seen this epic final outing) & the overall response has been really good. But I must admit I came out thinking “I just don’t care anymore" & "The sweet, sweet smell of beer is waving me this way!" 

Anyway, we took the option to go to see HP in 3D, Saturday night, despite hearing that it really doesn’t seem to matter - and I’ll be honest it really doesn’t. A few dragons and wands leap out at you every now and again, nothing to blow your Potter load over.

The story centres on Harry, Ron & Hermoine hunting down the final horcruxes (the parts of Voldemort’s soul) & so we eventually arrive at the battle of Hogwarts & the showdown between Harry & Voldemort.

To its credit and after the previous 2 films (which fell pretty bloody flat in my opinion) the film moves at a lightening pace, with some stellar action set pieces and solid performances from our lead cast. I really do think Mr Radcliffe (Harry) is a pretty good actor and can tread the boards of my tiny flat any time!

Even if you haven’t read the book The Deathly Hallows (which I haven’t), there is nothing all that surprising in the story here. Harry Potter fans will obviously devour this hole, but if you’ve never seen the previous flicks or read the books (before this one) you won’t have the foggiest clue what’s going on - so I wouldn’t recommend it.

But after a decade of Harry Potters I must admit I did feel a rather small lump form as this films final curtain began to close. So here's cheers for the memories Harry!

Now bugger off.

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Pete's Review

Hello and welcome to a special guest edition of the Danny Holland special. I’m Peter and a friend/colleague of Danny, and he’s given me ‘guest blogger’ status for the day so I can enter a film review on to his site.

Before starting, I was thinking what style/approach I should take – a worldly film connoisseur, a creative critique, an ‘I would have done this better by’ snob or maybe just an ignorant who mainly goes to the cinema for the pick n mix. Me being a big Harry Potter fan with an even bigger sweet tooth, I thought a mixture of the latter two probably the most apt.

Before I start on Harry And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, the 8^th and final Harry Potter film, but doubtfully the end of a multi-billion dollar license, I just need to get this out the way so it doesn’t become a running theme – Hermione/ Emma Watson is amazing. Fit. Stunning. There’s a scene early on where they don’t zip her top up all the way and... well, you get the picture. Oh, and it’s in 3D... ok, no more.

Unless you’re a hobbit or a desert farmer whose being flying around the galaxy recently, I don’t think I need to spend time discussing the plot and the basic concept. In terms of promise then it delivers perfectly on the book with all the cinematic magic that is accustomed too by today’s audience. It also continues to deliver on the wooden acting that has been prevalent in the previous films but when hiring 11yo kids for a 10 year programme it’s always going to be a risk. But then we’ve gladly forgiven them the poor narrative display or lack of depth as we took the journey with them over the last few years. They were our wizard heroes battling more than just hormones and some tricky Latin.

But can we really forgive the producers and Directors for some bizarre conceptual plots. For all that this film visually delivers it also fails with any sense. Without spoiling too much, Harry defeats the baddest wizard ever, a few kids (literally) fight off 20,000 marauding wizards and some trolls that would scare Gandalf and at the end there’s not even a cheer or a “well done”. Maybe they all realised that the film was drawing to an end too and that there would be no more instalments. Maybe they were too preoccupied with money and credit card problems after the recession. Maybe they were just tired but the deflated ending sort or deflated the whole 8 films for me. There was no gravity of what they had done, no sense of the 18hour series marathon that this culminated. The defenders took up their positions with the gaiety of a trip to the fairground. Sure it was spectacular and I wanted to like it but, well, too much just irked me. Some I can forgive, some I can’t. Oh well, I’ll always have the books.       

Captain America: The First Avenger (A rather large melting pot of class action)

So Captain America has finally decided to appear on our movie screens!

Exciting stuff…

Starring Chris Evans (Fantastic Four) the movie focuses on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.  As Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull (Hugo Weaving.)

I think from what I can gather from the trailer, what you see is what you get - But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. If the same studio can produce something as good as ‘Iron Man’ then I’m sure a large portion of this film will thoroughly satisfy & entertain all those popcorn munching action junkies (which includes yours truly).

And not to mention ladies (& gents that are into that sort of thing), Chris has done a small amount of working out for this film & ‘blown up’ somewhat.

Which should also draw some attention from fans and fitness freaks alike!

Check out the trailer though folks:

http://captainamerica.marvel.com/

And a featurette named ‘Behind the Shield’:

 http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/167621-chris-evans-on-captain-americas-shield

This juicy morsel is released July 28^th