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Satan doesn’t make film trailers. But if he did…

Has any one else, like me, suffered psychological injury as a result of the trailer for the film version of hen night-friendly Abba-based musical shit-fest Mamma Mia!? There’s no warning before it comes on. This is despite the inclusion of a mysteriously orange Meryl Streep running round in dungarees and bursting into song; at which point I suffered a sudden ache behind my eyes and everything went [...]

Project Slosho, Cloverfield, 1-18-08 (or whatever it’s called)

Witness the power of hype. This mystery trailer has echoes of Blair Witch Project and is causing similar ripples. It’s a film that doesn’t even have a title yet but is sending YouTube theorists into a frenzy. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Project Slosho/Cloverfield/1-18-08 as it’s variously known, is produced by JJ Abrams of Lost fame – a [...]

Michael Moore’s Sicko

There’s an interesting review of Michael Moore’s new movie, Sicko, on Salon.com. The film is about the apparent failures of the healthcare system in the USA. In one section, Moore travels to the UK and, in an attempt to illustrate how the USA has got it all wrong, presents free healthcare on the NHS as [...]

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