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Written by Sian Rafferty
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:29 |
‘HOWL’ is bodies twisting and thrashing and fighting, it's junkies wandering littered streets at night looking for their next fix, it’s corporate America not caring who they stand on to get to the top. ‘Howl’ is a blunt and bloody ode to humanity written by Allen Ginsberg, who sang his poem from grotty grey cities right onto the Technicolor streets of middle-class America, and who was accused of threatening and corrupting normal society. This film follows the rise and trial of the poem, as the law courts questioned its relevance to literature, and whether or not it was justifiably obscene.
The film is set out with three main interwoven parts. These include a performance by Ginsberg, or as it could be called ‘the Enlightenment’ of a young audience, an interview two years later as he catalogues the events which led to him writing said poem, and finally the trial of the poem - featuring many a stirring speech from the defence, and various literary experts opinions. The whole film is held together by Ginsberg’s rolling and rumbling reading of the poem, pulling together the threads of the different stories, and is illustrated with some pretty amazing animation. The shadowy characters which creep across the screen acting out the words which Ginsberg spits out - the dark, spotlight-lit streets and the amazing, all consuming monster-god ‘Moloch’ - are probably the most remarkable things you will take away from this movie.
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Written by Vicki Lin
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 15:00 |
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Emma Stone ('ZOMBIELAND'). Penn Badgley ('GOSSIP GIRL'). Cam Gigandet ('TWILIGHT'). Amanda Bynes (retired and now officially un-retired). Lisa Kudrow... and a whole line-up of well known on-screen faces team up for 'EASY A'. A comedy.
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Written by Sacha Young
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 11:09 |
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'STEP UP 3D'
In cinemas on the 5th of August (NZ).
"A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke (Malambri) and Natalie (Vinson), team up with NYU freshman Moose (Sevani), and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever."
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Written by Sian Rafferty
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Monday, 19 July 2010 15:10 |
Imagine you are running through a maze. You don’t know what’s at the end; you just know you have to keep running. It’s an intricate thing, like some kind of clockwork, fitting together in an ever complex manner. You reach that final corner, stretch out your hand to open that last door... and everything starts spinning, the whole world flips, churning and twisting, and you don’t even know which way you came from. It’s then you realise that this is something a whole lot bigger than you signed up for, and you haven’t even scratched the surface. Well, welcome to ‘INCEPTION'.
Christopher Nolan (director of 'The Dark Knight' and 'Memento') is either the greatest visionary of this century, or simply a man who gets his kicks by stabbing our brains with hot pokers and giving them a good, hard twist. Keeping in this tradition, his new film ‘Inception’ promises to be every bit the mind-numbing conundrum. In a new form of corporate espionage, actives are able to access the dreams of their marks, and with that delve into the vaults of the subconscious. Imagine every secret you said you would guard for a friend, every guilty feeling you ever had, and then imagine these in the hands of someone out to get you. As you can see, this would be a high risk career option, and for skilled thief Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio), one which has caused his world to quickly crumble around him. So when he is given the opportunity to get it all back - no matter the cost, no matter the impossibility of the job - he jumps at it.
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Written by Sian Rafferty
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Sunday, 18 July 2010 13:43 |
It’s been a good decade or so since our generation saw any real form of social anarchy. Not since the grungy and goth-y days of the nineties have we been able to truly flabbergast our parents, concern our headmasters, and shame our grandparents. Even then, let’s face it: the closest most of us got to a rebellious youth was black nail polish, or having to witness Miley Cyrus running around in leather chaps. Maybe I am being too hard on kids these days, we still have graffiti and expulsions and binge drinking, yet something about retro rebellion – especially head-banging, the hard and fast, devil may-care days of the seventies and eighties just seem to have a bit more sparkle and swagger than our meagre attempts.
This dirty teen spirit is portrayed epically in ‘THE RUNAWAYS', a biopic which documents the meteoric rise of the girl band which dragged themselves biting and spitting into the spotlight. It all starts off when Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart), with a point blank determination in her dull eyes, manages to convince producer Kim Fowley (in an excellent turn by Michael Shannon) that she can pull together the next big thing in rock. This was a time when rock 'n roll was definitely a boys club, where the only role available to women - especially young wide eyed girls - was worshipping the swearing and sweating men onstage. Stewart, I hate to say, was born to play this legendary role... and creates a character which was always in control, and always in it for the high she got from playing.
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