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Interview: IRON SKY director Timo Vuorensola | By Anders Wotzke

Anders Wotzke — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:06:01 +0000

When someone asks whether you’d be interested in interviewing the chap who made a movie about moon Nazis, you’d be mad to say “nein”.

His name is Timo Vuorensola and his movie is Iron Sky, a wonderfully absurd sci-fi comedy that ponders what might have happened had the Nazis retreated to the dark side of the moon to regroup. It also ponders what might happen [...]

Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy (Review) | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:19:03 +0000

Comparisons between Trainspotting and Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy are inevitable, appropriate and a total disservice to the former.

Both films are set in the Scottish narcotics scene. Both are based on novels by Irwine Welsh. Both open with self-reflective narration from a thickly-accented protagonist, and both see him searching for drugs in his own faeces before the first twenty minutes are up. And yet everything that was fresh and exciting about Trainspotting [...]

Top Five: Tim Burton Films | By Ella Wardlaw

Ella Wardlaw — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:46:17 +0000

You know a Tim Burton movie the moment you see one. His films have become so unmistakably recognisable – twisty and dark, yet quirky and fun — that the term ‘Burtonesque’ is now a part of our everyday lingo. Few directors can juxtapose gothic horror with social satire the way Burton can. Sure, most of his films spring from recycled fairytales, horror films, comics and TV sitcoms, but this doesn’t [...]

Dark Shadows (Video Review) | By Anders Wotzke

Anders Wotzke — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:26:24 +0000

Every few years on Halloween’s eve, somewhere between a sharp crack of thunder and a wolf’s longing howl, Tim Burton phones Johnny Depp to ominously announce:

“It is time.”

“Right,” Depp sombrely replies, “I’ll start applying the makeup.”

This is the unofficial story of how Burton and Depp’s eight collaborations have come to pass, the first being the broodingly brilliant Edward Scissorhands, and the latest being the broodingly not-so-brilliant-but-still-entertaining Dark Shadows.

Based on a [...]

Funny: DARK SHADOWS bloopers with Johnny Depp | By Anders Wotzke

Anders Wotzke — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:20:03 +0000
When you're Johnny Depp, remembering which eccentric, creepy character you're playing this week can be a little confusing. (This is a parody video, just in case you thought these were actual bloopers.)

Win GET THE GRINGO Tickets & DVD Action Pack! | By Anders Wotzke

Anders Wotzke — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:31:47 +0000

To celebrate the May 31^st release of GET THE GRINGO, the new action/thriller starring Mel Gibson, Icon Films are giving Moviedex readers the chance to win an in-season double pass to the film as well as a DVD Action pack valued at over $135! Five runners-up will also receive an double pass to see Get the Gringo in cinemas.

To be in the draw, simply fill out the entry form below.

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Rebellion [L’orde et la morale] (Review) | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Thu, 10 May 2012 06:00:33 +0000

After a couple of serious Hollywood misfires in the form of Gothika and Babylon A.D., Matthieu Kassovitz’s first French language film in over a decade is a tense, troubling and highly politicized return to form. Set during a guerrilla uprising in the French colony of New Caledonia that took place the late nineteen eighties, Rebellion [L’orde et la morale] stars Kassovitz himself as an experienced hostage negotiator and Special [...]

The Five-Year Engagement (Review) | By Anders Wotzke

Anders Wotzke — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:24:41 +0000

Super-producer Judd Apatow and his creative minions have given the romantic comedy a much needed shakeup in recent years, embracing humour of a more raunchy and irreverent variety while also pasteurising the classic formula with a welcome degree of sincerity. Still, if last year’s Bridesmaids is any indication, Apatow’s rom-com recipe has yet to be perfected, the film’s serious and silly elements struggling to meld into [...]

Act of Valor (Review) | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Fri, 04 May 2012 02:38:43 +0000

Every time I think American action films can’t get any more ludicrously jingoistic, Hollywood goes and proves me wrong. Act of Valor, a production over which the US Navy had final cut, made me yearn for the nuanced screenwriting of Battleship, the moderate politics of Transformers 3 and the versatility and range of Sam Worthington and Taylor Kitsch. A twelve million-dollar military recruitment ad tailor-made for the videogame [...]

The Avengers (Review) | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:29:08 +0000

After years of development and no less than five quasi-prequels later – Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America – Marvel’s superhero slumber party The Avengers arrives with expectations no mere mortal could possibly meet. But writer/director Joss Whedon is no mere mortal; he’s the geek deity responsible for TV’s Buffy and Firefly, and not only does his Avengers satisfy expectations, it [...]