Not long ago, it would cost Hollywood upwards of $100 million to destroy downtown Los Angeles, most of which would be spent employing an expert team of stuntmen, set  designers, pyrotechnicians and a horde of visual artists. These days, it can be done at a fraction of the cost using a Mac Book Pro, a 3D modelling suite and many, many cans of Red Bull.

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Mexico’s coast houses one of the world’s most beautiful atoll reefs and the country is trying to gain a World Heritage site honour for Banco Chinchorro, which is displayed to beautiful use in Alamar. This may be the reason for making the landscape such a large part of this film, as well as director Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio’s love for documentaries. He’s created a hybrid of style (and colour) for his latest [...]

The recent string of English-language remakes continues with Jonathan Lynn’s (My Cousin Vinny, The Whole Nine Yards) British comedy Wild Target. Taking aim at the 1993 French film Cible Emouvante, a bullseye, this is not.

When Britain’s most esteemed assassin, Victor Maynard (Bill Nighy), fails to kill his (wild) target Rose (Emily Blunt), he reluctantly agrees to protect her from the men who want her dead. Caught [...]

If nothing else, take heart in the fact that Saw VII 3D – possibly the movie’s title, possibly its library call number – marks the end of a horror franchise that, quite frankly, should have only ever been a trilogy. After all, it was in the third film that the remarkably productive serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) perished. But alas, there was still money to be made. So [...]

When a skateboarder does a 180, they spin themselves so they’ve switched sides. That’s clearly the aim of the Greek film industry, which is on the rise as each Greek Film Festival in Australia gains better attendances. 2010 was no exception as films on offer included local smash Nisos, war drama Heart and Soul and 180 Degrees, a tale of how a simple half-spin can turn someone’s life completely upside [...]

So you’ve awoken to some distressing news – it’s the zombie apocalypse. The people on the telly are urging you lock your doors and steer clear of individuals with chunks of their head missing, as if they’re the kind of folk you’d usually invite in for tea and biscuits. To make matters worse, your once-lovely girlfriend has just tried to eat your face, which might have been a [...]

The after-life and film have always been dangerous bedfellows.  There have been successes (The Sixth Sense, The Others) but also disappointments (The Lovely Bones, After.Life). Sadly, Zac Efron’s latest star vehicle Charlie St. Cloud, joins the list of the damned.

Charlie St. Cloud (Zac Efron) and his young admiring brother Sam (Charlie Tahan) are left to their own devices as single mother Claire (Kim Basinger, the ‘Where’s [...]

The first year of the new millennium, 2001, sure gave moviegoers a number of reasons to smile: the release of the first Harry Potter, the first Lord of the Rings, the first Ocean’s Eleven remake and the first Shrek. These entertaining films established the beginnings of many beloved (and some not so beloved) sequels bestowed upon us between then and now. Another franchise waiting to happen in 2001 [...]