Giveaway: Win Double Passes to Crawl
Thanks to Paramount Pictures Australia, ccpopculture has 5 double passes to give away to Crawl, releasing in Australian cinemas Thursday July 11th.
Thanks to Paramount Pictures Australia, ccpopculture has 5 double passes to give away to Crawl, releasing in Australian cinemas Thursday July 11th.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is neither the hero the superhero genre deserves nor the villain it dreads. This is a film about two superheroes waging war with one another that’s similarly at war with itself, riven between competing narratives, commercial concerns and an overarching ambition that sees it striving for meaning before collapsing…
Maleficent is studio-mandated fan fiction, a Sleeping Beauty remix with sumptuous visuals that never really provides a good reason for existing. I’ll grant that it’s the first competent execution of the post-300 “artificial live-action” aesthetic, but the narrative adjustments to the classic tale – a sympathetic villain, an excoriation of dictatorial hierarchies and a hefty…
Robert Redford gets lost in a dense sea of symbolism in All is Lost. My review of this impressive, if monotonous, film can be found at Cheated Hearts. 300: Rise of an Empire is more interested in 3D sprays of blood and conflicts – between fleets of ships and Eva Green/Sullivan Stapleton alike. My review…
Let’s take a moment to consider how far Spartacus has come. The first episodes are justly maligned, more a cut-rate rip-off of 300 than the complex, thoughtful yet deliciously trashy melodrama we’ve since enjoyed. But even as the first season hit its stride, it remained a small-scale show, filled with scrappy battles and petty political…