Cinemascape with Marshall Julius 17/01/2013

by bbmarshall on January 17, 2013

Django Unchained

No one does Tarantinoesque quite like the original Quentin, a man whose love for cult Seventies cinema routinely manifests itself into polarising movie events. His films are so stylised and extreme, so deliberately written and knowingly shot, you have no choice but to love them or hate them. There is no middle ground.

Me, I love them AND I hate them. They’re thrilling and disappointing, hilarious and tedious, ingenious and derivative, sublime and obnoxious, all at once. This is true of virtually all his work and Django Unchained (18) is no exception.

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Service Update: Important Information About Your Blockbuster By Post Subscription

by bbmal on January 16, 2013

As you may be aware, Lee Antony Manning, Matthew David Smith and Neville Barry Kahn of Deloitte LLP were appointed as Joint Administrators of Blockbuster Entertainment Limited and Blockbuster GB Limited (”the Companies”) on 16 January 2013.

Whilst we appreciate that this will be unwelcome news, it is the Joint Administrators’ intention to continue to trade the business as usual, whilst they assess the options for the business. [click here for more...]

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This Week @ blockbuster.co.uk 14/01/2013

by bbmarshall on January 14, 2013

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We’ve got a couple of cracking crime films for you this week, the first a period thriller about honourable bootleggers battling crooked coppers, the second a futuristic actioner about a judge, jury and executioner type who saves the world, one ultra-violent slaying at a time. Brilliant!

Lawless

A traditional American crime story about the good men who break the law and the monsters who enforce it, well told from an off-centre perspective with style, substance and plenty of personality, Lawless tells the true, prohibition-era tale of a moonshine-fuelled trio of bootlegging brothers who live, not in the big city, but the mountains of Franklin County, Virginia.

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Oscar Nominations 2013

by bbjamess on January 10, 2013

oscar-nominees

BEST PICTURE
Amour
Argo
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST DIRECTOR
Life Of Pi – Ang Lee
Lincoln – Steven Spielberg
Amour – Michael Haneke
Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
Beasts Of The Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin
BEST ACTOR
Denzel Washington – Flight
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin – Argo
Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
BEST ACTRESS
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – The Master
Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Sally Field – Lincoln
Jacky Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Brave
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
The Pirates! In An Adventure WIth Scientists
Wreck-it-Ralph
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio – Argo
Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin – Beasts Of The Southern Wild
David Magee – Life Of Pi
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michael Haneke – Amour
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty
John Gatins – Flight
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina – Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained – Robert Richardson
Life Of Pi – Claudio Miranda
Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall – Roger Deakins
COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables – Paco Delgado
Lincoln – Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror – Eiko Ishioka
Snow White And The Huntsman – Colleen Atwood
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How To Survive A Plague
The Invisible War
Searching For Sugar Man
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays At Racine
Open Heart
Redemption
BEST FILM EDITING
Argo – William Goldenberg
Life Of Pi – Tim Squyres
Zero Dark Thirty – Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg
Lincoln – Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook – Jay Cassidy & Crispin Struthers
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour – Austria
Kon-Tiki – Norway
No – Chile
A Royal Affair – Denmark
War Witch – Canada
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock – Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
Les Misérables – Lisa Westcott
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina – Dario Marianelli
Argo – Alexandre Desplat
Life Of Pi – Mychael Danna
Lincoln – John Williams
Skyfall – Thomas Newman
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
‘Before My Time’ from Chasing Ice
‘Everybody Needs A Best Friend’ from Ted
‘Pi’s Lullaby’ from Life Of Pi
‘Skyfall’ from Skyfall
‘Suddenly’ from Les Miserables
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Adam and Dog
Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson In “The Longest Daycare”
Paperman
BEST LIVE FILM SHORT
Asad
Buzkashi Boys
Curfew
Death Of A Shadow
Henry
BEST SOUND EDITING
Argo
Django Unchained
Life Of Pi
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
BEST SOUND MIXING
Argo
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi
Lincoln
Skyfall
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Life Of Pi
Marvel Avengers Assemble
Prometheus
Snow White And The Huntsman

BEST PICTURE

Amour

Argo

Django Unchained

Les Misérables

Life Of Pi

Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Silver Linings Playbook

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Cinemascape with Marshall Julius 10/01/2013

by bbmarshall on January 10, 2013

Les Miserables

If you’ve not yet downloaded the January issue of Blockbuster Magazine, follow this link to treat the iDevice in your hands to a fabulous freebie that only lives to give. Jon Voight returns with a second column, Ben ‘Plan B’ Drew swings by for a chat, we’ve a tribute to late puppet master Gerry Anderson and every film and game worth its salt gets thoroughly reviewed.

Something else worth shouting about is a new column by a writer pal of ours called Jan Gilbert. We call it Jan Solo, in part because it represents her personal thoughts on the world of film, but mainly because we can’t resist dorky Star Wars references. This month Jan waxes lyrical on her love of movie musicals, focusing on this week’s epic release, Les Misérables (12A).

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BAFTA Nominations 2013

by bbmal on January 9, 2013

ee-bafta-film-awards-rgb-pos-web-19740It’s award season, leading up to the OSCARS in February. The British Academy Film Awards have just announced their nominees -

BEST FILM
ARGO – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney

LES MISÉRABLES - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh

LIFE OF PI – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark

LINCOLN – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy

ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

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This Week @ blockbuster.co.uk 07/01/2013

by bbmarshall on January 7, 2013

Take This Waltz

We’re in a quality, not quantity, frame of mind this week at blockbuster.co.uk. Submitted for your approval then, two romantic movies that have almost nothing in common, save for the fact that they’re both well worth a watch.

Take This Waltz

Though considerably better known for her acting, Sarah Polley proved her chops as a director with 2006’s Oscar-nominated Away From Her. Seven years on, Take This Waltz confirms her filmmaking talent. A smart, insightful drama with plenty of heart and provocative talking points, it’s seriously sexy too.

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Cinemascape with Marshall Julius 03/01/2013

by bbmarshall on January 3, 2013

Quartet

A tale of old dogs learning new tricks from a veteran Hollywood icon who, at 75, has finally popped his directing cherry, Quartet (12A) is a gentle comedy drama for folks of a certain age. Although I’m thirty years or more from those pasture days myself, the appeal of something sweet, cosy and amusing is easily apparent. Switching expectations to ‘nice’ and settling down for something comforting makes a welcome change of pace, and it’s only right that older parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and mummies are catered to in movies today.

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Top Ten Films 2012

by bbmarshall on December 31, 2012

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A magnificent year for movies, 2012 was, for me, a treasure chest overflowing with golden treats. So rich and varied, it felt like a feast of film. Restricting myself to titles released on Blu-ray and DVD from the beginning of January to the end of December 2012, I set about the arduous task of selecting a personal top ten and although I could have easily produced a Top 30 without breaking a sweat, I finally cracked it. If there’s any below you haven’t yet seen, lucky you. Buy or rent them now from your pals right here at blockbuster.co.uk.

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Cinemascape with Marshall Julius 27/12/2012

by bbmarshall on December 27, 2012

Jack "Can't Quite" Reacher

While many actors come up on the small side, only Tom Cruise gets stick for it. Though he’s no shorter than Al Pacino or Robert Downey Jr, all three of whom are 5’7’’ tall and not even close to being among Hollywood’s tiniest male stars, really it’s only Cruise who gets picked on. Sure, he wears platforms, favours low camera angles and errs on the self-conscious side, but those hardly seems like crimes.

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