Category: Film & TV

Film Review:  The Muppets (2011)

Film Review: The Muppets (2011)

| 11 January , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: James Bobin Starring: Jason Segal, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, all your favourite Muppets! Sassi\’s Star Rating: 4/5 In 2011 not many people may care about The Muppets anymore (well in this film version anyway), but Smalltown USA holds their biggest fan. Walter (voiced by Peter Linz) has never really fit in; generally because [...]

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Film Review:  Japanese Animation Arrietty

Film Review: Japanese Animation Arrietty

| 11 January , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Starring: Saorise Ronan, Tom Holland (UK English Language version) Sassi\’s Star Rating: 4.5/5 This latest offering from famous Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli can be summed up in one word; enchanting. Arrietty is based on Mary Norton\’s 1952 Carnegie medal winning book The Borrowers about a family of tiny people whom [...]

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Eva Mendes: ‘Girl in Progress’ Movie Poster

Eva Mendes: ‘Girl in Progress’ Movie Poster

| 6 January , 2012 | Reply

How cute is this movie poster just released featuring Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez for the film Girl in Progress? Scheduled for release in the US April 27th, not sure about Australia … I will watch anything with Eva Mendes, I just love her. Synopsis: Grace (Mendes) is a single mom. She is too busy [...]

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First Look: Vanessa Hudgens’ Promo Stills from Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

First Look: Vanessa Hudgens’ Promo Stills from Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

| 4 January , 2012 | Reply

Warner Bros Entertainment have released these promotion stills from the upcoming 3D family flick Journey 2: The Mysterious Island starring Vanessa Hudgens, Josh Hutcherson and Dwayne Johnson.  Journey 2 is the follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit “Journey to the Center of the Earth.” Film Synopsis: The new 3D family adventure begins when 17-year-old Sean [...]

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Premieres Tonight: Scouted, Behind The Scenes Of NYC’s World of Modelling

Premieres Tonight: Scouted, Behind The Scenes Of NYC’s World of Modelling

| 4 January , 2012 | Reply

Countless international supermodels have walked the runways at top designer fashion shows and have graced the covers of major fashion magazines.  Because they\’re all recognised for their undeniable beauty. But before these models were household names, they were living lives of obscurity, oblivious to where their good looks would lead them. In  Foxtel\’s new docu-series, [...]

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Nicole Kidman & Zac Efron Go Retro for The Paperboy Movie Poster

Nicole Kidman & Zac Efron Go Retro for The Paperboy Movie Poster

| 29 December , 2011 | Reply

The first movie poster featuring Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron for the upcoming thriller “The Paperboy.”  Starring alongside Matthew McConaughey and John Cusack the movie is based on the novel by Pete Dexter.  The story follows a Miami Times reporter as he returns to his Florida hometown to investigate the imprisonment of a death row inmate. [...]

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Film Review: Albert Nobbs

Film Review: Albert Nobbs

| 26 December , 2011 | Reply

Directed By: Rodrigo García Starring: Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska, Brendan Gleeson, Aaron Johnson Sassi\’s Star Rating: 3.5/5 Adaptation is the name of the game in this gender bending drama set in 19th century Dublin. Glenn Close stars as the peculiar Albert Nobbs, a woman who has assumed the guise of a man in [...]

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Film Review: Warhorse

Film Review: Warhorse

| 26 December , 2011 | Reply

Directed by: Steven Spielberg Staring: Jeremy Irvine, Tom Hiddleston, David Thewlis, Emily Watson, and Peter Mullan Sassi\’s Star Rating: 3.5/5 Based on the 1982 children\’s novel by Michael Morpurgo, Warhorse is an endearing story of friendship set in the rolling Devon countryside of Southwest England on the edge of the First World War. When struggling [...]

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Film Review: The Adventures of Tintin

Film Review: The Adventures of Tintin

| 26 December , 2011 | Reply

Directed by: Steven Spielberg Staring: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost Sassi\’s Star Rating: 3.5/5 Hergé\’s boy journalist has transformed into the Indiana Jones for the younger generations in this modern take on The Adventures of Tintin. Based on three 1940\’s era Tintin comics The Crab with the Golden Claw, The [...]

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Film Review:  Happy Feet Two

Film Review: Happy Feet Two

| 26 December , 2011 | Reply

Director: George Miller Cast: Robin Williams, Pink, Elijah Wood, Hank Azaria, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon Sassi\’s Star Rating: 5 / 5 It\’s hard to follow up the original but this movie is even more spectacular with loads of singing and a marvellous array of talent on board. Aussie Director/Writer George Miller has carefully written another [...]

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Film Review:  We Bought a Zoo

Film Review: We Bought a Zoo

| 22 December , 2011 | Reply

Director: Cameron Crowe Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning Sassi\’s Star Rating: 4 / 5 Benjamin Mee (Damon), is a father that moves to Southern California with his young family to take on the mammoth task of opening an old, run-down zoo. It\’s the start of a big new adventure for [...]

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