When Nic Cage’s career sped down the proverbial shitter after a string of big-budget stinkers, the internet had an absolute  field day poking fun of the crazy-haired actor with videos like this.

But that was sooo last decade.

In 2010, the satirists of internet now have director M. Night Shaymalan in their sights, who after a strong start to his career [...]

Zero gravity shootouts, chaotic car chases and mammoth explosions that would make Michael Bay green with envy. Yes, the new Sci-Fi thriller Inception is your typical Hollywood blockbuster.

Only it’s not.

Hidden somewhere beneath all that fandangle action lies something studio executives would usually hiss at while clutching a crucifix; a clever plot. Few films have one nowadays, possibly due to the word [...]

Oh Twitter. Thanks to you, now everyone can be a film critic. Yes, even @puppydog2222. She had no reservations in calling Twilight: Eclipse “the best movie ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and she certainly wasn’t alone. That’s the kind of hyperbolic praise few professional critics will ever bestow on a film. But in the age of 140 words or less, the art of professional film criticism is dying. Consequently, it mightn’t be all that long until a quote by @puppydog2222 carries the same weight as, say, Roger Ebert. When that happens, movie posters might look something like this…

With the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony just under two weeks away, the movie blogging community is going rabid with their predictions. Here at Cut Print Review, however, we’ve kept quite on the subject, as down here in Australia we don’t get to see many of the Oscar nominated films until the weeks leading up to the ceremony, and often, after it. Now that I’ve had a chance to see most of the films nominated, I thought it was about time to chime in with my predictions.

Yes folks, it’s that time of year again – awards season in Hollywood has well and truly kicked off! The first of the major awards shows in the lead-up to the Oscars is the Golden Globes, a night to celebrate achievements in both film and television for the last year. The combination of stars always makes for an interesting red carpet – those that were utterly gorgeous, those that were ok but not quite there, and those that really make you wonder what people think when they look in the mirror!!

For those not familiar with silent cinema, significant films of the era generally fell into three categories: Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffiths and the rest. While most know Chaplin as the bumbling Tramp through pop culture (or the awesome statue that greets moviegoers to Event Cinemas Marion in Adelaide), D.W. Griffiths was the guy who first created the epic feature. His films have been on my to-watch list for quite some time – not just because he was visually experimental in the early cinema age; some would say the themes of his films were ahead of his time, while his collaborations with muse Lillian Gish is still said to be one of Hollywood’s most prolific. I always thought I’d start big and rent his best-known film (The Birth of a Nation, 1915), but I saw Broken Blossoms (1919) and decided to ease myself into his work.