The Morning Watch: Make Harry Potter Potions At Home, Fact-Checking Space Movies & More
In this edition, find out how to make Harry Potter potions with ingredients at home, listen to an astronaut fact-check space movies, and more.
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Infographic: Bad Science In Movies Chart
IO9 has created a handy chart which shows which space movies feature the most common scientific mistakes. It might come as a surprise that Michael Bay's Armageddon actually fares better than the Star Wars of Alien films. And it comes as no surprise that Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff have been graded a clean…
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VOTD: 15 Years Of Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight released their first film, The Brothers McMullen, in 1995. This year the minimajor is celebrating their 15th anniversary. Anyone who reads /Film knows that I tend to love the type of films that Searchlight picks up at Sundance, and more recently, the films Searchlight has been producing in house (Aronofsky's Black Swan, Boyle's…
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This Week In Trailers: Trash Humpers, It's A Wonderful Afterlife, Mega Piranha, Peacock, Casino Jack And The United States Of Money
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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VOTD: Quentin Tarantino Reviews Danny Boyle's Sunshine
To promote Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino hosted a week of films on the British television station Sky Movies. In past weeks, we've featured some of the gems to come out of this appearance, including Tarantino's listing of the top 20 movies to be released since he became a filmmaker, his review of There Will Be…
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Sunshine Soundtrack Sees The Light Of Day After All
We've written a few times about the soundtrack to Danny Boyle's latest film, Slumdog Millionaire, while simultaneously referencing the fact that the soundtrack to Boyle's Sunshine has been stuck in legal hell for quite some time now. In 2007, producer Andrew Macdonald said explicitly that there were "no plans to release" the soundtrack. This was…
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Interview: Sunshine Director Danny Boyle
On Monday July 16th I had the chance to sit down with Trainspotting/28 Days Later director Danny Boyle about his new film Sunshine. Fifty years from now, the sun is dying and a solar winter has enveloped the earth. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a…
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Movie Review: Sunshine
Sunshine takes place 50 years in the future, and follows a crew of astronauts aboard a spaceship named the Icarus II. The characters are venturing into space to deliver a payload to reignite the sun which is about to burn out, obliterating all mankind. The entire film takes place away from earth as the small…
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Exclusive: 28 Months Later To Invade Russia NOT France
This weekend MTV broke the news that Sunshine director Danny Boyle had an idea to direct a 28 Weeks Later sequel. Today I was lucky to sit-down with Boyle to talk about his new film Sunshine and to hopefully extract some new details about 28 Months Later. "I've got an idea for it. I didn't…
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Final Sunshine Movie Poster Revealed
Danny Boyle's Sunshine (not to be confused with Little Miss) was released overseas in April. We're still looking forward to this one, if it will ever get here. The sci-fi thriller hits US theaters on July 20th, and Fox Searchlight has released the final US Poster. Check it out to the right. Left click to…
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Release Date Change: Balls Of Fury
Rouge Pictures has decided to move Balls of Fury from September 14th, to August 31st 2007. The comedy was originally set to go head to head with Danny Boyle's Sunshine and Jet Li's War. The film will now go up against Mr. Bean's Holiday and Rob Zombie's Halloween. I think they may have been better…
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Page 2: Jolie And Eastwood, Borat Censored, 300 On NES, An Inconvenienced Superman And More
What if Zack Snyder's 300 were a NES video game? It would probably look and sound something like this. What do you get when you mash up Superman Returns and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth? You get An Inconvenienced Superman, a short trailer for a movie that will never be. Someone reedited The Departed into…
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Sunshine's Release Date Troubles
Excited to see Danny Boyle's Sunshine? (The new trailer hit the web yesterday, see it here) Well it looks like you're going to have to wait a little longer. The movie has been in the works for what seems like forever. Filming wrapped in Fall of 2005. And post production took over a year, pushing…
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New Sunshine Movie Trailer And Movie Poster Revealed
Check out the new trailer and poster for Danny Boyle's (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) 2001ish philosophical space horror/drama. [quicktime width="320" height="250"]http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/trailers/sunshinetrailer.mov[/quicktime] The new Sunshine trailer is cut to the same Requiem for a Dream score as the original. Told from Captain Kaneda's point of view, the trailer shows the crew dealing with the many problems…
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