Who? You may not know the names Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein if you're not (a) Swedish or (b) in the UK. The pair have made, among other things, the Swedish thriller Storm (2005), and the thriller Shelter (2009) with Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, which has hit territories including the UK and Japan, but…
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Usually when the central protagonist is absent from the latest entry in a franchise, that's a sign that it's on its last legs, and the studio is making a last-ditch attempt to milk it of all its remaining worth. One might've thought that was the case with Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, but lo and…
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What would it take to get you really excited for the fourth Underworld film? I'm not sure anything would do the trick for me (I wasn't excited for the second and third by any means) but putting a really good writer on the job would help. Seeing that a writer from The Shield would be…
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You might well argue that 3D is nothing more than a gimmick but I would wholeheartedly disagree. You might as well say stereo sound over mono is a gimmick or that zoom lenses are a gimmick. The addition of a "second eye" opens up so many new expressive storytelling devices for filmmakers that this new…
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