By Simon Miraudo November 26, 2013 Quickflix celebrates her tenth birthday this month, and I’m honouring it the only way I know how: by selecting my favourite films from its first ten years of existence. Born in late 2003, she’s seen a number of massive upheavals in the world of cinema. Some of the biggest […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The To Do List
The red band teaser trailer for Maggie Carey’s raunchy comedy The To Do List sees Aubrey Plaza seeking to not only lose her virginity before college but check off an entire list of sexual acts. The film is set to hit cinemas Valentine’s Day 2013, and Plaza introduces the trailer in her least deadpan performance […]
Continue readingThe top 10 Seth Rogen performances
The top 10 Seth Rogen performances. By Simon Miraudo. Canadian comedian Seth Rogen made his debut in Judd Apatow and Paul Feig‘s TV show Freaks and Geeks at the age of 17, but it would take another six years before he broke out in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (his two-second appearance as ‘Eager Cameraman‘ in Anchorman […]
Continue readingThe top 10 foul-mouthed friends
The top 10 foul-mouthed friends. By Simon Miraudo We’ve all got one. Sometimes they can be your hero, but often they’re an unending personal embarrassment. They say the things we think but could never articulate for fear of offense. Mostly though, they say the things no one ever should. In the case of Ted, that […]
Continue readingParty down – Project X review
Project X – Starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, and Jonathan Daniel Brown. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh. Rated MA. Originally published March 1, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Project X arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia July 4, 2012. I had hoped Project X would have a happy ending, but then all the characters didn’t burn to […]
Continue readingGreg Mottola adapting The Marriage Plot
Greg Mottola (Superbad, Paul) is in talks to adapt Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides novel The Marriage Plot to film, Variety reports. The novel is a coming of age story set in the early 1980s, so we can assume Mottola was pegged for his similarly styled recent movie, Adventureland, which he also wrote. Eugenides […]
Continue readingAll class – 21 Jump Street review
21 Jump Street – Starring Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Brie Larson. Directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. In this cinematic reimagining of the 80s TV show 21 Jump Street, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star as incompetent and immature police officers banished to an experimental undercover department where they […]
Continue readingParty down – Project X review
Project X – Starring Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, and Jonathan Daniel Brown. Directed by Nima Nourizadeh. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. I had hoped Project X would have a happy ending, but then all the characters didn’t burn to death in a house fire. Welcome to a world inhabited by more hateful human beings than […]
Continue reading10 movie characters who are terrible at their job
10 movie characters who are terrible at their job. By Simon Miraudo. In the surprise box office hit Bad Teacher, Cameron Diaz plays a … well, a bad teacher. It’s not the most imaginative title in the world, but it brought in the crowds (to the tune of $216 million worldwide). To celebrate the film’s […]
Continue readingNatalie Portman writing Superbad-for-ladies
Natalie Portman used to be the ‘girl next door’ until her role in 2004’s Closer saw her straddling the stripper pole. More recently in Darren Aronofsky’s new film Black Swan (set to hit our shores January 2011) Portman and co-star Mila Kunis share a lesbian tryst. Now according to the LA Times Portman has co-written […]
Continue readingThe many moods of Michael Cera
With the release of Year One, awkward teen-heartthrob Michael Cera makes the transition from television bit player to headlining comedy star. We’d like to take this opportunity to look back upon the varied, chameleonic career of one of cinema’s future greats – Mikey Cera. Superbad“I’m not too worried about it, really. I wouldn’t worry about […]
Continue readingMclovin the superhero – first Kick Ass pics!
source: aintitcool.com The first official photo of Christopher Mintz-Plasse as Red Mist in Matthew Vaughn‘s upcoming film Kick Ass has debuted on AICN.Kick Ass is about Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a regular kid who decides to become a superhero, as a means of providing himself with an identity and also to defend himself from constant […]
Continue readingArrested Development Movie in…Development?!
source: eonline.com Fans of the illustrious Bluth family can rejoice, with the rumours of an Arrested Development movie finally verified by star Jason Bateman. Bateman has confirmed that show producers Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard have started to develop a story and contact cast members for a film adaptation of the cult program. The little […]
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