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Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

by Chris Laverty on June 13, 2008 2 Comments

The first is cool; the second is just a plain old fool.

Folded:

  • Take the personality test! (are you extraverted, introverted, insane? Find out here! Takes a while to do though – oh, and at least one of us turned up with the same Jung personality as Abraham Lincoln)
  • The Long Walk To Finchley (regardless of your opinions on Margaret Thatcher, this one-off comedy/drama plays as the epitome of what BBC4 do best: light political fluff)
  • Lee McQueen (seems like, for once, any old Alan has picked the right candidate; apparently he’s putting Lee to work on the London Underground somewhere)

Creased:

  • CGI (why is it seldom as good as filmmakers think it is?)
  • No more The Apprentice (in 2005 it started off worse than Dragons Den and then swiftly became the only reality show worth watching. Big Brother then, everyone? Hmm? No)
  • Gone Baby Gone (far and away not a bad movie, but Mr Ben Affleck needs to find his own voice and not Clint Eastwood’s if he wants to succeed as a credible director)
  • Jumper on DVD (even with some mildy interesting deleted scenes, you’d still be better off eating your money rather than spending it on this)

Jumper Drives A Bus Through Weekend Box Office

by Stuart Heritage on February 18, 2008 1 Comment

Jumper movie weekend box officeAh, Valentine's Day weekend. What could be more romantic than dragging your girlfriend to see a hokey sci-fi movie on the off-chance that you'll get to see Rachel Bilson in her bra.

You guessed it – Jumper is the top movie at the weekend box office.

Jumper, you'll remember, is the film where Hayden Christensen can jump through space in an instant. We're looking forward to when he learns to jump through time, because maybe we can convince him to undo the Star Wars prequels. And Factory Girl. And Awake. And maybe, if we're lucky, the moment he decided to be an actor instead of a Superdrug shelf-stacker.

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Eminem Was Almost In Jumper, Apparently

by Stuart Heritage on February 15, 2008 0 Comments

Jumper Eminem Hayden Christensen Dough LimanYou've probably seen trailers for Jumper – the new dimension-leaping movie starring Darth Vader and Billy Elliot – and you've probably decided not to go and see it because it looks hopeless.

But ask yourself this: would you have gone to see Jumper if the Hayden Christensen role was played by Eminem?

No. No you probably wouldn't. But that didn't stop Eminem from having discussions with director Doug Liman about starring as the lead in Jumper in the preproduction stages. Although it's impossible to tell what Jumper would have been like if it had Eminem in it, we're guessing that it probably would have been reset in Detroit and been about a plucky wannabe rapper instead of Darth Vader driving buses through a desert.

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