Australia and Horror Movies–A Really Bad Move.
Meanwhile, just a few hundred nautical miles down from China, who’s just banned all horror movies from their shores except for the millions of pirated copies being sold on the street, the Australians go way too far the other way.
A official of the Australian government recently put on a movie night for some underage sex offenders—some as young as fifteen years old–at a juvenile detention center, naturally at taxpayer expense. Okay, you might think…no real problem there. Maybe they were getting a reward for behaving properly or something. Well, it’s not really a problem until you hear what movie they were watching.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Apparently, at some point, there was going to be a sequel to The Punisher. Now, I’m not sure why—the first one was so much steaming cow flop—but I guess enough people liked it to make it worthwhile. Interestingly enough, it was slated to have a woman director, which is extremely rare. Women directing action movies have only been seen a handful of times in the last fifteen years.
Hugh Jackman was a minor heartthrob even before his role in X-Men, X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand. But appearing with massive sideburns and retractable metal claws drew in an unprecidented female audience, exposing the Marvel franchise to a whole new group of fans.
It’s a bit of an ignominious end for Gollum’s next movie, kids—Andy Serkis, perhaps best known for playing scaly, sniveling schizophrenic Smeagol (or Gollum, if you prefer—and sure, it’s probably more of a multiple personality disorder than schizophrenia, but I’m a sucker for alliteration!) will be appearing in the British horror / comedy 
So I’m out here cheerily laughing and pointing in derision as reflection on the latest Oscar snoozefest shows that it was one of the worst rated iterations of the awards ceremony to date.
10,000 B.C. is the latest historical epic in the vein of Apocalypto, which nobody cared about either. In the world of film, 10,000 B.C. is pretty much no-count, but it’s almost guaranteed to attract the great unwashed masses. People who show up to the theater on a Friday night with no particular movie in mind will go for it. It looks so deliciously…epic.
In a round of musical directors, control over one of the latest Neil Gaiman films, Black Hole, has been handed off from Alexandre Aja to David Fincher.
Sort of.
Not too well, apparently. The votes are counted, the reviews are in, and Vantage Point remains at a 
