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Early Script Review for 'Voltron' {Cinematical}
Aug 12th 2008 6:12PM Huh?
That review has been online for aaaages now.
Did you mean this one?
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Script-Review-The-Voltron-Movie-9793.html
Disney Prepares Comedy About ... Synchronized Swimming {Cinematical}
Jul 10th 2008 10:27PM I wonder will it bear any resemblance to the hugely successful Japanese comedy Waterboys - a recent movie about an all-male highschool synchronised swimming team...
Unsubsidized iPhone 3G priced at ?499/?569 in Europe {Engadget}
Jun 12th 2008 2:35AM These comments make my head hurt.
This is how pretty much every phone is released in Europe. Networks subsidise high-price phones in order to get customers to sign up to lengthy contracts. However, the phones are often sold on a pay-as-you-go basis unsubsidised (but still network-locked) - and 500 euro is a common price-point for top of the range phones. The iPhone is by no means strange in offering itself in such a way at such a price-point.
O2 UK have also announced they have plans to sell pre-pay iPhones, but there has been no announcement on price. O2 Ireland have said they wont be selling pre-pay iPhones.
On regards to quality of life and so on: Europe is not a single entity, and each country has a varying degree of 'socialism'. In Ireland, consumer tax is around 20%, and the government taxes your earnings at a different rate depending on what you earn - the highest rate of tax is about 40% - nowhere near the 70% touted above. Health-care is largely free in Ireland, as is education right the way from primary school to the completion of a 4 year university degree. The minimum wage is also above 8 euro.
Cinematical Seven: Deliberately Offensive (But Fun) Comedies {Cinematical}
Apr 22nd 2008 11:47PM I'd have to add in a shout for The Producers. Any film with a musical number involving nazi stormtroopers is bound to get people's backs up!
There's a forgotten little gem called Nuns on the Run starring Robbie Coltrane as a thief who hides out in a convent disguised a nun. It's not quite Life-of-Brian offensive, but then you do have to thread carefully with such material!
Cinematical Seven: Out of Control Cops {Cinematical}
Apr 11th 2008 12:03AM What about Riggs of Lethal Weapon? A loose cannon if ever there was one!
Amazon Running Awesome Deal on Blu-ray Movies {Cinematical}
Apr 10th 2008 12:19AM Referring to Blu Ray as 'Blu Ray DVD' or other variants doesn't help inform those who aren't up-to-date on their terminology, it just muddies the water and confuses them further.
Review: I Am Legend {Cinematical}
Dec 14th 2007 12:44AM By the sounds of it, the film takes a lot of liberties with the book. That's always a little disappointing, but considering that the success of the novel was in bringing to life Neville's repetitive, lonely existence to life and in capturing the inner-thoughts of such a man, it was always going to be a big task to transfer to the big screen in tact.
As such, I'm mentally preparing myself for a mildly-entertaining 'Diet 28 Days Later' - judging by your review, I should be satisfied!
Cinematical Seven: Movies Celebrating Alcohol {Cinematical}
Dec 5th 2007 10:24PM I'd have to put forward Withnail & I - if only because the drinking game it spawned (keep pace with the characters) will hospitalise you.
Cinematical Seven: Why I Don't Care for Zombie Movies {Cinematical}
Oct 26th 2007 12:19AM The upcoming World War Z movie, if anything like the book, should hopefully address some of these concerns
Cinematical Seven: Best Westerns Since 'Unforgiven' {Cinematical}
Sep 24th 2007 8:53PM Miike's recently released Sukiyaki Western Django also deserves an honorable mention - if only because it is the most bizarre Western since Unforgiven.
