This Week In Australian Cinemas (4 February, 2010)
February 4, 2010 by Sean Lynch
Filed under Movie Trailers, Movies, This Week In Cinemas...
It’s Thursday, which means a brand new batch of flicks are heading towards Australian screens and, as usual, you can’t for the life of you work out which one you want to see and why. Well, that’s not your job is it… it’s ours!
So to save you the hassle and pain of thinking, we have the WATCH OUT FOR | MOVIES – THIS WEEK IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMAS…. It’s a nifty weekly round up which gives you a quick, easy guide as to what to race out to see – and what to avoid like a Jamie Foxx movie.
The big question is – what is good, what is crap, what will make you cry and what will (most importantly) allow you to get to second or (if you are lucky) third base with that guy or gal you’ve been crushing on all month long.
Mel Gibson : Sober And Not Ranting
We know you don’t have time to trawl through the newspapers – so WATCH OUT FOR | MOVIES is happy to do all the leg work for you, giving you the Ins and Outs, the Hits and Misses of Movies hitting Australian screens for the week of February 4th 2010.
Daybreakers
Starring : Ethan Hawke & Willem Dafoe . Director :Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire…
While Daybreakers isn’t perfect (it does suffer from a case of the “greys”, and feels like it goes for A LOT longer than it actually does), it’s genuinely good fun.
The story is pretty solid – filled with some decent twists and turns, the cast are just swell, the graphics are low-fi but insanely effective…. and there is a SHITLOAD OF GORE! Those Spierig Brothers certainly have an eye for what looks good on cinema screens. [ READ THE FULL REVIEW HERE ]
WATCH OUT FOR | HIT PICK
Edge Of Darkness
Starring : Mel Gibson & Ray Winstone. Director : Martin Campbell
As homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the death of his activist daughter, he uncovers not only her secret life, but a corporate cover-up and government collusion that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence.
Mel Gibson is back – and even a bad Gibson movie is still pretty damn good. Luckily, this isn’t bad! [ WATCH THE TRAILER HERE ]
Precious
Starring : Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe & Mo’Nique. Director: Lee Daniels
In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen pregnant with her second child is invited to enrol in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
Gabourey Sidibe gives an astounding debut performance as the young Precious. She projects a genuinely saddening facade as the victim of such unspeakable acts; but we are not meant to “aww” and “poor thing”. Precious does not, despite all mitigating circumstances, sink into neutral self-loathing.
Much like Australian drama/black comedy Bad Boy Bubby, the film manages to create something positive and reaffirming out of atrocious circumstances and actions. [ READ FULL REVIEW HERE ]
