Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming fantasy-adventure film directed by Tim Burton. It is an extension to the Lewis Carroll novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The film will use a [...]
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Theatrical release date:
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May 4, 2012
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Dir: Drew Goddard.
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Anna Hutchison
Sixteen years on from Wes Craven’s postmodern slasher Scream, is there anything left for Hollywood to deconstruct? In the year of a Spider-Man reboot that hopes to erase memories of its 2002 predecessor, and where John Carter can cost $250million and lose $200million, possibly not. Everything now is rubble, cultural bric-a-brac to be sold off to whomsoever still cares to pay.
Studios routinely defer to the whims of teenage fanboys, needing consumers with high disposable incomes and low attention spans – for only these viewers can summon the enthusiasm required for some of the shonky, derivative product being cranked out.
The superior fanboy-bait The Cabin in the Woods depends upon its attention-grabbing plot chicanery: I’m not even sure I should reveal why what sounds a standard teen-horror title appears on screen over a shot of middle-aged company men chit-chatting around a vast concrete bunker. Perhaps it’s best if you make your own connections. Yes, there’s a cabin in the woods, arrived at by the usual quotient of teen-movie jocks, cheerleaders and stoners. Lying in wait for them, however, are hidden cameras, zombies, unicorns and meat hooks – a formidable checklist of everything one might seek from a night at the Odeon.
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