Previews for Tin Tin (IRE & UK at least) start tomorrow, and the Spielberg directed movie gets it’s premiere live this evening at 530pm GMT. So, if you didn’t get an invite, fear not. You can watch the whole thing here live at 530pmGMT / 1230pm EST / 930pm PST.

We don’t do videogames here (granted we play the ass of them) but when Indiana Jones is playing a video game influenced by none other than himself, we think you gotta see this! This is an ad from Japan for Uncharted 3. Personally, I think it’s one of the blandest, lamest ads I’ve seen in some time, but go on…click play! You know you want to!

Things are really on the move for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The Inception actor is now in talks to star in the already, super cast laden, Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino. Nothing is known of the role he might play if this all comes together but he’ll be starring alongside the likes of Christoph Waltz, Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. According to “insiders” (Hah!) JGL intends to do the movie but there seems to be a few scheduling issues in the way.



Via Variety

I’m really looking forward to seeing Hugo. Not so much because of the Brian Selznick book, but more so because of the Martin Scorsese involvement. It (and I hope) should be thrilling to see what Scorsese will do with this and in particular the style and genre of the movie, let alone what one of the finest filmmakers around will do with 3D. Hugo opens on November 23rd in the States and Ireland & UK on December 2nd.
Here’s the latest poster to turn up online for Hugo via IMPAWARDS

Synopsis:
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" concerns a 12-year-old orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in 1930 and a mystery involving the boy, his late father and a robot.

I don’t know about you, but over the last few years I’ve started carrying around some hand sanitizer. One in the car, one if the office, one at home. While I’m not a germ-a-phobe, Contagion didn’t do me any favours and if you’re anyway inclined it won’t do you any either. Stock up on the hand sanitizer.

For the last few years, the planet has had it’s fair share of “diseases” from Swine Flu, Bird Flu or even Na’Vi flu, and so on. So it was only a matter of time before someone got some cash together and made a movie about an outbreak of a deadly disease (yet again, although this time it’s a bit more close to home). That’s essentially the story too. A deadly disease is discovered with it’s origins in Hong Kong and things go from bad to worse within the first 5 minutes of the movie. People start dropping off like flies as the world is quickly almost brought to it’s knees from the outbreak as some our intrepid cast struggle to find a cure. Throw into the mix an immune Matt Damon, a conspiracy theorist blogger in the form of Jude Law and a whole bunch of other heavy hitters including Kate Winslet and Laurence Fishburn and you have what starts out as a pretty damn gripping and engaging piece of cinema.



Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Contagion grips you from the get go. Door handles, sneezing, coughing even a fan on a wall all hit you as deadly carriers of disease. It’s quite masterful the effect to be honest. Every object that could be a carrier is always in frame and blindingly obvious it can cause a problem that could kill. Couple this with a tense soundtrack and you will honestly start freaking out if someone behind you starts coughing or sneezing.  So that’s the way the movie works. Short interludes with the cast, montages, good soundtrack but after the first half, it gets a bit repetitive, and you find yourself wishing for something a bit more to happen. That’s not to say it’s a bad thing, but the effect is overused. The second half of the movie get’s a little bit predictable (as you could imagine) and the final quarter leaves enough loose ends and plot holes to make you wonder how the hell did things start out so well and end up so lacklustre. That said, there is a nice structure to the story, which starts on day 2 of the outbreak and works upwards from there, coupled with the occasional flash back of figuring out the origins.

The performances from the, let it be said, decent cast are fine.  Nothing to blow your mind or anything, but convincing enough, in particular Jude Law. Although, given there are quite a number of characters, this leads to an under utilisation of the entire cast and making a connection with any of them is a tough call.

Overall Contagion is worth a watch, and while it’s clever, it starts crumbling to pieces in the latter half, which is almost unfathomable considering the first half is so gripping. More of a common flu as opposed to a deadly disease!