| Miley slammed over sexy new video MILEY Cyrus slammed for her new sexy video trying to shed her good-girl status. news.com.au |
Vampires Suck – review Compared to this appalling spoof, Twilight is a work of genius, writes Peter BradshawThe last time I heard a film audience in such a state of silence was during Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light. Jason Friedman and Aaron Seltzer have specialised in genre spoofs such as Date Movie, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans, and now they're back with a desperately, almost fanatically unfunny version of the Twilight franchise. It's the kind of satire that could be renamed "parasitire": a movie that tries to siphon off some of the box-office cash with what is effectively a humourless knock off, a line-by-line, moment-by-moment, mickey-take without jokes – or at least very few. Matt Lanter plays Edward Sullen, the pale teen-vampire hottie, and Jenn Proske does what I admit is a nifty impression of Kristen Stewart, playing Becca, the glum girl who falls in love with him but can't have sex in case she becomes one of the undead. They gaze intensely into each other's eyes as one of the nerdy choric high-schoolers says: "Damn that overwrought unrequited teenage love!" Well, I don't want to be picky or pedantic but … "unrequited"? Was that the observational-comedy mot juste? Vampires Suck pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the original movies look inspired.Rating: 1/5ComedyTwilightScience fiction and fantasyPeter Bradshawguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Can two minutes' silence top the charts? RADIOHEAD singer Thom Yorke has "recorded" a single consisting of two full minutes of silence. news.com.au |
Don't Look Now: No 3 best horror film of all time Nicolas Roeg, 1973Nicolas Roeg's trademark non-linear approach to narrative is put to unnerving use in Don't Look Now, a haunting adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story about a couple, John and Laura Baxter (played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie), who relocate to Venice in an attempt to come to terms with the accidental death of their young daughter. And that's just the start of a film that establishes such a mood of doomy anticipation that no one who watches it can ever again negotiate the narrow, labyrinthine streets of La Serenissima without wondering if they'll catch a glimpse of a small figure in a red raincoat flitting over a shadowy bridge. Right from the opening sequence it's established that John, an art restorer, possesses the gift of clairvoyance – but, as shown time and again, he fails to act on or even recognise it – with tragic consequences. Images of water, the colour red and broken glass repeatedly intersect in a kaleidoscope of ominous foreshadowing. The presence of a serial killer at work in Venice doesn't so much turn the film into a psycho-thriller as contribute to the backdrop of watery gloom.Don't Look Now was well received by critics and achieved a certain amount of notoriety thanks to rumours that the (for then) unusually explicit scene of lovemaking between John and Laura wasn't faked. Typically, Roeg intercut the act itself with footage of the couple getting dressed for dinner. Pino Donaggio, who would go on to score some of Brian De Palma's most successful movies, made his film debut with the poignant soundtrack, and the movie's final shocking reveal is one of the most famous since that of Psycho.HorrorAnne Billsonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Pop princess Kylie flirts with US success AUSSIE singer launches latest campaign to conquer American stage by announcing she will tour in April on back of latest album. news.com.au |