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Oxford fest full of indie premieres
The Oxford International Film Festival will debut April 5-8 with 77 independent films screened over four days, including more than a dozen U.S., Ohio and world premieres. The festival is a first for Southwest Ohio. Among the highlights: [b]the U.S. premiere of "Wrath...
Burns love life movie revived by actor’s success as a Spartan
SCOTLAND'S national bard owes a posthumous debt to one of the bloodiest war films ever made. The phenomenal success of the film 300 - which dramatises a battle between a small contingent of Spartan warriors and a huge Persian army 2,500 years ago - is good news for...
‘300’ channels comic book genre
Attempting to sum up Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's visually stunning masterpiece, 300 with one word is impossible. Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.; Words like epic and brilliant quickly come to mind when one first...
300: An ‘adult’ entertainer
Finally, here’s a movie that manages to upstage all the fight scenes ever shot digitally, be it like those found in the Matrix or the Lord of the Rings series. Women, metrosexuals and those who prefer knitting to rugby and boxing can have all the romantic chick flicks...
300 (Film Review)
I’VE JUST COME BACK from seeing “300” at the cinema and I’m not really sure what all the hype was about to be honest. For those that don’t know, 300 tells the story of the 300 Spartans who are alleged to have held a mountain pass at Thermopylae (also known as the...
“300” portrays epic battle
reviewer’s rating: 5 out of 5 stars After “Gladiator” was released in 2000, it immediately shot to the top of my favorite movie list, and I consider it the best epic movie of the last decade (yes, even better than “Lord of the Rings,” sorry fans). Ever since, others...
Butler’s slice of the action
GERARD BUTLER likes to be called Gerry. It's what his friends call him and since moving to America, he isn't fond of the way the Yanks pronounce his full name. Gerry suits the tall, handsome Scottish actor, who is renowned for being laid back and gregarious - that...
Movie Review: Yet Another 300 Review (aka I Didn’t Like 300!)
Let me shout this from the very top of the review, as the doomed king Leonidas and his Spartans are so fond of doing: I DIDN'T ENJOY 300! There, I've said it. I can hide my controversial opinion no longer. An army of fans - enough to put the fear of God in old Xerxes...
Spartan Spittle
[i]Thanks to missVictoria for the article![/i] Intensity to the power of 300 A conversation between 300 writer/director Zack Snyder and Gerard Butler, who plays King Leonidas, may have gone something like this: Butler: “What’s my motivation again?” Snyder: “You’re...
Pecs and violence
[i]Thanks to Dragon Slayer for the article![/i] Take the most fearsome fighters in history, give them the best abs of all time and get Zack ‘Dawn Of The Dead’ Snyder to direct. In 300, the blood is spilled in slow motion and the bodies are piled high. Demetrios...
300 slashes, spears theaters
Children exiled into the wilderness to fend for themselves, men who pride themselves on killing others, and a king who is fanatically obsessed with warfare – Welcome to Sparta! In 480 B.C., 300 Spartans fought against thousands of Persians in the Battle of...
and all the king’s mean
Directed by Zach Snyder Starring Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, and Rodrigo Santoro Zack Snyder's screen adaptation of Frank Miller's 300 is a high octane, testosterone driven tour de force that just may be the best action flick you'll ever see. It makes every other war...
‘300’ retells battle in stylish ‘war opera’
Finally, here is a movie that will have people cheering at beheadings more than a French mob. �300� is of a new breed of film � the cinematic graphic novel � that was first brought to the big screen in Frank Miller�s �Sin City.� It is a movie with no sets, no...
300: brutal, inaccurate, awesome
Gerard Butler plays the fericiously stubborn King Leonidas who valiently leads 300 of his bravest fellow Spartans to a "glorious" demise on the agrandized battlefield of Thermopylae. In case anyone's been living under a rock the past few weeks, 300 is now in theaters...
Movie Review: ‘300’
If definitive proof is ever required that special effects have improved the quality of movies, you need look no further than 300 . A marvel of modern movie-making, such a stunning piece of art could only have been realized thanks to the advancements in technology that...
‘300’ Is A Blood-Splattering Fun Time
The film adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel "Sin City" took the world by storm in 2005, and now the adaptation of Miller's "300" is quickly becoming the movie of the moment. "300" delivers with epic larger-than-life performances and stunning visuals taken...
Film review: 300
Looking for blood and gore - this is just the film for you. Want any genuine feeling and you'll be disappointed. In media studies (something some Government ministers think is a waste of time), there is a phenomenon called desensitisation, which is when people, faced...
Kurt Blasts Escape Remake
March 22, 2007 - The news that New Line Cinema is remaking Escape From New York -- and have cast 300 Gerard Butler as Snake Plissken -- hasn't exactly met with universal approval from many fans of the original film. And one of those fans is the man who starred in it,...
300 – Spectacle Triumphs Over Silliness
Much has already been written about this so I’m not going to give it the full review treatment. I’ve been looking forward to seeing it since the first news began trickling out way back. Now I have, and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s overlong, very silly in parts,...
A TRULY EPIC ADVENTURE
A TRULY EPIC ADVENTURE Scot Gerard Butler shines in Hollywood's latest swords and sandals blockbuster 300 **** 15 LOOK up "spartan" in the dictionary, and it describes conditions that are "simple and sometimes harsh". It might also refer you to the ancient city of...