![Another-Day presents: Why We Love ‘Fast & Furious 6’ [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/fast-furious-6-paul-walker-jordana-brewster-201x201.jpg)
So here we are, after almost a decade of gear-shifting genius and 6 – SIX!!! – Fast & Furious movies, each one with its own crazy flavour. The Another-Day team made the trip to the M-Net Movies premiere of Fast & Furious 6 a while back. It’s a franchise so close to our hearts we decided to do a special jam review to celebrate it.
![Baz Luhrmann Works Wonders In ‘The Great Gatsby’ [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Great-Gatsby1-201x201.jpg)
I only just read The Great Gatsby for the first time because I wanted to be intimate with someone. Or so the story goes. I’ve owned a copy for 9 years but once I figured out all my teachers and lecturers wanted was a recitation of the notes they’d given me, I became less interested in reading set works.
![‘Oblivion’ Is Like a Rollercoaster at Lusito Land [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Oblivion_4-201x201.jpg)
The first I heard about Oblivion was Jordan getting all sweaty about a new movie starring Tom Cruise and set in the future. The only five words I needed to hear were: “Tom”, “Cruise”, “future”, “apocalypse” and (um) “scifi” and I was sold. Images of The Booze Cruise slaughtering aliens with the passion of Jerry Maguire, flying futuristic vehicles with the mad skills of Maverick and using technology like he was still stuck in Minority Report all danced through my head.
![‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Is The Biggest, Dumbest, Best Thing Ever [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Cobra-Commander-201x201.jpg)
As you may have heard before, there are a handful of things Hollywood can do to guarantee my butt in a movie theatre seat. Chief among them at the moment is finding a spot for The Rock in their major franchises. Seriously, Fast & Furious was already doing well as a franchise when they got Justin Lin into the director’s chair, but they improved the movies by about a quarter mile at a time when they got Dwayne Johnson on set.
![‘Jack The Giant Slayer’ Sucks The Fun Out of Fairy Tales [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jack-201x201.jpg)
Last night I attended M-Net Movies’ Silver Screening premiere of Jack The Giant Slayer, another in Hollywood’s endless slate of weird fairy tale adaptations. Remember this follows only two weeks after my Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters review, and came out the week after Oz The Great & Powerful (which I have yet to see but am still super-excited for).
![The Surprising Complexity of ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/death-of-superman-201x201.jpg)
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is pretty much what it sounds like. A modern “dark” spin on a classic kids’ fairytale; a chance to rework a classic moral parable for kids – in which the moral is, I guess, “don’t trust your stepmom and your dad is probably a total pussy”.
![‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ Is Just The Worst Day Ever [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/die-hard-4-201x201.jpg)
To say I was extremely excited for A Good Day To Die Hard is to severely understate the degree to which a human being can actually become excited to see an old, bald man shoot people for hours. It’s not just that I love Bruce Willis. It’s that I love old school action heroes like his character John McClane, who solve all their problems by straight-up kicking them out of the top floor window of the Nakatomi Plaza.
![No Really, Nas Saw ‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2′ [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Breaking-Dawn-201x201.jpg)
I’m not sure how to explain the story of how I ended up at a Twilight movie on opening night. My, um, relationship with the series has been complicated from the very beginning. I’d heard all the stories of sparkling vampires and how heavy breathing was used as a stand-in for actual romance back when the first one came out, but in the spirit of objective reporting, I sat through the first Twilight via an illegally downloaded copy copy a friend brought over.
![‘Gandu’ is A Loser, An Asshole and A Trip Through Surreality [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Gandu-3-201x201.jpg)
For most people, our traditional experience with Indian cinema is through Bollywood’s melodramatic pop operas that homage an apparently safer time in American cinema when kissing happened off-screen and sex was suggested by a cigarette. Even when Bollywood pushes its boundaries into the realm of the action movie, or the drama, it very rarely stretches into realms of controversy that indie cinema allows for.
![Fascism = Heroism in ‘Dredd’ [Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Dredd3-201x201.jpeg)
Welcome to Century21. We’re being dipped in superhero comic book stories like it’s chocolate and we’re absolutely loving it. We’d swim an Olympic pool filled with hero myth-pop today if it meant we had something to talk about at a bar, or we’d slate it mercilessly for the sake of being able to have a countercultural opinion fueled by disinterest that’s deader than the Dodo.