We’ve written about this a million times before but once again, we couldn’t be more excited about the upcoming Steven Soderbergh filmatron The Informant!

Apart from the incredible trailer, the incredible punctuation in the title and the incredible incredibleness of the whole affair, we also got quite worked up about this low res poster that came out a few weeks ago.

Anyway, the full quality version is now up and running and here it is (click to enlarge):

We also got sent the UK poster which you can see here:

Q: Which one is better?
A: Quite obviously the first one. Even if it’s a bit of a rip off of The 40 Year Old Virgin.

Orphan is ‘the latest in a long line’ of horror films about scary kids.

It is not at all a good film but its also not the worst 122 minutes of moving image I’ve ever seen in my life. You might want to compare it favourably to The Uninvited, of which it is reminiscent but also superior.

Then again, it isn’t difficult to be superior to The Uninvited and I spent most of the film wondering how on Earth they got talented individuals like Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga on board.

Optimum are very eager that journalists (including the blogs) DO NOT reveal the movie’s twist ending but as we all know, Ultra Culture is not in the business of bowing to corporate pressure and if we want to reveal plot details, we damn well will.

So here it is. Highlight the hidden text in the following sentence if you think you’re man enough.

The twist ending of the movie Orphan is really crap.

Take that censorship!

Just in case you haven’t already read it everywhere else, the world premiere of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox will open this year’s London Film Festival on Wednesday 14th October.

With any luck I’ll be going to the festival again this year and although I don’t like Wes Anderson and could think of 20-30 films I’d rather see instead, I did like this seemingly sincere little quote from Wes that came with the press release:

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a British film – based on a Roald Dahl book, set in the UK, produced in the UK – and so I am especially pleased to have been invited to be the opening night movie of this year’s London Film Festival. We had a wonderful experience at the LFF with my previous film, and I am eagerly looking forward to introducing Fantastic Mr. Fox to the world in this wonderful venue.

How nice.

Since yesterday, when I posted this, I’ve had a couple more getaway bus movies sent in by ‘loyal readers’.

They are, of course, so obvious that I am now deeply ashamed for going with such a recent choice.

GETAWAY BUS 1: THE ITALIAN JOB (sent in by Mike)

GETAWAY BUS 2: SWORDFISH (sent in by Marie)

Thanks chaps, keep up the good work.

Figure 1
This is a recent print campaign for Nissan. It features the slogan ‘Name one classic movie that has a getaway bus‘.

Figure 2
This is a frame from the opening scene of last year’s The Dark Knight, which was widely recognised as an instant classic, in which Heath Ledger’s Joker makes his getaway from a bank robbery in a school bus.