http://www.ultraculture.co.uk The UK's Greatest Movie Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I keep putting off this review. I'm no good at writing about clever movies. Double Take is an 80-minute montage film that juxtaposes footage of Cold War-era newsreel footage with clips from Alfred Hitchcock's numerous television appearances in the 50s and 60s and also a surreal newly-shot sequence  in which Hitchcock ... http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2622-a-clever-film-for-clever-people.htm brightcove.createExperiences(); Is it just me or... has Mike Myers forgotten how to do the Shrek voice? is the whole alternate timeline thing a bit 2009? is the Puss in Boots character way past its best? have they totally given up pretending its a comedy? could the mere existence of Shrek Forever After signal the downfall of ... http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2626-shrek-forever-after.htm Last night I watched The House of the Devil, the indie horror movie that all the cool kids have been talking about recently. Made with an incredible degree of authenticity in the style of early-80s haunted house movies, House of the Devil has all the Walkmans, grainy cinematography and retro promotional ... http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2650-the-house-of-the-devil-review.htm The poster has turned up for Chris Morris' upcoming terrorism satire Four Lions and it's unspeakably shit. Talk about phoning it in; the typeface alone makes me want to throw my Day Today DVDs straight out the window. On the plus side, I've been sent it in such ludicrously high resolution that ... http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2619-poster-four-lions.htm brightcove.createExperiences(); This is definitely a step up from the fucking awful poster. I still have my reservations about Four Lions though. http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2625-four-lions-trailer.htm Although, admittedly, the sketch set an impossible standard. http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2647-not-as-good-as-the-sketch.htm There are only a certain number of times you can look at low-res camera phone snaps of the new Scott Pilgrim poster (currently on display at ShoWest) before the reflections, lack of colour definition and warped perspective start to get annoying. We thought we'd do a sketch instead. [If you still want ... http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2616-heres-a-rough-sketch-of-the-scott-pilgrim-poster.htm Look at all this crap. Look at that pathetic rush-release tie-in book. Look at those completely worthless 'lenticular art cards'. Look at that superfluous second disc with nothing but a couple of ropey old featurettes on it about the revolutionary filmmaking process we've all seen described at length on a million awful Oscar ... http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2606-avatar-blu-ray.htm brightcove.createExperiences(); There's an outside chance that this is going to be the best thing ever. At the very least, it'll be the second best thing ever. http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2590-tron-2.htm We were interested to find that the Russian poster for She's Out Of My League uses the 1 to 5+ attractiveness scale rather than the traditional 1 to 10 found on the US version. The new ratings also indicate that in Russia, Jay Baruchel is only considered 40% less attractive than ... http://www.ultraculture.co.uk/2586-shes-out-of-my-league-posters.htm