Written by: Stoic Taco

Tonight was the Australian premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean 4:  On Stranger Tides at Sydney’s Event Cinemas in George Street.

Unlike the time I attended the Thor Premiere, I was not lucky enough to score tickets to attend an actual screening of the film so I don’t have a film review for you, however I do have some photos to share from the black carpet premiere.

I turned up at the cinema at around 17:40 and promptly found the best place to stand my ground in preparation of taking some photos of the celebrities walking the black carpet. It wasn’t as packed as I expected it to be, perhaps the film’s current rating on Rotten Tomatoes may have put some people off (41% rotten).

I picked a place opposite the row of media, they were all there, Channel 7, … Read More »

Greetings all,

I saw The King’s Speech a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a really good film.

Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush all deliver terrific performances and bring this little known story to life. It is involving, heartfelt, and genuinely interesting.

Today it was announced in this article (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mpaa-oks-pg-13-version-161385) that Classication and Ratings Association has agreed to the Weinstein Co’s proposal to re-release the film with a PG-13 rating instead of the original R rating in an effort to make it more appealing to kids and teens. This means that the original R rated version will be removed from the cinemas and replaced with the lower rated version.

Why was the original version rated so highly the first time?

Swearing.

No extreme violence. No graphic sex scenes. No brutal and confronting images. Simply swearing.

Director Tom Hooper has previously said that … Read More »

Greetings all,

I saw The King’s Speech a couple of weeks ago and thought it was a really good film.

Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, and Geoffrey Rush all deliver terrific performances and bring this little known story to life. It is involving, heartfelt, and genuinely interesting.

Today it was announced in this article (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mpaa-oks-pg-13-version-161385) that Classication and Ratings Association has agreed to the Weinstein Co’s proposal to re-release the film with a PG-13 rating instead of the original R rating in an effort to make it more appealing to kids and teens. This means that the original R rated version will be removed from the cinemas and replaced with the lower rated version.

Why was the original version rated so highly the first time?

Swearing.

No extreme violence. No graphic sex scenes. No brutal and confronting images. Simply swearing.

Director Tom Hooper has previously said that … Read More »