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Nicki Minaj puts on 'epic' shows

Music Gossip

11 Aug 2011

Nicki Minaj wants her stage shows to be "futuristic" and "epic". The 'Check It Out' singer is supporting Britney Spears on the US leg of her 'Femme Fatale' tour and says it's important for her to put on a stunning performance which is memorable to…

Red Cliff

11 Jun 2009

Asian action auteur-turned-Hollywood hired hand John Woo hasn’t directed a film since 2003 thriller Paycheck. And Woo hasn’t been home to China to make a movie since 1992. Back behind the camera, Woo’s first Chinese film in almost 20 years is a…

An Empress and the Warriors

11 Jun 2009

A sentimental story about honour and decency, duty and obligation, Tony Ching Siu Tung’s film is perfectly well made on its own terms, and even manages moments of surprising emotion amid the lazily maudlin. When the emperor dies, his upper-crust…

Nomad

19 Feb 2009

(15) 112min (Optimum DVD retail) EPIC This might have been Kazakhstan’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, and was several years in the making, but the end result is weary with predictability. Like many a big…

Australia

11 Dec 2008

(12A) 165min Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge) gets more and more ambitious with each film he makes. With it’s sweeping vistas, debt to Gone With the Wind, World War II backdrop and romantic pairing of Nicole…

Mongol

22 May 2008

EPIC/DRAMA/HISTORY (15) 125min Life’s hard when you’re a Mongol. For Genghis Khan, starting life in 1192 as nine-year-old Temudjin (Odnyam Odsuren), the problems start when his selection of a bride is interrupted by the assassination of his father by…

There Will be Blood

14 Feb 2008

EPIC/DRAMA (15) 158min As the American industrialist Jean Paul Getty noted, ‘Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever finds it keeps it.’ It’s a notion that lone silver prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis) soon discovers when he finds black gold…

Comics - 300

Frank Miller & Lynn Varley

12 Mar 2007

EPIC Re-reading Frank Miller’s graphic novella in its landscape format hardcover edition (it was originally serialised as a five-issue comic book in 1998/99), it’s clear just how perfectly suited 300 is for the Hollywood blockbuster film…

Flags of Our Fathers

7 Dec 2006

At 76 years of age, Hollywood living legend Clint Eastwood crowns his glorious career with his most ambitious film to date. Flags of Our Fathers is not his best film, but it’s an impressively epic endeavour, the first of two grand scale films shot…