LOOPER REVIEW!!! ****/****..!!!

Dir: Rian Johnson; stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Looper is a brash choice for a curtain-raiser – supposedly the first science fiction movie to open the Toronto film festival in 37 years, and I'm guessing the first Bruce Willis flick, too. The director is Rian Johnson, stepping up the budget and the decibels after his ingenious calling-card Brick (2005) and snazzily-coutured caper The Brothers Bloom (2008).

The high-concept premise is a grabber, too. We're in Kansas in 2044, where time-travel has yet to be invented. 30 years later, if you want to off someone, you send them back in time and have a paid assassin do your dirty work. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, one of these so-called "Loopers", whose stockpiling of blood money comes at a cost: when the corporation who pays them decides enough's enough, their own future self will be sent back for death by blunderbuss.

Gordon-Levitt's face is the first really odd thing about the film. He's like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, only uglier. A prosthetically bulked-up nose and reshaped eyebrows tip us the wink. In time, the character will be Willis – there's even a funny little moment with him checking his hairline. He doesn't look like a young Bruce Willis, though, so much as a gene-splicing experiment gone a bit screwy. It's a creepier effect than probably intended.

Once Willis has arrived, briskly dodged his own execution, and both young and old Joes go on the run from weary boss Abe (Jeff Daniels) and his shotgun-wielding goons, the film starts to devolve into a fairly disjointed futuristic time-travel chase thriller with the trappings of plenty you'll have seen. There's a bit of Twelve Monkeys, more than a dash of Terminator 2. Johnson has novel conceits stuffed right up to his elbows, but they don't always feel organic to the story, and there's a growing whiff of illogical balderdash to his whole plot: it's as if the script was started by Christopher Nolan and completed in hair-pulling fits and starts by M. Night Shyamalan. Why – given that the time-travel end of it can be banished to any future point – isn't the story set now? I suspect the answer is that we don't have cool enough hoverbikes yet.

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Every decade, the British film monthly Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously."

• Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted number one in the five Sight & Sound critics' polls from 1962 to 2002. A separate Sight & Sound poll of established film directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed Citizen Kane at the top in 1992 and 2002. Citizen Kane was also selected as number one in a Village Voice and in a Time Out critics' poll. It was listed as the greatest American film by theAmerican Film Institute in both the first (1998) and second (2007) versions of its 100 Years... 100 Movies list.

• Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll, in 1952. It also came number seven in 1962 and number six in 2002. It also came number ten in the 2012 directors' poll.

• Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane. Tokyo Story also appeared in the Sight & Sound critics' poll at third place in 1992, fifth in 2002, and third in 2012. Tokyo Story also topped a 1998 critics' poll conducted by Asian film magazine Cinemaya, where it was followed by Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955) and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953) tied at second place.

• Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane.It also came number 7 in 1982, number 4 in 1992, and number two in 2002. In the directors' poll, it came number 6 in 1992 and 2002, and number 7 in 2012.

• La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) by director Jean Renoir was named the greatest film by the French film magazine Positifin 1991. It also holds the second slot in the Village Voice poll, and is the only movie to have appeared in every one of the Sight & Sound polls.

• The Searchers (1956) is the film most often mentioned in a poll of the favorite films of directors by German language Steadycam magazine in 1995.

Leonardo DiCaprio's Great Gatsby film delayed to 2013

Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of The Great Gatsby will not be released until next summer, Warner Bros has announced.

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The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, had been due for release on Christmas Day in the US and the day after in the UK.

However Warner Bros said it was pushing the film back to ensure it "reaches the largest audience possible".

The release date puts the film, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's novel, out of contention for next year's Oscars.

A Christmas release would have pitted the film against other highly anticipated movies including Les Miserables, Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher and the first instalment of The Hobbit trilogy.

It will now battle against summer blockbusters like Iron Man 3, Star Trek 2, Monsters University and new Superman film Man of Steel.

A summer release also makes Luhrmann's film a much less-favoured contender for the 2014 awards season. Film studios generally line up Oscar contenders for December and January, which is when Academy voters receive their ballot papers.

Warner Bros gave no explanation for the delay of The Great Gatsby, simply saying it wanted to make sure "this unique film reaches the largest audience possible".

However, two unnamed sources close to the production told the LA Times that the extra time would allow Luhrmann "more time to finish its extensive 3D effects and a planned all-star soundtrack".

"Based on what we've seen, Baz Luhrmann's incredible work is all we anticipated and so much more," Dan Fellman, Warner Bros's president of domestic distribution, said in a statement.

"It truly brings Fitzgerald's American classic to life in a completely immersive, visually stunning and exciting way.

"We think moviegoers of all ages are going to embrace it."

International distribution president Veronika Kwan Vandenberg added: "The responses we've had to some of the early sneak peeks have been phenomenal, and we think The Great Gatsby will be the perfect summer movie around the world."

Tobey Maguire and Isla Fisher also star in Luhrmann's adaptation of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel.

Django Unchained..."D" Silent...

Django Unchained is an upcoming Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Kerry Washington, and is scheduled to be released on December 25, 2012 in the United States and Canada. Principal photography started in California in November 2011, Wyoming in February 2012, and at the a National Historic Landmark Evergreen Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, outside of New Orleans in March 2012.Django Unchained is set in the Deep South, and follows Django (Foxx), a freed slave who treks across America with Dr. King Schultz (Waltz), a German dentist turned bounty hunter. The title and setting of the film appear to be inspired by the 1960s spaghetti western Django and its many unofficial sequels, with original Django star Franco Nero having a cameo.

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Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave living in the Deep South after having been separated from his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). When Django is held for a slave auction, Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), a bounty hunter, frees Django from his vicious masters, the Speck brothers (James Remar and James Russo) and gives him the option of hunting down and killing the Brittle Brothers, a ruthless gang of killers whom only Django has seen. In return, Schultz will free Django from slavery completely and help rescue Broomhilda from the plantation of the charming but ruthless Francophile owner, Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Looper Upcoming Sci-Fi Action Flick

Looper is an upcoming American science fiction film directed by Rian Johnson with a time travel plot. The film stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. Filming began in Louisiana on January 24, 2011.The film combines strong corporate influences for dealing with criminal organizations, technology for the time-travel machine itself, as well as film noir, due to the film's dark, gritty, and bloody plot. It has been selected to be the opening film of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

n a futuristic gangland in the year 2047, a 25-year-old killer named Joseph Simmons (Gordon-Levitt) works for a mafia company in Kansas City as a "Looper." Loopers kill and dispose of agents sent by their employers from corporate headquarters in Shanghai from the year 2077. Loopers are foot soldiers, paid on the terms that all targets must never escape. When Simmons recognizes his target as a future version of himself (Willis), his older self escapes after incapacitating him. The resulting failure of his job causes his employers to come after him, forcing him to fight for his life as he hunts his older self.

The Bourne Legacy

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'Disappointing': Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz in The Bourne Legacy. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

Reeking of a desperate attempt to keep a valuable franchise afloat, this disappointing fourth Bourne film is written and directed by the screenwriter of the preceding trilogy, a specialist in conspiracy thrillers. The idea is that the military-industrial complex, against which Eisenhower warned in his 1961 farewell address as president, has been running numerous experiments to produce super agents like Bourne to fight in the cold war and the "war on terror". Having been exposed in The Bourne Ultimatum (partly by a Guardian journalist), the chilly super patriots running these projects must close down shop and terminate with extreme prejudice its staff and their creations. Prominent on the list is agent Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a leading product of the clandestine programme Outcome, along with the now guilt-ridden research scientist (Rachel Weisz), who knows him only by a number.

To obtain the special drugs that keep Cross alive, they journey to the Philippines, where a big pharma company manufactures this elixir, and where the film pushes the envelope in Manila with the most drawn-out chase in all the Bourne pictures. It lasts 15 minutes, crossing rooftops on foot and speeding through traffic jams in cars and on bikes, but it's not a patch on the infinitely cheaper, far more ingenious seven-minute handheld chase around Hong Kong in Wayne Wang's low-budget 1989 thriller Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper is Expensive. Finally Renner and Weisz sail into the sunset, presumably heading towards Bourne on the Fourth of July, Bourne Free and the ultimate prequel, Bourne Yesterday.