The reason I get so excited about incredibly well made fantastical movies is because my imagination isn't vivid enough to allow me to picture elaborate, epic vistas in my mind’s eye. I love the escapism you get from a great sci-fi or fantasy novel but I don’t even bother trying to imagine all the [...]
Anderson’s films provoke a reaction in people. Me? I don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks about ‘The Life Aquatic’ or ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ or even ‘Bottle Rocket’. You can criticise his films until the cows come home but they will always be fantastically well made, entertaining movies that are an inspiration to many and [...]
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Best director Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen [...]
Ok, this isn't fresh news, George Lucas mentioned it 18 months ago, but it's still happening. Up to 100 hours of Star Wars TV will be set in the 19 fictional years between the two film trilogies. It's set to start filming soon and hit screens in 2008. According to reports, pre-production may well already [...]
'Letters from Iwo Jima' is the second of Clint’s battle of Iwo Jima films and I can certainly see why it has had a lot of Oscar buzz. Sadly I haven’t seen Flags of Our Fathers (which is apparently Saving Private Ryan for 45 mins then Uncle Sam propaganda drama about ‘that’ photo) but this [...]
Ok, the world is literally teetering on the edge of apocalypse but the big story of January is always who will win the little gold guys ™
Here are my informed predictions. Some soothsayer shit.
Best film nominees:
The Departed – it’s solid, entertaining, made money and Scorsese
Dreamgirls – I can’t be bothered to [...]
I don’t like to be unfairly negative but does anyone else have a bad feeling about the big budget blue screen adaptation of Frank Millers Sparta graphic novel ‘300’? Probably not (culturalelite obviously disagrees with me ). On paper it sounds great: a big budget film about the Spartans (those dudes were frikkin [...]