Henry Cavill, star of Showtime’s period drama “The Tudors,” has been given the keys to the Fortress of Solitude. The 27-year-old actor, who was on the short lists to play both Batman and Superman when those franchises were being rebooted by Christopher Nolan for “Batman Begins” and Bryan Singer for “Superman Returns,” will finally get [...]
Tom Hooper’s period drama about King George VI and his debilitating speech impediment reigned supreme with 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter), Best Director, Best Cinematography (Danny Cohen) and Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler). “True Grit” came in second place [...]
What an intense cinema moment we seem to be living through. The general public is getting as excited as the critics about movies. Here in the UK, at least, everyone seems to be making the effort to see The King’s Speech, and it is hard to find someone with a word to say against it. [...]
The most common mistake made by first-time directors is to cram every film school trick and cutting edge idea into that debut film. A bloated, pretentious, insufferable and flashy effort is often the result. On the other hand, a great director’s first film is rarely representative of his/her full repertoire of skills and ideas. Even [...]
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who has stirred global controversy by releasing classified documents and communication wires between top government officials, will get his story told on the big screen. Variety reports that Australian reporter Andrew Fowler’s upcoming biography, “The Most Dangerous Man in the World,” which chronicles the anti-secrecy advocate’s childhood through to present day, [...]
The theater doors blast open, and Quentin Tarantino’s band of Jewish soldiers bursts in with fury, guns first. Showering the audience—once their oppressors—in a rain of bullets, the gunmen stand triumphantly on a balcony that deteriorates as it is licked by flames. The viewers fall to their knees at the sight of the screen’s collapse. [...]
Batman may have found himself a new love interest, and a new baddy to defend Gotham against once again. On Wednesday, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Anne Hathaway (“Rachel Getting Married”) has been cast as Selina Kyle (Catwoman) in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises.” The “Memento” and “Inception” director will be back to helm [...]
For months, millions of fans around the globe have been wondering, ‘Will James Bond return?’ Now they can finally rejoice; his licence to kill has not been revoked. After his involuntary hiatus, the world’s most famous secret agent will make his comeback on the silver screen. According to an announcement by the producers, the long-delayed [...]
There are a couple of reasons why everyone should watch “Hævnen”. The first is that is a beautiful film, a beauteous film, with all the slightly otherworldly aloofness that the word suggests. The second is that by about this time next year, Mikael Persbrandt will be a household name and by golly, you don’t want [...]
In last week’s blog I talked about the experience of seeing a film with low expectations, and the potential this has to skew one’s judgement, making a surprisingly good film seem even better than it really is. I had the opposite experience that same week when I went to see Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who [...]
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‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
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