Movie Minesweeper - The Pink Laminate Edition
- King of Kong hero Steve Wiebe is making a world record attempt this Sunday in Austin and you can be there.
- Stephen Daldry is back. His next, The Reader, is to star Nicole Kidman and Ralph Fiennes and was scripted by David Hare. This sounds like cinema for people who don't really like cinema let alone understand it. These sort of smug, vainglorious 'prestige' productions are a blot on the landscape of film. Alfred Hitchcock, Alan Clarke and Alexander Mackendrick are turning in their graves.
- The former Louisiana film comissioner has been charged with taking bribes by 'abusing a series of tax credits'.
- Dan Fogler has been explaining his upcoming turn as Hitchcock and how the film has a lot in common with Shakespeare - or, for that matter, George Lucas - In Love.
- Fangoria has the specs for both Fido and Captivity on DVD. I think the DVD audience are going to help Fido become a small cult; I think Captivity is going to slowly fade away. Not having seen either, I can't comment on how fair this is.
- The Hannah Montana tie-in videogame for Nintendo DS looks too good to be true. How come such an accomplished title got linked in with such a throw away license?
- Paul Bettany and Thomas Kretschmann are the latest signatories on the heap of Young Victoria contracts.
- Have you been exploring the new Blade Runner website yet? Why not?
- Is the fiction film version of King of Kong going to star Johnny Depp and Greg Kinnear? Or Ed Norton and Nathan Fillion? It's going to be some combination of that little lot, if director Seth Gordon gets his way.
- How old is Robert Redofrd anyway?
- Paul Maguigan has cast Djimon Honsou, Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning in Push, his thriller about psi-powered ex-pats in Hong Kong. What a thoroughly uninteresting propsect.
- Harrison Ford's deleted scene from ET has turned up online in full-on blur-o-vision.
- Miyazaki wanted the theme tune to Ponyo to be something "which all generations can sing" and, of course, he got his wish. Apparently, the lyrics repeat "Pony-o, Pony-o, Ponyo", in a style rather like the Totoro theme.
- Tom Tykwer's The International is to reteam him with X Filme Creative. Clive Owen, Naomi Watts and Armin Mueller Stahl are to star.
- Alex Cox makes some good points about the UK Film Council in his new column for The Guardian.
- Is the next Superman film to be pushed back to accomodate the Justice League film? Well, maybe - but I really, really hope not.
3 comments:
Why do all of these links have to be accompanied by smug commentary? Oh right, you're English.
They don't have to be accompanied by anything, but they are accompanied by something. I'm not conceding that it's smug commentary, however.
Anyway - what's your point?
Mine would be that you've been quite anti-English. Surely that's more of an issue than me expressing my own opinions on my own site?
I was certainly kidding and am very pro-English, actually. You just seem to hate on a lot of things instead of lovingly embracing them or just presenting them in a straightforward way.
It'll go something like this: INTERESTING MOVIE NEWS THAT'S WORTH GETTING EXCITED ABOUT then SMART-ASS COMMENT THAT SHITS ALL OVER POSSIBLE EXCITEMENT.
Repeat.
Don't worry, I still check the site several times a day and think you guys are doing a really great job. Just a small thought, and one I thought I'd share. (Ya limey bastards. JOKE.)
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