All-women shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award This year’s BBC’s National Short Story Award will be an all female affair after the shortlist revealed that, for the first time, only women are in the running to win the award. The award, which celebrates the best of the contemporary British short story, is one of the most prestigious for a single short story with the winning author...
I saw Good earlier this year, a movie directed by Vicente Amorim and starring Vigo Mortensen as one John Halder, a professor of literature in a German university in the 1930s. It's based on the play of the same name by Cecil Philip Taylor. Before proceeding let me just say that I have a particular interest in the process of moral corruption, the manner in which people are compromised by association...
Check out the movie poster for GREEN ZONE starring Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson, Amy Ryan, and directed by Paul Greengrass. Green Zone Synopsis: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed [...]
TV While I was researching that last post, I came across what might well be the most utterly, amazingly bonkers blog post about Doctor Who I've ever seen. After some YouTube videos, Marc offers his vision for Season 32 of the series . Firstly some casting: The Doctor: 1st choices – Emma Thompson and Jason Isaacs (tie) 2rd choice – Bill Nighy 3rd choice – Joanna Lumley Companions:...
Universal Pictures have just released first poster for “Green Zone”, upcoming war movie directed by Paul Greengrass. Synopsis: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one [...]
Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. This is a movie about a taxi/limo driver, played by Jackie...
Cyrus Thatcher was a teenager from Reading who joked that his atrocious spelling was typical of a young infantryman. Yet this Remembrance Sunday his words will echo out across a West End theatre alongside those of the noted poet Wilfred Owen – another soldier who died in battle. Actor Jason Isaacs, famed for his roles in [...]
Come time travelling with Film Weekly as this week's edition ranges over the state of the British film industry in the noughties to the funny side of life under a dictator in Romania in the 80s, also taking in a review of a coming-of-age tale set in 60s London. First up, Jason Solomons goes behind the scenes at the unveiling of the nominees for the British Independent Film awards and discusses the...
Yesterday, Universal Pictures debuted the domestic trailer for Green Zone , and now the international trailer is online as well. You can watch it using the player below! Directed by Paul Greengrass, the thriller stars Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Amy Ryan, Brendan Gleeson, Jason Isaacs and Khalid Abdalla. You can learn more about the film, opening March 12th, by going here .
Please upgrade your browser A thriller about a pair of CIA agents on the trail of certain Weapons of Mass Destruction and a foreign correspondent following their mission. US Release Date: 12 March 2010 Starring: Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson Directed by: Paul Greengrass Genre: Drama | War Related Posts:Old DogsThe Men Who Stare at GoatsThe Spy [...]
The trailer for Iraq War film “Green Zone” has debuted. “Green Zone” synopsis: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site [...]
After delaying the release for a few months, Universal has finally debuted the first official trailer for “Green Zone”, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon, Jason Isaacs, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson and Amy Ryan. The film is set in the early days of the Iraq War, with Damon leading a team of Army inspectors [...]
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