The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's ironic that Steven Soderbergh's new film should be called The Informant!, given that the director's primary tactic is to keep the audience as ill-informed as possible.
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
2012: Box Office Armageddon In the US : Roland Emmerich's fetishist disaster movie 2012 explodes into the chart at #1 with an impressive $65m (that's $19,000 at every cinema it was screening at), so looks on course to earn back its $200m budget... and festival darling PRECIOUS debuts at #3, and will likely drift downwards... also, PIRATE RADIO (aka The Boat That Rocked) proved to be a hopeless flop...
Evening Standard (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
British period pieces are regularly mocked as pretty pieces of cinema devoid of real bite. But you couldn't call Stephen Poliakoff's first film for more than a decade, Glorious 39, namby-pamby
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
How does Stephen Poliakoff get away with this stuff? Glorious 39 begins, in mildly intriguing fashion, in the run-up to the Second World War, positing an appeasement conspiracy cooked up by a bunch of toffs who believe Britain hasn't a chance against Hitler.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Stephen Poliakoff Bill Nighy Julie Christie. Rating:
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
My, my, I'm going to have to cook up a huge batch of crow to serve so many of my colleagues who responded to my prediction that "Inglourious Basterds" will win the Oscar for best picture by hurling weapons of mass destruction. Some of them not only freaked out over my "Basterds" call, they went all ballistic. Granted, many like to dismiss anything I say because of, ahem, a few bad...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Release date : November 20, 2009 Synopsis : This tense conspiracy thriller set on the eve of World War II and based on disturbing real events, focuses on ...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) : Christie was born in Chabua, Assam, India, then part of the British Empire, the first of two children of Rosemary (née Ramsden) and Frank St. John Christie. Christie's father ran the tea plantation around which Christie grew up. ... She first gained notice as Liz, the friend and would-be lover of the eponymous Billy Liar (1963) played by Tom Courtenay...
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Ritz Hotel: London: The Goddess has been immortalised on celluloid! Hallelujah! Jessica Alba, The World's Sexiest woman who claimed she'd never strip has fallen from her pedestal of purity and been snapped full-frontal and completely naked.
The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Hey, it's War... What do you think of football? The ole pigskin? The gridiron? America's game? Yeah that's great and I'd love to hear you tell me about it but I'll tell you what right now. I don't care for football. Oh I watch it, sure. But I don't care for it. I don't need it. I don't have to have it like some people. You know? That's why I don't get fantasizing about football. You hear these guys...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Gavin Hodge was a hugely fashionable hairdresser who, beginning in the London of the swinging Sixties, packed into his life an inordinate amount of drink, drugs and sex. While his claim to have bedded 2,000 women seems implausible, his frank admission that he was addicted to women had the ring of truth about it.
Among Amid While (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Here . Yes. Three other depressing stories: Sheng Keyi's story (trans. Eric Abrahamsen) 'An Inexperienced World' in the latest HEAT. Something depressing about this being the first item in the issue, but mainly it's the story itself. It's about a women 'well past thirty and possessed of a certain experience of life', which suggests to me that the author might well be under thirty ('born in the 1970s'...
P&C (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I don't usually dedicate my posts, but Randall Todd, this one's for you... The Italian actress Monica Vitti is best known for her starring roles in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura series. Her quirky face features cat-like eyes, a broad mouth and a sprinkling of freckles, while her amazing mane of hair is always just-so-sexily-toussled. Her hair is also the thing that makes her a chameleon onscreen...
Bryan Appleyard (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
'The universe looks like a put-up job.'Fred Hoyle
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