Lyttelton, London WH Auden, the Oxford oracle, is peeing into his washbasin. He's waiting for a rent boy to arrive in his college rooms; he's stuck over his stanzas; he looks not so much like a bag person as a crumpled plastic bag. A floor above him, Benjamin Britten, sleek as a whippet, is at the piano, with poker back and pumping arms, cajoling a young treble into song: "Oh lift your little...
Mark your calendars for January 24th, 2010 at 9:00 pm for the North American premiere of the new miniseries Emma on Masterpiece Classic on PBS. Staring Romola Garai (Atonement, Daniel Deronda) as the handsome, clever and rich heroine Emma Woodhouse, this new 3 part historical drama/comedy will run on three consecutive Sundays: January 24th (2 [...]
the fantastic mr.fox movie (book by roald dahl )opens thanksgiving day!!! yay! i get to interview mr.fox's son ash ( jason schwartzman ) tomorrow :) here's what the movie pr person told me to share with mod*mom readers: fantastic mr. fox is visionary director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop-motion techniques to tell the story of the best-selling children’s...
[ November 23, 2009 to January 10, 2010. ] Fantastic Mr. Fox Cartoon Art Museum November 23, 2009 – January 10, 2010 [ad#lb] The Cartoon Art Museum proudly presents original works of art from Twentieth Century Fox’s feature film FANTASTIC MR. FOX, scheduled for nationwide release on November 25, 2009. This exhibit features two sets from the stop motion animated film, “Flint Mine –...
TVShowsOnDVD.com reports: The BBC and distributor Warner Home Video have announced that the 4-part 2009 mini-series, Jane Austen’s Emma, will arrive on DVD this February 9th. The 2-disc set running 240 minutes will cost $34.98 SRP, and include 3 bonus Featurettes and an Interview: Emma’s Locations Emma’s Costumes Emma’s Music Emma’s Mr. Woodhouse – interview with...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released on Blu-ray and DVD on 16 November with the rest of the world. The entire ensemble cast is back for the sixth ...
Comedian Whoopi Goldberg reportedly confused the wizard from ‘Lord of the Rings’ with Harry Potter’s. Goldberg, 53, embarrassed Sir Ian McKellen, 70, when she interviewed him on the US TV panel show ‘The View’. “Are you coming back in Harry Potter?” the Daily Express quoted her as having asked McKellen. The actor was slightly irritated but he went [...]
Fantastic Mr Fox It's Dahl Good Trailers & Mo | Official Website Post- Royal Tenenbaums , Wes Anderson kept trying to make something different, but basically kept making baum clones, one on the high seas and the other in India. It pained us to do so, but after the limited Darjeeling Limited we had purty much given up on the cutesy world of WA. Enuff was certainly enuff (esp the overuse of Owen...
HELENA Bonham Carter and Guy Pearce will join Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush on historical drama The King’s Speech . They will also be joined by thesps Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall and Michael Gambon, as well as Jennifer Ehle on Tom Hooper’s drama, according to Variety. The film follows the young King George VI as he assumes the thrown in the days after the abdication of his brother, Edward....
The sixth installment of the Harry Potter series begins right where The Order of the Phoenix left off. The wizarding world is rocked by the news that "He Who Must Not Be Named" has truly returned, and the audience finally knows that Harry is "the Chosen One"--the only wizard who can defeat Lord Voldemort in the end. Dark forces loom around every corner, and now regularly attempt...