Transpontine (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Quite a lot of activity going on locally related to the Transition Towns movement. In case you don't know what that means - and I'm new to this game myself - 'the Transition Movement is about communities deciding they can't hang around for governments to act on climate change and peak oil, but they need to start building up local resilience to prepare for an era of ever-rising fuel prices, fuel shortages...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Fanny Armstrong; Pete Postlethwaite. Rating:
Dolphin Hotel (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Thanks to Tyne Dock Green for this gem from the BBC. Presumably London-resident Daniel Radcliffe will be the first arrested if there's a sudden outbreak of violence among men in long black capes, and Pete Postlethwaite's bricking it lest the IRA resume their mainland bombing campaign.
bloggo chicago (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
directed by John Moore As many of you know, on Friday nights in our household we order out and watch a movie. Since it was just Halloween weekend, I wanted to see something that would really creep me out. I don’t like watching scary movies by myself; Brian doesn’t really like watching them at [...]
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Can you believe it’s been nearly a decade since the start of the only major theatre awards voted for by you? The nominations phase in the tenth annual Whatsonstage.com Awards, the “theatregoers’ choice”, opens today, Monday 2 ...
DVD Movie Maniac (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Print: Good - Sound: Good - Label: Universal - Year: 2000 - Cover: Good - Format: 16:9 - Length: 1h29m/1h24m - Before: No - Again: No - Price: £1 - Rating: 6/10. In Rat , Hubert Flynn ( Pete Postlethwaite ), is a Dublin bread delivery man who loves a pint of Guinness, a bet on the horses and his wife Conchita - in that order. So when he comes home late from the pub one evening and changes into...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Highlighting the plight of Japan's dolphins could reduce the prospects of relief for other suffering creatures Why would you pay good money to be told what to think? Because you like it, apparently. Al Gore's chart-flipping , Morgan Spurlock's burger-munching and Michael Moore 's stentorian hectoring seem to have inspired something of a taste for big-screen indoctrination. Audiences may not have been...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Organizers said up to 800 people took part in the day-long protests, which culminated with a “green carpet” screening of “The Age of Stupid,” a British drama-documentary-animation film about climate change. The film stars Oscar-nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in a devastated world in 2055. He watches “archive” footage from 2008 and asks why...
FilmoFilia (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Today we have 14 new hi-res photos from the upcoming “Solomon Kane” movie. It tells the heroic story of a savage warrior in 16th Century England who seeks redemption for a lifetime of sins by renouncing violence to live a life of purity, only to find himself compelled to pick up his sword once again to [...]
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
UL (University of Limerick) 7:30pm The Age of Stupid (2009) is a film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel and founder of 10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. The Executive Producer is John Battsek, producer of One Day in September. The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The Guardian's quick carbon calculator shows the steps you can take to reduce your carbon emissions You've calculated your carbon footprint. You know if you have footprints from clown shoes (nearly 20 tonnes, like the US) or baby ones (just over 1 tonne, like the average Indian). Now it's time to try cutting your emissions down to size, hopefully bringing them towards the magic 3.1 tonne figure that...
Miami Student (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
What do Al Gore, President Barack Obama and Miami University sophomore Max Blaushild have in common? Their thoughts on global warming. This fall, Blaushild started the Miami University Copenhagen Committee (MUCC) to educate the Miami community on the immediate effects of climate change.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Thanks to dimwit voiceovers and preachy tutting, green films are taking a beating at the box office. But a new film about the slaughter of dolphins in Japan may change all that We've already seen one of the unforeseen effects of global warming. The eco-documentary has become as much of a staple of the cinema schedules as the duff geezer flick or the drippy indie romcom. Round they come, the green...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Today is Blog Action Day and the focus of 2009’s Blog Action Day is Climate Change. We obviously care a lot about about climate change here at TakePart and often blog about it and what we can all do to make our planet a healthier one. I thought for my part today I would share 5 films with you that we’ve written about before and that all discuss climate change and what we can do to make...
Inhabitat (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Today is Blog Action Day, and this year’s theme is Climate Change – a topic near and dear to our hearts here at Inhabitat. To kick things off, we took a look back over last the past year’s posts and pulled together a list of our top 5 favorite climate change stories to hit the [...]
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