Club Jade (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
A couple months ago, the LIFE photo archive went up in Google, fully searchable. Plenty has been done with them since then, but it didn’t occur to me to look for Star Wars until today. There isn’t a ton there - the bulk of images that come up are from The Phantom Menace premiere - [...]
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
"Scrooge" (1970) is a musical retelling of Dickens' classic, "A Christmas Carol." It could be the best adaptation of the tale so far.
dooyoo newest opinions in UK / Irel (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
a new opinion on www.dooyoo.co.uk about Old Vic Theatre in general written by kevin121 Although I don't consider myself to be a theatre buff, this is one of the theatres I have been to the most often. The main draw of this theatre originally was the curiosity of having a Hollywood actor (Kevin Spacey) become Creative Director of a ...
"Let's Not Talk About Movies" (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
" The Lavender Hill Mob " ( Charles Crichton , 1951) Light-hearted Ealing Studios "caper" film starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway as two renters in a Lavender Hill brownstone, one a bored bank auditor, the other a sculptor with dreams of greater things. The two men have enough in common that a shared light-bulb goes off: why not pool their common knowledge and carry-out the perfect crime?...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
DVD Video Review: Anthony Nield takes a look at Eureka's recent budget release of The Horse's Mouth, an eccentric comedy written by and starring Alec Guiness.
Margaret Ntifo's Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
What would you do if you had nothing left to loose, and nothing to be afraid of? I recently re-watched ‘Last Holiday’, the 2006 remake of the 1950 Alec Guinness film with the same name. (Better late than never, huh?)...
Booksville (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Shashi Tharoor: Gritty portrait of real India on reel Movies made by westerners about India have rarely been worth writing home about, ranging as they've done from the appallingly ignorant racism of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to David Lean's well-intentioned but cringe-making Passage to India, with Alec Guinness in brown fa...
London Walks (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Alec Guinness and a daring escape from the police in The Lavender Hill Mob . John Wayne starting a fight in a famous pub in Brannigan . The scene of an audacious robbery by the original League of Gentlemen in 1960. Where Sophia Loren (or at least, her stunt double) jumped into the Thames in The Millionairess . Bridget Jones flat, and just how far she ran through the snow in her knickers Where James...
The Moment (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
Patrick Stewart and Alec Guinness as George Smiley in the BBC's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." (Everett Collection) With everyone flocking to see the new James Bond film this weekend, let's not forget England's other great spy, George Smiley. The author John Le Carré made Smiley the flabby, brilliant center of several novels, particularly his "Karla Triology," two of which were adapted by the BBC with...
TheForce.Net (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
A pioneer winemaker who founded Yarra Yering in the cool-climate Yarra Valley of Victoria in Australia, Bailey Carrodus was something of an enigma and an acknowledged eccentric. He reminded guests of the late actor Alec Guinness dressed in a floppy hat and neatly pressed trousers but with a tidy, trimmed grey beard. Carrodus had an old-fashioned, circumspect courtesy and scholarly persona that was...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
(2006) After discovering she has only three weeks to live, Queen Latifah decides to go out in style.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
The now 97-year-old Ronald Neame worked with Alec Guinness on five important British films: as producer of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist , and director of The Card, The Horse's Mouth and Tunes of Glory, made when we had a properly functioning film industry. The neglected Horse's Mouth is a labour of love by Guinness. He adapted it from Joyce Cary's rambunctious novel and himself played the outsize,...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
Andrew Davies's new dramatisation of Little Dorrit couldn't be better timed, writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Film News: Indies' edgy methods have enriched action pics -- Judging by how often the Academy has nominated a performance in a fantasy epic or a superhero movie over the past 80 years, you'd think that wearing a cape and giving a decent performance were somehow mutually exclusive.
