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This post does not support the use of illegal pharmaceuticals and frowns sternly in your direction if you have ever done so. Two cinema visits this week, marked with a *.
Tell No One (2006)
Why can't more bestselling authors be like Harlan Coben? Not allowing Hollywood to ruin his novel, but giving a young, relatively untried French director ...
Nobody Knows Anything 12-05-2008 19:48
In these days of widescreen, hi-def, Blu-ray video pictures, cast a thought back to the late 1920’s and early 1930’s – even then they had widescreen, large format film presentations.
The release of Fox’s “The Big Trail” in both normal (35mm) and widescreen (70mm) editions on a 2 disc Region 1 DVD set is a welcome addi...
THE RANDOM JOTTINGS OF SIRIAMI 12-05-2008 08:20
1997 | Curtis Hanson | 132 mins | DVD | 18 / R
Once again I'm watching an adaptation shortly after plowing through the source novel, a situation that has so far proved awkward for giving films a fair assessment. L.A. Confidential is an especially tricky one: how does a 480-page, densely written, intricately plotted crime novel, spanning seven ye...
100 Films in a Year 12-05-2008 00:43
Directed by: Jay Roach
The career of Mike Myers has been strangely sporadic, with peaks of popularity exploding him back into the public consciousness before he slinks away again to consider his next move. As one of the more successful Saturday Night Live graduates, it was a character from that very show which brought him to the big screen in...
Slate Scrawl 11-05-2008 23:58
Director: Yeung Shu-Hei Cast: Tang Ching; Lee Kwan; Margaret Tu Chuan Territory: Hong Kong Production Company: Shaw Brothers
There’s an international money counterfeiting gang in town, and Interpol agent 009, Chen Tianhong (Tang Ching) is sent to investigate.
Like Lo Wei’s Golden Buddha from 1966, Interpol 009 attempts to bring a Chin...
Heroes of the East 11-05-2008 19:52
It's dated yesterday, but I don't think it ever made it into the printed version of the Guardian, which is why I didn't spot it until now. Anyway, here's an excellent interview with Jiří Menzel as his latest film I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále, 2007) finally gets a belated and brief British cinema run....
Kinoblog 10-05-2008 13:17
Neil Burnside, the lead character in this classic ITV series, lets the viewer know early on that this isn’t going to be a series full of 007-style outlandish plots and over the top action –“If you want James Bond go to a library” he informs a colleague in the first episode. The Sandbaggers is more interested in the backroom boys than with t...
Mine Was Taller 10-05-2008 11:46
2005, US, Directed by Steven Spielberg
Colour, Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD, Region 2, Paramount, Video: Anamorphic 1.85:1, Audio: DTS
The first cinematic adaptation of H.G.Wells’ story is obviously considered to be a minor pinnacle of science fiction but being produced in the fifties it was no doubt time a huge budget remake was on the cards...
The Grim Cellar 09-05-2008 18:45
Digging deep for some picks this week, but nonetheless a collection of interesting movies, I think. I've been enmeshed in DVD Times reviews (a missed attempt at The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Walk Hard, the entirety of the Warner Gangsters Collection Vol. 3). The August schedule is now up on the TCM site and looks to have several interesting ob...
clydefro 09-05-2008 12:38