Archive for the ‘Film’ Category

Guns in movies making crime worse

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

You've seen all the recent Hollywood films, guns everywhere, bang bang bang all over the place, actors falling to the floor in mock death. Teenagers from rough areas copy what they see in the movies, they have no intellect to disseminate good from bad, and what do we get, the impression ...

Watch The Illusionist

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

A lovely film, The Illusionist, loosely based on the life of Eisenheim the magician. Carefully thought out with good photography. How nice not to see so many extreme closeups of actors faces including nostril hair, do most film producers and directors not realise that most people these days have quite large ...

The Champions to appear on the big screen

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

1960's iconic TV series the Champions, starring beautiful Alexandra Bastedo is to make its Hollywood film debut soon. Made during the era of other classics such as The Saint and animated series Thunderbirds, The Champions got their superhuman abilities following a plane crash in the mountains. Doubtless recent TV phenomenom Heroes was ...

No more Hollywood films this year say Writers Guild

Monday, November 5th, 2007

After the last strike by the Writers Guild of America lasted nearly 6 months, Hollywood moguls are counting the costs of a royalty dispute between major studios and the writers who are tired of being bit part players in film production. While salaries paid to  stars like Tom Cruise and ...

Clooney scores again in Michael Clayton

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

George Clooney, (where's the phone number for his hairdresser?), the typecast ladies man, a Cary Grant for the 21st century, has hit gold again in his role in yet another court and legal escapade. The girls cannot get enough of his haircut and all hairdressers should learn it, it should ...

Oh no, it’s Indiana Jones again!

Friday, October 12th, 2007

OAP Harrison Ford, (he's just turned 65 years old) has agreed to film again with Steven Spielberg (director) and George Lucas (producer) yet another blockbuster in the Indiana Jones series of movies. Due to be released in 2008 the new Indiana Jones co-stars Bob Dylan star Cate Blanchett as well as ...

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