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July 12, 2012
A Galaxy Far, Far Away – Ralph McQuarrie, Star Wars’ Conceptual Artist Passes Away.
It is fairly safe to say that there have been few films that have made such a cultural impact upon their release as Star Wars.There are literally millions of people of a certain age for whom Star Wars wasn’t just a film; it was their fairytale, their playtime fantasy and the steady stream of water […]
Spookily good – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is full of spirit.
January 24, 2012
This is a longwinded introduction – to cut to the chase the review starts… Let’s face it, the Mission Impossible franchise shouldn’t have worked. It was released at a time when Hollywood had a yen for taking television series to the silver screen and failing miserably. Most of these big screen adaptations of their small […]
Posted in: Film & Television, Recent Release
Slaying The Dragon – David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
January 6, 2012
By now there must be no one on the planet who hasn’t heard of Stieg Larsson’s brilliant Millennium Trilogy and its intriguing protagonist Lisbeth Salander. There has nary been a beach holiday or a tube journey that hasn’t unveiled yet another reader of the books, despite the phenomenon having reached its crest some time ago. […]
Posted in: Film & Television, Recent Release
Circus Master – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy review.
October 31, 2011
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” is a truly grand achievement. Swedish director Tomas Alfredson and British husband and wife screenwriters Peter Straughan & the late Bridget O’Connor have managed to take Le Carre’s richly layered, meandering and complex novel and redact it and restructure it into a film that still retains the essential core of the […]
Posted in: Film & Television, Recent Release
The Readjustment Bureau – Philip K. Dick’s contribution to cinema.
October 30, 2011
A few days ago, the estate of Philip K. Dick started legal proceedings against Media Rights Capital over a dispute in payments resulting from the Matt Damon movie The Adjustment Bureau. According to the Trust, despite the numerous agreements made and the Trust’s every assistance in getting the film made, MRC are now denying they are […]
March 4, 2012
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