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What with being caught up with all the splendid events surrounding the 50th Anniversary of the James Bond film franchise, I completely forgot to post this. So, although the 50th anniversary was last year, let’s just put that aside and celebrate my top ten moments from the last 50 years where Bond has shown that nobody […]
July 12, 2012
Hold fast! ‘Ere be spoilers. Ya-haaar! Ridley Scott’s Prometheus – the long-awaited pseudo-sequel to his 1977 seminal sci-fi/horror film – is finally out and, frankly, has left many people scratching their heads. Perhaps one of the reasons for this confusion is that sequels generally answer questions raised by the films they purportedly predate (the Star […]
March 4, 2012
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 […]
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 […]
July 13, 2011
When they discover my passion for film, people often ask me which is my favourite. This is, of course, an impossible question to answer, however, seeing as I am so regularly asked, I decided it would be a good idea to think of one. So now I always answer that it is The Philadelphia Story, […]
June 2, 2011
When Pierce Brosnan took over the role of James Bond in 1995, some said it was a role he was destined to play. Tall, dark and handsome, he’d even been married to a former Bond girl, Cassandra Harris, who sadly passed away in 1991. After Cubby Broccoli met Brosnan on the set of For Your […]
March 8, 2011
When it comes to the production design on the James Bond films, we’ve been truly spoilt. No other film series can truly claim the lavish and inventive sets associated with the Bond films. We’ve seen hollowed-out volcanoes transformed into rocket bases. We’ve seen supertankers transform into a submarine pen. We’ve seen the towers of gold bars […]
March 7, 2011
Last week gave us the 83rd annual Academy Awards and, as promised, I’m here to take a look at the winners and review my predictions. James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted the Academy Awards this year in a break from the tradition of a single, comedic host. This was obviously an attempt to connect with the […]
October 21, 2010
Tron Legacy, the long awaited sequel to the Eighties classic Tron, is almost upon us and it looks as though it will have been worth the wait. The original 2008 ComicCon promo. This was made as much to convince Disney that it could be done as it was to whet the appetite of fans. […]
September 28, 2010
On my tenth birthday I had a friend come to stay for a sleepover. One of the things we were planning to do was to stay up and watch a movie (or a video as we called them back then.) My mum took us to the video shop (for those of you too young to […]
August 4, 2010
When people think back to London in the 1960s they often think of sex, drugs and rock and roll, what we have come to know as Swinging London. Whilst many films tried to encapsulate this era, few managed to capture this as effectively as Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s Performance. Performance certainly had all the […]
January 24, 2013
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