Today is the day. I will be visiting the cinema this evening to see the most eagerly anticipated movie of the year, for me anyway. At 8.30 tonight I will be sitting on the front row of Screen 1 in Mile End Road’s Genesis Cinema. Guess which film it is. Go on. No, not Hanna […]
It was set to be the movie event of the year. The film adaptation of the Citizen Kane of comic book novels is here. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ revolutionary and inventive deconstruction of the superhero myth is a weaving story of redemption, betrayal, love and humanity.
Ah, but what about the film? In the hands of […]
My excessive excitement about the impending Star Trek film is reaching unnatural extremes. I may do myself an injury. I cannot wait to see this film. Just released is the new trailer. This is two minutes of prime spectacle. I implore you to go and watch this right now.
You will be able to view the […]
The main event of the last 24 hours was the 81st Academy Awards. Notable winners include Sean Penn, Heath Ledger, Penelope Cruz and Kate Winslet (with the whistling dad). The majority of statuettes were awarded to British/Indian production Slumdog Millionaire, including Best Film and Best Director.
I met Danny Boyle years ago. He seemed like a […]
Michael Crichton, the best selling author and creator of ER, has died of cancer aged 66. His books have sold more than 150 million copies and he is most famous for novels which have been adapted into major films, including Jurassic Park, Congo and Disclosure. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who directed the blockbuster film version of […]
Now this is exciting. Well, it is exciting for me – being a Trekker and all. As you know I am really looking forward to the new Star Trek film and all reports suggest that it will be brilliant. (I will eat a hat if it is not – only a chocolate hat mind.)
Paramount has […]
I was very happy to learn that Ridley Scott is to make his return to science fiction cinema with an adaptation of Joe Haldeman’s novel The Forever War. Scott was supposed to make this film immediately after Alien and then after Blade Runner but rights problems prevented this. Fox 2000 has now acquired the rights […]
Celebrity method actor and Batman star Christian Bale has been bailed by police following his arrest over allegations he assaulted his mother and sister. The Welsh born actor denies the allegations, which supposedly took place in a suite at London’s Dorchester Hotel on Sunday.
Bale was in London to promote the latest instalment of the Batman […]