I'm filling for Graeme Tuckett on Nine to Noon for the next few weeks. This morning Lynn Freeman and I discussed Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Despicable Me (and 3D…
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In a week when film fans are mourning the passing of the French great Claude Chabrol (80 year old co-pioneer of the French New Wave) it’s pleasing to report that…
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John August coins a term for those beautiful mock posters for existing films: "unsheets" By stripping away the credit blocks and pithy taglines, unsheets distill films down to their essence…
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Jon Hamm ("Mad Men") describes the life of a not-very-successful Hollywood actor in The Guardian: And there's this hideous thing they make you do when you go up for a…
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As the great 80s action heroes passed their respective peaks and drifted down the other side towards irrelevancy (or ego-centric foolishness) those of us that cared about these things were…
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With the big budget Hollywood remake already in production (starring Rusty Crowe), Anything for Her looked like it might have had some entertainment potential but I’m sad to report that…
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