The news of Anthony Minghella’s death came as a huge shock yesterday. He was a magnificent film director, whose hit-rate was almost unrivalled by his British contemporaries. Amongst these contemporaries, perhaps only Richard Curtis and Ridley Scott can lay claim to having as big an influence on the industry as Minghella did.
Considering his credits as [...]

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News that the final Harry Potter book (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) will be split into two films should come as no surprise. The ‘official’ reason given is that the book (over 600 pages in length) is simply too long to pack into a single film. Daniel Radcliffe rather bafflingly suggests that the number [...]

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