Posts Tagged ‘Film’

Knocked Up / Superbad

Monday, May 5, 2008 19:29 No Comments

Having recently been introduced to these two films, amongst the major successes in a bumper year of off-beat American comedy in 2007, it was heartening to see that American teen/ 20-something comedy is finally growing up.
Just when we thought the Ferrell/Wilson/Stiller gang was hitting its zenith, along comes the Apatow/Rogen/Goldberg crew to steal their thunder. [...]

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Meet The Spartans – The Worst Film Ever Made?

Sunday, April 27, 2008 19:47 No Comments

I’m going to cut to the chase. Meet The Spartans is 78 minutes of complete and total, unmitigated shit. Quite how the writers (dreaded spoof-movie ‘gurus’ Friedberg and Seltzer) manage to achieve such levels of buttock-twinging awfulness is a mystery. If you want to experience the film without forking out the price of a cinema [...]

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Anthony Minghella – A Huge Loss To The World Of Entertainment

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 19:51 No Comments

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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Two Harry Potter Films For The Price Of One

Thursday, March 13, 2008 20:07 No Comments

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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