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Hooray for Hollywood!

Hooray for Hollywood!

In the Old Testament, a young shepherd vanquished a formidable giant in the Valley of Elah. At the 2010 Oscar ceremony, David again triumphed over Goliath with a stone called “The Hurt Locker.” The flood of awards moved viewers around the (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Wajid Ali Syed

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

A Disney disappointment for Parisian family

It was supposed to have been a family treat as a group that included six adults and nine children made their way to a cinema in Paris to see a matinée performance of the latest Disney film "The Princess and the Frog". But it ended up with the (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

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Avatar, the movie

Avatar is not just a state-of-the-art 3D movie, it’s the right movie to sum up the first ten years of the 2000s. After almost 3-hours of screenplay (and God Almighty, please let the director have stored another two hours for a special DVD-edition, (...)

14 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Paolo Sandro

Movie Monsters, Barack Obama, Mother Nature and other terrifying things

Haitian child with Red Cross

The original The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, was on satellite TV the other morning. My wife, Joyce, watched. I didn’t. Even when I was a young, easy-to-frighten child, The Mummy didn’t scare me much. As long as I didn’t let myself (...)

14 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Monroe Anderson

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Jorge Ameer’s latest controversial film "D’Agostino" unravels the benefits & perils of human cloning

Jorge Ameer's latest controversial film "D'Agostino" unravels the benefits & perils of human cloning

A soon to be released film by auteur Jorge Ameer tells the story of what can happen when one fed up man, Allan Dawson, has too much time on his hands. This story takes place in the future, where science and technology has advanced to such depths that (...)

30 Nov. 2009 | | Hollywood Independents

Voddler, Sweden’s new net movie service

Voddler, Sweden's new net movie service

A new video service offering online movies for free already has more than a quarter of a million sign-ups since its launch two weeks ago. Called Voddler, it was founded in Stockholm in 2005 but now has 70,000 registered users, as well as a queue of more (...)

12 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Carla Bruni to hit the big screen?

Isn’t it just the news you’ve been waiting for? France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is rumoured to be set to appear at a cinema near you sometime in the not-too-distant future. Well that’s if the Spanish national daily (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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Heath Ledger’s whaling video

Heath Ledger's whaling video

Australian actor heath Ledger died in January, 2008. He was in a lot of movies, but he’s likely to be remembered mainly for two : one in which she starred ; and another which he directed. The first was the Dark Knight. Ledger stole the show as The (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Go and see Wajda’s superb film ‘Katyn’ while there’s still time

J and I are still reeling from the effects of the film Katyn, the latest product of the great Polish director Andrzej Wajda, and indisputably a masterpiece. Watching it is a gruelling experience, but a hugely rewarding one. Although theoretically on (...)

21 jui. 2009 | | Brian Barder

Soraya’s Warning to the Mullahs

Soraya's Warning to the Mullahs

The Stoning of Soraya M. is more than a movie about a wronged Iranian woman. The film’s timing, writes Steven Emerson, can help a nation rally against its iron-fisted Islamic rulers. By Steven Emerson. Director Cyrus Nowrasteh’s new release, (...)

7 Jul. 2009 | 1 comment | The Investigative Project on Terrorism

Oscar Winning Karl Malden Dead At 97

Oscar Winning Karl Malden Dead At 97

God Bless Karl Malden who came from humble beginnings in Gary, Indiana and demonstrated what hard work could accomplish. He was a member of my church and I remember him when I was a child during Holiday services when he would stand in the balcony with (...)

2 Jul. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

Kung Fu star David Carradine dead

Kung Fu star David Carradine dead

In the famous Kung Fu TV series, Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine travels slowly through the old American West, armed only with his skill in the martial arts - and a bamboo flute - as he searches for half-brother Danny Caine. He’s portrayed by David (...)

5 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Pacino To Bring Kevorkian to the Silver Screen

Pacino To Bring Kevorkian to the Silver Screen

So Jack Kevorkian’s dream has come true. The flamboyant inventor of the Thanatron and part-time painter of rotting skulls will get his much longed for appearance on the silver screen. Barry Levinson the director who brought us the fictional, (...)

2 jui. 2009 | | Bioethics.net

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Paramount scores with NASA Star Trek promo !

Paramount scores with NASA Star Trek promo !

Paramount has put a huge one over 20th Century Fux and American taxpayers. Fux scored big-time in terms of free publicity and free viral advertising when its Wolverine flick turned up online. Not that Star Trek 2009 did badly when it, too, appeared first (...)

19 mai. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Star Trek

The early gossip around Star Trek had me very nervous. It was clear that the studio wasn’t interested in doing something that, like the TNG-based films, was basically designed to appeal to fans. Instead, they wanted to turn Trek, which has always (...)

11 mai. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

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Never mind online leaks, Wolverine a hit

Never mind online leaks, Wolverine a hit

Remember how 20th Century Fux was screaming about online leaks of an unfinished workprint of X-Men Origins : Wolverine a month before its official release date ? Not long after, it was followed by what was presumably the finished version, an event (...)

4 mai. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Finished ‘X-Men : Origins’ now online

Finished ‘X-Men : Origins' now online

“Sunny gorgeous day in LA. Wolverine cast and crew party tonight !” - Twittered Hugh Jackman yesterday. He’s the star in the new Wolverine movie, slated to be in the cinemas on May 1. But it’s been doing the rounds online for (...)

27 avr. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Morocco to feature at 2009 Mediterranean Film Festival

Morocco and France will be the special guest countries at the 15th annual Mediterranean Film Festival to be held in the Italian capital, Rome, in November. President of the festival, Ginella Vocca, has invited writers, producers and distributors to (...)

21 avr. 2009 | | The View From Fez

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Quite possibly the most important Icelandic film ever made

Quite possibly the most important Icelandic film ever made

This past weekend, EPI and I went to see a new Icelandic film that totally knocked our socks off. It’s called Draumalandið [Dreamland] and it’s a documentary that powerfully depicts the insanity that has prevailed here on The Rock in the last (...)

15 avr. 2009 | | Alda Sigmundsdóttir

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They aren’t Dogs, in those Slums

They aren't Dogs, in those Slums

The following comments may contain spoilers. Directors Danny Boyle’s and Loveleen Tandan’s "Slumdog Millionaire" swept the Oscars this year, in a remarkable sign of globalization. The creative team behind the film was largely British (...)

23 fév. 2009 | | Juan Cole

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Escape from City 17 - multi-million dollar epic ?

Escape from City 17 - multi-million dollar epic ?

You can’t make a decent movie without a whopping great budget. Right ? The Dark Knight cost reported $180 million dollars to put together. It pulled in around a billion dollars before expenses - $2.98 after drug, alcohol and lawyer bills were paid. (...)

18 fév. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Will Heath Ledger get an Oscar ?

Will Heath Ledger get an Oscar ?

This morning the late Heath Ledger’s name, “was called out in the category of best supporting actor,” says the Los Angeles Times. It’s Oscars time and one year to the day after his death, the question is, ‘Can he win (...)

23 jan. 2009 | | Jon Newton

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Morocco’s Cinema War

Morocco's Cinema War

The prestigious journal, Arab Media & Society, has an extremely interesting article on a little know episode in the history of Fez. The article "Politics by Other Screens" is by Elizabeth F. Thompson, associate professor of history at the (...)

23 jan. 2009 | | The View From Fez

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Man on Wire

Man on Wire

Man on Wire is as fitting a eulogy for the World Trade Center towers as one can imagine. It documents Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the two buildings through a combination of talking head interviews, archival footage and photographs, (...)

22 jan. 2009 | | David Wester

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Wall-E (2008)

Wall-E (2008)

I think I’ve discovered at least one of the secrets of Pixar’s exasperatingly consistent excellence. Many movies are so desperately eager to dazzle us visually, put their technical prowess on display, that they lose sight of anything (...)

12 jan. 2009 | | Paul McElligott

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In Film : Jean-Claude Can Act ?

In Film : Jean-Claude Can Act ?

Jean-Claude Van Damme is an enigma. No, a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Cause in the Ninjas vs. Pirates debate, Van Damme would be like the ninja who drunkenly swaggers over and kills the moderator with a silent kick to the groin - a ninja-pirate hybrid (...)

3 déc. 2008 | | Rob Port

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The Dutch-Jewish Films of Renee Sanders, This Week in NY

Dutch-Jewish film maker Renee Sanders will be screening four of her documentaries this week at "Celebrate Independent Thinking," a series at the Ann Frank Center USA at 38 Crosby Street in New York. The films explore the Holocaust in the (...)

12 nov. 2008 | | Kesher Talk

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Tube Bite Leads to Zombie Movie

Bryony Matthewman was bitten on the London Underground and the experience inspired her to create a Internet Zombie Movie. When I first heard about this through Channel 4’s 4Talent, I thought that she’d had a mosquito bite. But it wasn’t. (...)

6 nov. 2008 | | Annie Mole

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Lawrence of Arabia Rides Again At Cinemateque

In case you were worried, Cinemateque Ontario will deliver a second screening of David Lean’s 1962, and very very long, masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia, after the first showing in late November sold out faster than hotcakes. Like two weeks ago. My (...)

5 nov. 2008 | | BlogTO

US Election and James Bond

US Election and James Bond

I happened to be reading Goldfinger at half-term, and chuckling to myself at all the things that Bond says and does that would be completely unthinkable today. He smokes 60 a day, he threatens to bend female secretaries over his knee and spank them - not (...)

4 nov. 2008 | | Boris Johnson

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