Monthly Archives: July 2008
Ang-felina? Here’s an odd story circling the globe. Former TV Catwoman, Julie Newmar, “has given her blessing” for Angelina Jolie to take on the role in an upcoming movie nobody has heard about, based on the fact that “industry friends tell me she has already made enquiries about the role.” Cool how Hollywood works, isn’t it? Close...
Looking at movies from inside the blinkered bubble of the Hollywood hype machine, or broadening our scope to the wider realm of international prestige films, it’s easy to forget that many of the most exciting aspects of movie-making have much humbler beginnings. Classic wuxia and crime thrillers of the 1980′s were the foundation of a Golden Age for Hong Kong...
THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (2008) – ***1/2 out of 5 Guest review by RRA The idea of a new X-FILES adventure in 2008 was very provocative to me early on in how it could possibly deal with our national psyche in Bush America. If the television series was about the Baby Boomers’ unresolved issues over the JFK’s assassination, Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra,...
Screen Daily has the line-up for the 65th Venice Film Festival. Burn After Reading gets its World Premiere. Competition The Wrestler, dir. Darren Aronofsky (US) The Burning Plain, dir. Guillermo Arriaga (US) Il papa di Giovanna, dir. Pupi Avati (Italy) BirdWatchers, dir. Marco Bechis (Italy) L’Autre, dirs. Patrick Mario Bernard & Pierre Trividic (France) The...
Salon’s Thomas Schaller neatly sums up one of the worst things about Oliver Stone’s “W” — it’s boneheaded opportunistic release date: …October 17? There are few things conservatives love more than feigning outrage while throwing, um, stones at people like Oliver Stone and Hollywood more generally. And if Stone’s own directorial...
Digital Spy has the morning tea party news: Tim Burton has reportedly signed Johnny Depp for his forthcoming Alice In Wonderland adaptation. The film, which will be presented in Disney Digital 3-D, will feature Depp as The Mad Hatter, according to The Sun. A source commented: “Tim has had designs on Alice In Wonderland since before he was famous. Can the news of...