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Over the last seven Olympics, from 1984 through 2008, the 56 men’s 100m finalists have all been of West African descent. The 56 have consisted of 17 African-Americans, 17 black West Indians, 8 West Africans (all from former British colonies, including one Nigerian running for Portugal), 7 black Britons, 6 black Canadians (1 a Haitian [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Director: Dave Filoni Running time: 98 minutes **
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Director: Dave Filoni Running time: 98 minutes **
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Say whatever awful things that you want about Adolf Hitler, because there’s little question that he deserves every sling and arrow that you want to throw in his direction, but you can’t say he wasn’t a fascinating individual. “Hitler: The Last Ten Days” is a film that wants to be just as fascinating, but [...]
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Starring : Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains Directed By : David Lean “Everybody needs a Hero.” This is one thing that the film constantly reminds us, throughout, from the first scene to the last. It all starts off with this slightly over the top(what I felt then) scene of Lawrence putting off a matchstick between his...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Playwright Simon Gray (pictured) author of more than 30 plays including Quartermaine's Terms, Otherwise Engaged and Butley - passed away in London on Wednesday (6 August 2008). A lifelong smoker, and in his later years, author of the Smoking Di...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of two classic British films on 20th October 2008. Priced at £15.99 each are The Horse's Mouth - In Ronald Neame's film of Joyce Cary's classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himsel...
DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Reviewed by Jim Thomas Quote: "The problem with this film isn't that it takes liberties with history; it's often done for dramatic effect. The problem is that there doesn't appear to be any advantage gained from the changes that were made. The final result is a jumbled mess, full of characters we don't care about."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The BFI Southbank is hoping to open a new film centre to house all its TV and film memorabilia by 2015
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
1. Max Schreck in F W Murnau's Nosferatu (1922) For sheer, pestilent malice, Max Schreck's hollow-cheeked, bald vampire, below, reigns supreme. "It was as if a chilly draught from doomsday had passed through Nosferatu," wrote the Hungarian critic Bela Balazs. There is no attempt to give Nosferatu depth or to try to make him sympathetic, a victim of his deprived Carpathian upbringing. He is utterly...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
It’s a little known fact that wars existed even before America was discovered. Hollywood has done its very best to correct this mistake since, but there was a time when the world kicked the crap out of each other without any help from the US. Anyway, to acknowledge the fact, Hecklerspray has rummaged through the annals of [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Some classics are better off not being revisited. This 1973 film about Hitler in the bunker is remembered as an intense drama featuring one of Alec Guinness' best performances. But Guinness can't even get the mustache right. He's...
Contemporary Nomad (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
It’s a few weeks old, but I just came across this bit in the Guardian: Francesca Martin Wednesday June 4, 2008 John le Carré’s hit thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is to hit the big screen. The author, whose real name is David Cornwall, is at work with the scriptwriter Peter Morgan on a film adaptation of the [...]
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Skip It The Movie: Not even the sterling talents of Sir Alec Guinness can quite salvage the mess that is Hitler: The Last Ten Days , a film that comes fitfully to life under Guinness' alternately manic and subdued performance, but which is fatally hampered by an episodic screenplay and a disastrously distracting use of intercut stock footage of Berlin meeting its ruin in the spring of 1945. With the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Sir David Lean is rightly celebrated as one of British cinema's greatest ever directors, the creator of, among others, Lawrence of Arabia, Great Expectations and The Bridge on the River Kwai. And yet little is known of his final project, Nostromo, which proved to be one of the biggest epics never to see the light of day and which caused the downfall of a tormented genius.
