Carol Reed

Film review: Somers Town

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008

Sukhdev Sandhu reviews Shane Meadows's touching coming-of-age film, Somers Town.

Colour of Murder Extends Popular Franchise

Yet Another Review Site - News RSS (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

CHAPEL HILL, NC – August 18th, 2008 – Merscom announced today it is the online publisher of Time Stand Still, the popular adventure game developed by MDNA Games, and will also be publishing the fifth Carol Reed adventure title, Colour of Murder, later this year. Released over the weekend on a major casual game portal, Time Stand Still follows on Merscom's success with Blood Ties, Ghost in the Sheet,...

Big Fish Games: Big Fish Games Launches Time Stand Still

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008

SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) Big Fish Games(TM), the world's leading online destination for casual entertainment, announced today the release of Time Stand Still, a new point-and-click casual game published by Merscom, a Big Fish Games exclusive.

• Big Fish Games Launches Time Stand Still - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Big Fish Games Launches Restaurant Rush - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

Adenosine Therapeutics Acquired By Clinical Data

Virginia Biotechnology Association (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008

Clinical Data, Inc. announced August 5 the acquisition of Charlottesville-based Adenosine Therapeutics, L.L.C., a developer of drug products based on its extensive portfolio of composition of matter and method of use patents relating to selective...

• Clinical Data Acquires Adenosine Therapeutics - Red Orbit

1948: The Mad, Mad, Mad World

Film of the Year (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008

The Snake Pit (1948) Directed by Anatole Litvak 108 min.;U.S.A.; Black and White; Mono It feels good to be back in the film blogsphere. After the two-plus-week break I feel anxious to see what's been happening on the blogs in my blogroll. I feel just as skin-crawlingly anxious to restart...

Anthony Bourdain Follows Orson Welles' Footsteps in Declaring War on a Neutral Country, But Did He Get the Wrong One?

Amuse-Biatch (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008

In what is quite possibly our favorite film of all time, Carol Reed's The Third Man , Orson Welles famously spoke these self-penned words about Switzerland: "You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had...

A Kid For Two Farthings - 12:30am

ABC TV (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

A six-year-old boy is told of a unicorn with magic qualities. He buys a young goat with a single horn, believing he has found the mythical unicorn, and all his wishes begin to come true. CAST: Celia Johnson DIR: Carol Reed

The peanut gallery has been watching. . .

FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

Didn't watch many movies this week, just been watching 'My Name is Earl' and 'Justice League' instead. Day watched Movie Director Writer Star Rating Times I've seen it Tuesday Oliver! Carol Reed Vernon Harris 3 stars first viewing Wednesday The Matrix Andy and Larry Wachowski Andy and Larry Wachowski 4 stars 10th? viewing Thursday The Matrix Reloaded Andy and Larry Wachowski Andy and Larry Wachowski...

Screen Icons: Attenborough & Depardieu in July

DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008

News: Optimum Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of two Screen Icons collections in July. Focussing on Richard Attenborough and Gerard Depardieu, more details follow… 14th July 2008 Screen Icons: Richard Attenborough Collec...

Sophia Loren Surveys Her Classic Career

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008

Each Wednesday in June, TCM has been paying tribute to with an all-night marathon of her films. (This week's block opens at 8 pm/ET with 1958's , costarring Anthony Perkins.) For six decades now, Italy's most intoxicating export since vino has dazzled fans with her voluptuous beauty and estimable talent. Since this is no time for false modesty, we persuaded her to take a bow.

The First Time Watching 'The Third Man'

RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008

Fantastic cinematography, a great performance from Welles, but Brad isn't completely satisfied

1947: Northern Noir

Film of the Year (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008

Odd Man Out (1947) Directed by Carol Reed 116 min.; United Kingdom; Black and White; Mono After viewing Carol Reed's atmospheric crime drama Odd Man Out (1947) I'm convinced that the director's first major post-war feature is every bit as visually rich and engrossing as its more famous sibling, The...

Various: Oliver! - Original Soundtrack

Daily Express (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008

For his 2009 Oliver! West End production, Andrew Lloyd Webber's TV hunt for the high-profile role of Nancy came to end on Sunday when Jodie Prenger was chosen by the public.

Faded glory

cold fury (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008

Lileks on The England That Was — and The England That Is, and Shall Be: Since my wife had come straight from work, (G)Nat wanted to drive home with Mom. She wanted to race: first one in the garage wins. I said that wasn't safe. Then winked. I was behind them all the way home, [...]

Making Sense of Speed Racer’s Failure

Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008

Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal attempts to make sense of the spectacular box office failure of Speed Racer, which raced to becoming a bona fide flop both in the US and overseas. He writes: “[C]haos isn't a surefire selling tool, not even when the target audience is sensation-hungry…Kids need inoculation against media-generated chaos. That's [...]