Posted in B-movies, Horror, Industry, directors, film, politics on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Dispatches from this year’s Hay-on-Wye literature festival, courtesy of MovieMail correspondent Graeme Hobbs, confirm that director Robin Hardy is in fine fettle and still promising to deliver a much awaited ‘re-imagining’ of his cult 1973 film, The Wicker Man. Hardy has published a novel called Cowboys for Christ, which presents a new take on the […]
Posted in Horror, Industry, directors, film, politics on May 23rd, 2007 11 Comments »
If you’re like me, you may have let yourself down by tuning into Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year when you discovered that the incomparable filmmaker Ken Russell was a contestant.
I don’t know what I was expecting from Ken, but he was a disappointment, looking bored and engaging in uninspired conversation with housemates sixty years […]
Posted in awards, film, politics on Apr 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
Although The Last King of Scotland, which reaches DVD this month, is another feather in writer Peter Morgan’s cap (topping a remarkably fertile 12 months that has seen him deliver The Queen for the cinema, Frost/Nixon for the West End and Longford for TV), it is far more notable for Forest Whitaker’s performance as Idi […]
Posted in film, politics on Dec 10th, 2006 1 Comment »
With the level of hoo-hah we’ve come to expect from a regenerated Bond, the new Casino Royale is being unveiled at cinemas around the globe as this newsletter lands on your doormat. The public has been whipped up into the usual frenzy about the suitability of the new actor playing 007 (Daniel Craig) and — […]
Posted in Industry, film, politics on Nov 25th, 2006 No Comments »
It takes no great insight to say that, a lot of the time, the motive for making a sequel to a successful (or partially successful) movie is to make more money from the same concept without having to match the creative donkey-work that helped to get it off the ground in the first place. But […]