Movies

  My gloriously long two week summer break – trust me compared to the one or two days I have taken off here and there over the last year of frantic work, it is indeed epically long – is so close I can almost it (if you must know it Continue Reading

  Oh joyous news! To my eternal delight – “eternal” being defined as anything that catches my attention long enough to stop me looking at Twitter again for at least five minutes – phoenixdark9 on YouTube has mashed together Toy Story 2 (and a small bit of Toy Story 3) with Continue Reading

  I was watching The View recently and they had Angie Harmon (Law and Order, Rizzoli and Isles) on as a guest. Now while I think she is a beautiful, delightfully down-to-earth person, I wasn’t planning to hang around for the interview until she said that her fondest Christmas tradition Continue Reading

  And the sci-fi mega0-movies just keep on coming. Now we have the Guillermo Del Toro helmed-movie, Pacific Rim, which is based on an initial treatment by Travis Beacham (who has been given the job of writing a sequel already despite the movie not releasing till July 12, 2013 in Continue Reading

  One of Hollywood’s most gifted, and yet at times maddeningly inconsistent directors. M. Night Shyamalan’s is back with another movie, and you what? It looks pretty damn good. I know there are a great many people who have tired of Shyamalan’s cinematic vision after films like Lady in the Continue Reading

  Behold the trailer for the upcoming apocalyptic movie Oblivion, where once again mankind has not played nice with planet Earth, rendering our precious blue and green ball irradiated and unfit for habitation for neither man nor beast. Or so the remnant of humanity, safely ensconced in towering cities above Continue Reading

  I get it. It’s James Bond’s 50th anniversary and so all the stops have been pulled out to craft a worthy movie to mark this historic occasion. And as far as it goes, the Sam Mendes-directed Skyfall does that admirably. It has the daring over-the-top, larger-than-life opening action sequence with Continue Reading

  I have a great relationship with my mum. We talk regularly, talk deeply about all sort of issues and laugh at silly jokes late at night when everyone else is sound asleep. She’s a great lady and when I see her, we get on brilliantly well. But even I Continue Reading

  I love movie posters. In the hands of truly inspired designers, they are a thing of beauty, capable of firing the imagination and heightening the anticipation for the story to come. Over the last week, movie posters were released for the new iteration of Superman, and for the new Continue Reading

  So how about this for a dream combination? According to the always well-informed folks at Variety, there’s an unnamed crime drama in the works at Sony starring George Clooney (who will also produce it with his business partner Grant Heslov) and written by Chris Terrio, the writer of one of Continue Reading