Stephen Humphries at The Christian Science Monitor has written an article about how Hollywood seems to be taking less notice of critics, especially for films aimed at a section of the audience who don’t typically pay any attention of them: teenagers.
There’s always been some sort of the two-way street between …
A couple of interesting movie-related links:
The Guardian has a list of the top 50 best book-to-film adaptations. I have to confess that there are surprisingly few where I’ve both read the book and seen the film, and I can barely remember the quality of the crossover on those.
In a …
I’ve been meaning to mention that I attended my first premiere the other day. That sounds like I’m being very egotistical look at me, I went to a film premiere. It was for a film called The Witches Hammer (see trailer here), a film written, directed, produced and …
I’ve become a little obsessed about this film after seeing the trailer, although the affect is diminishing slightly. The official website describes the film thus:
Brick, the dynamic debut feature from writer/director Rian Johnson, won the Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision.
Brick, while taking its cues …
I’ve not been able to do it, but Jakob believes that if you have the same bit of film running beside each other, a frame or two out of sync, and you cross your eyes, it makes the film appear 3D. You can check out the example here. …
Steven Spielberg has announced that he is to produce, and possible front, a TV talent show looking for the next hot director in an X-Factor/Pop Idol/American Idol style. The show, to be called On the Lot, will screen later this year in the States with the winner getting a …
It seems the newly-formed dedicated anti-piracy unit has already paid dividends by discovering and apprehending the people running what is thought to be largest pirate DVD factory ever found in the UK. They believe the factory was capable of producing 2,700 DVDs an hour. The raid found 60 …
