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Privilege and beauty abound at Spenser Academy, a New England boarding school for the region’s reigning elite. Directed by Renny Harlin, The Covenant tells the story of the Sons of Ipswich, four young students bound by their sacred ancestry.
As descendants of the original families who settled in Ipswich Colony in …
The Fountain is an odyssey about one man’s thousand-year struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain, where conquistador Tomas (Hugh Jackman) commences his search for the Fountain of Youth, the lengendary entity believed to grant immortality. As modern-day scientist Tommy Creo, …
I agree with Jason Kottke’s view on the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy (i.e. as they were seen in cinemas) on DVD:
George Lucas, having run out of Star Wars movies he wants to make, continues to sell us the same movie we’ve seen 70 times in yet another …
William Wallace and his men squat around a cauldron filled with broth, dipping hunks of bread into it. One of Wallace’s soldiers brings over some new volunteers. One, a Scotsman, introduces himself and speaks with Wallace. Another, an Irishman, wanders around and helps himself to some broth.
Steven
Him? …
William Wallace leads his men quickly back to Scotland from York after hearing that the English are landing forces behind him. On a wooded hillside Steven, one of his lieutenants, returns after scouting ahead.
Steven
It’s true, the English ships are moving up from the South, I don’t know about …
In a series of announcements about future projects, MGM Chairman/CEO Harry Sloan mentioned a return to ‘tentpole’ movies in the $150-200 million range. MGM were recently acquired by Sony Pictures.
Variety announced some of the movies which MGM may be preparing, which included a fourth Terminator film, a sequel to …
The first HD-DVD player will be available in Europe on the 15th November this year. The article says that Toshiba will launch it’s HD-E1 player two days before Blu-ray is available in the Playstation 3. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if that holds now that …
The Black Dahlia weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (josh Hartnett), are called …
Little Miss Sunshine is an American family road comedy that shatters the mold. Brazenly satirical and yet deeply human, the film introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history: the Hoovers, whose trip to a pre-pubescent beauty pageant results not only in comic mayhem …
Cliff and Trevor exit their house arguing about Kerry, they stop at a milk float and nick a couple of bottle of milk, pop the tops and begin drinking. A voice comes from off screen.
Man (O.S.)
Cliff Starkey.
Cliff and Trevor stare across the street. A man clad head to …
Cliff, in the middle of a bowls match, is munching on a doughnut which is in his right hand. His opponent, Alan, spots this.
Alan
Sugar.
Cliff
You what, my love?
Alan
(concerned)
From the doughnut. On the green.
Cliff
(with a mouth full of doughnut)
It’s alright, I’ll use my left hand.
Cliff throws the remains of the …
Having just entered himself into the bowls tournament to decide the county champion, Cliff waits to find out who he is playing. Mutley, Cliff’s uncle, hurries over muttering ‘Oh my God, oh my God’.
Mutley
You’re playing Alan Booth, he’s ranked 16 in Devon, but he’s on his way up the …
Cliff walks out of the changing rooms at the Torquay Lawn Bowls Club dressed in a mismatched collection of white clothes and shoes, trousers that are too big and too short tied around his waist with a white cloth, a belt which is hanging below his hips, used only to …
