It seems that France, the country that invented New Wave cinema and much of modern Film Studies, especially the auteur theory, has a growing distaste for art movies.
The public has seemingly lost trust in the nation’s critics who are seen as cossetted in a celluloid ivory tower, too pally with …
The full list of Oscar nominees has been announced. The big awards nominations all seem to be distributed evenly amongst the expected films. Peter O’Toole is living up to his statement in his acceptance of the lifetime achievement Oscar in 2003 that he was ’still in the game’ …
The RAZZIEs award the worst movies of the year and take a decidedly different approach to awards than the Oscars. It’s more of a hall of shame really, to try and drive home just how much utter tripe Hollywood churns out and tries to hide come Oscar night. …
Engadget has an article stating that the guy who recently released code allowing you to break the encryption on an HD-DVD disc has now stated that he can crack at least some of the encryption on a Blu-ray disc, the competing high definition format.
HD DVD cracker muslix64 is back, and …
There is an article on the BBC today that there’s a race on to make the story of recently deceased ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko. Apparently:
Warner Bros has bought the rights to a yet-unpublished book [titled Sasha's Story: The Life and Death of a Russian Spy] written by Alan Cowell of …
This year you’ll not only be able to watch some of the short films entered in the Sundance Film Festival, you’ll be able to buy them on iTunes too. So far 33 of the 71 shorts entered have signed up and you’ll be able to get them for up …
The New York Times has an interesting article about how Hollywood is dealing with YouTube. They seem to be resisting their usual urge to just demand everything be taken down and are looking for a middle road where they get paid for their copyright material. The studios seem …
There are a lot of stories about today as a result of the UK Film Council releasing a report saying that spending on film-making in the UK in 2006 totaled £840 million, making it the second highest total on record. The figures were 48% up on 2005, largely because …
Hot Fuzz is the new film from the makers of Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright. The synopsis goes as follows:
Top London cop, Police Constable Nicholas Angel, finds himself reassigned to the sleepy West Country village of Sandford. With garden fetes and neighbourhood watch meetings replacing …
Hot on the heels of the announcement that there will be no stopping the current HD format wars, even though a disc that can be played by hardware for both discs and a player that can play both format have recently been announced, is news that:
Microsoft has been forced to …
You’d be forgiven for not noticing the mention of Paramount signing up to deliver movies via iTunes in the swath of announcements by Steve Jobs yesterday, not that it makes much difference to those of us who live outside the US. Apple originally only had Disney signed on to …
Following on from yesterday’s announcement that the National Society of Film Critics think Pan’s Labyrinth was the best film of 2006, the Online Film Critics Society has called United 93 their best film of 2006. The Metacritic super-top-ten-list seems to bear that out, but it is also made up …
The National Society of Film Critics has named Pan’s Labyrinth as the best film of 2006. Metacritic shows the top ten lists of many US critics, and combines them to provide an overhaul view. Pan’s Labyrinth didn’t top it, but it didn’t do bad either. I wasn’t …
The New York Times has an article about the newly released Total HD high-definition DVD format. Warner Bros. have launched a new disc format that will be playable on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD drives, saving consumers from choosing one of the other. They also have another disc, not …
The BBC has an article about how sequels will be dominating Hollywood’s releases this year in what one film journalist has called the biggest summer ever. I went through the BBC’s film diary and noted 23 remakes, sequels and spinoffs (see list below), and that’s just the ones that …
