Archive for April, 2007


St Agnes Studios No More

I remember reading with some incredulity that they were going to build a film studio in Cornwall, my thought was it was too far away from London, the UK’s main film base, too much of a backwater, it’d never work.

Well, it turns out it was all a bit of a …


The Bourne Ultimatum

I’ve enjoyed the Bourne series so far, I’ve read both of the books that have been made into movies (much longer, more complex and, certainly in the case of Supremacy, totally different) and having just watched the trailer for The Bourne Ultimatum it looks like they’re 3 for 3 (to …


Cannes 2007

The list of entrants for the Cannes Film Festival have now been announced (although it’s not on their official site yet, from what I could see. No Brits made it into the main competition but, astoundingly, Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino’s half of Grindhouse, which was received very poorly in …


Grindhouse to be Split

The idea of Grindhouse, the new film which consists of two segments, one directed by Robert Rodriguez, the other by Quentin Tarantino. The aim was to make a pastiche of B-movies. It was released in the US last week and only made $11 million, much less than the …