Archive for November, 2008


Whatever happened to all the last action heroes?

Some good articles over at The Guardian and The Telegraph ask what happened to action heroes and how Hollywood has turned to British actors to fill the roles.

The Guardian’s article about Jason Statham seems a bit off the mark after reading the other articles: Christian Bale and Gerard Butler, to …


Cinema begins over-18s screenings

Vue cinemas have begun showing over-18s only screenings after positive reaction to trials. Sounds like an interesting idea.

While there are times that would be good, generally I find seeing kids movies with children in the audience more fun, they react in a completely different way and haven’t learnt the …


Slumdog Millionaire

The idea of someone coming from a slum and being able to win the top prize, then getting accused of cheating sounds interesting enough, but the link to destiny and how events (presumably shown by flashback) in his life have given him the answers, plus his search for his true …


Special

From the trailer and description I’m not sure if Michael Rapaport’s character actually develops super-powers or if he just gets convinced he has them. Either way it looks a very interesting, and surreal, story of a man going from zero to (sort of) hero.

See the trailer on Apple.