The Guardian suggests some films to watch over Christmas and New Year. My personal recommendations would be (excluding those on Sky): Blade Runner: The Final Cut – a classic how it was meant to be, before meddling studio execs got involved. King …
There are a couple of articles on the Guardian website about the future of the His Dark Materials film franchise. It seems they’re at least on hold, if not cancelled altogether. Which is a shame. I’ve read the books and quite enjoyed them, and I enjoyed the first film …
The rest of the economy is (apparently) suffering but not the flicks. UK cinemas are on track of have £1bn of takings in 2009, with some big movies keeping the money churning in over the festive period. What’s interesting is the cause of this rise: …
When you buy one of a select range of movies on DVD/Blu-ray from Amazon (US only) you can now watch it immediately using their On Demand service. Genius, let’s hope that takes off and they get it to the UK.
Less than a day after my article asking whether we’ll see more movies aimed at women and this article on the Guardian site certainly suggests I’m right.
Forgive my somewhat patronising title, but having read a few articles about ‘twihards’ (big fans of the Twilight films/books) and this article about Beautiful Creatures, plus the fact that New Moon is currently riding high in the global box office I have to wonder if we’ll see more films targeted …
