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Film review: Hancock

scotsman.com     6 hrs ago   235 related          

DIRECTED BY: PETER BERG STARRING: WILL SMITH, CHARLIZE THERON, JASON BATEMAN, EDDIE MARSAN WITH great power comes … no responsibility. The resulting mess stars Will Smith as John Hancock, an alcoholic asshole-of-a-hero who...

Lost scenes from Fritz Lang's Metropolis found in Argentina

Critics say restored version of 1927 classic throws light on 'baffling' movie Kate Connolly in Berlin Friday July 4, 2008 The Guardian Still from the Fritz Lang film, Metropolis Photograph: PR The cinematic world is celebrating...

The One Where They Make A Movie

Carrie Bradshaw isn't just a fashion trailblazer. The success of the Sex and the City movie looks to have spawned Friends: the film Let's make lots of money ... the cast of Friends So no one told you it was going to be this way...

New Hunter S. Thompson film focuses on writings

reuters.co.uk     10 hrs ago   30 related          

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney began filming the story of drug-addled U.S. journalist Hunter S. Thompson at the late author's funeral, he says it was one of his "greatest failures" in making the...

The unstoppable journey of Mamma Mia! to feelgood summer hit

Charles Spencer charts the success of the Abba musical from stage to screen Back in the Eighties, my sister and I took cruel pleasure in mocking my father about his beloved Abba LPs. The Mamma Mia! dream team: Catherine...

Film reviews: Kung Fu Panda and My Winnipeg

In Kung Fu Panda, the family film of the summer, Jack Black is perfectly cast as the voice of a shambling, pot-bellied panda, who is transformed into a martial arts hero to defend his village. The panda of the title is Po...

Noel Clarke: I'm influential? You're kidding...

Last week we said Noel Clarke was one of the most important figures in UK cinema. The Independent with one of those lists that I always like to look at, and for many years wished one day I would be a part of: "20 people who...

The doctor from Oldham goes to Bollywood

Dr Mahesh Kumar is something of a local hero as the head of radiology at Pennine Acute Trust, which runs hospitals in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and north Manchester. But to achieve international fame he has had to try something...

Film of the week: The Mist

scotsman.com     6 hrs ago   4 related          

The set-up is simple. Accompanying them is their neighbour, Norton (Andre Braugher), a big shot New York attorney with whom Drayton has had a fractious relationship but to whom he has now decided to play good neighbour, in a...

Anna Pickard on why Hollywood studios keep going to the small screen for ideas

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago   1 related          

Hollywood studios have hit on a lucrative formula: keep resurrecting popular TV shows for the big screen. In a strategic move probably quite closely connected to the Sex and the City film and how much lovely money it made for...

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