Articles...
Mar 14 2008
NO-ONE really knows what it was like to be alive in 10,000 BC, apart from the archaeological evidence. But it is a fair bet that it was nothing like the goings-on in this film....
Mar 14 2008
JUST why do we get so many horror films these days? I suspect that it’s because they are quick and easy to make and - above all - quite cheap....
Mar 14 2008
IF YOU’RE not already a devotee of perennially perky Miley Cyrus (daughter of achy breaky Billy Ray Cyrus) and her Disney Channel show, then Bruce Hendricks’s film won’t convert you....
Mar 12 2008
A COLLECTION of film trailers give some cinema-goers that sinking feeling as they realise they have to sit through a batch of “forthcoming attractions” before they get to the main film....
Mar 12 2008
BACK in the 1950s, we put on cardboard glasses with different coloured lenses, and went to the cinema to watch awful 3D monster movies. It proved a short-lived gimmick....
Mar 7 2008
FRANCIS DURBRIDGE, the creator of Paul Temple and Britain’s greatest exponent of the cliffhanger serial on radio and TV, once described his working method as: “Nobody is who they seem, everyone is lying.”...
Mar 7 2008
ANOTHER British television director gets his cinema chance, this time with a piece of historical recreation. This is the story of Mary and Anne Boleyn, two sisters who bedded Henry VIII but with varying results....
Mar 7 2008
ALTHOUGH the setting and underlying themes are contemporary – the corruptive allure of celebrity, the pressures of single parenthood, rampant materialism – The Game Plan is an old-fashioned Disney yarn extolling the virtues of the family unit....
Mar 7 2008
IT WAS the age-old dilemma of the choice between taking fame and money or art and status. Composer Leonard Rosenman, who has died, aged 83, of a heart attack, after battling dementia, was regarded as one of serious music’s hot post-war talents, but chose to take the Hollywood dollar and saw his concert hall career immediately collapse....
Mar 6 2008
JENNIFER Ellison talks about losing her head for her latest acting role in the horror black comedy, The Cottage...
