Tag Archive | "cinema"

Natalie Portman joins Thor cast

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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V For Vendetta star Natalie Portman has been announced as the female lead for the upcoming Thor movie, which will be directed by heavyweight thespian-director Kenneth Branagh. Portman will play Jane Foster, a character who featured heavily in earlier Thor comics as the nurse assistant to Thor’s alter-ego Doctor Donald Blake and was more recently [...]

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GI Joe – making the grade

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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With the big screen outing for GI Joe heading our way soon the PR machine is beginning to crank up online and Jenny at Rubber Republic points us to this new quiz game, Make the Grade, which they’ve just put up, where readers get to test their knowledge of what’s true or false about the [...]

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Smurf flick

Friday, July 10, 2009

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The BBC announces  (via Hollywood Reporter) that director Raja Gosnell has been signed up to helm a feature length Smurfs movie. Yes, Peyo’s little blue folks who were celebrating their fiftieth anniversary on the Continent (where they remain well known, unlike here)  just last year, are coming to the big screen in glorious 3D (as [...]

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Cuddle the Hutt

Friday, July 3, 2009

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This adorable fella is a very cuddly felt Jabba the Hutt created by Kit Lane; there are more pics on Lane’s Flickr stream. I wonder if there is a cuddly Leia in the slave bikini too… (via Boing Boing)

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke is alive!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Eurocomics heroes are seldom superheroes, and the lack of capes, powers and similar visual Sturm Und Drang have quite often deemed hem less suitable for a general audience film, much unlike X-Men, Spider-Man or Hellboy.  Sure, there’s Steven Spielberg’s much awaited Tintin adaptation, and there are lots of smaller-scale projects, aimed at a more local [...]

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Animation at the Film Fest

Monday, June 29, 2009

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Among the movies I was eager to see during my annual week off at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival were two animated features which we’ve mentioned on here before (regular readers will know of my fascination for all forms of animation) -- the Australian stop-motion film Mary and Max (that rare thing, a feature [...]

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Kells and Moon win at Edinburgh Film Festival

Monday, June 29, 2009

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The awards ceremony on the last night of the Edinburgh International Film Festival on Sunday saw Indy low budget science fiction flick Moon win the coveted Michael Powell award for Best New British Feature Film, while the gorgeous Irish animated film The Secret of Kells won the Standard Life Audience (voted for by the actual [...]

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Cameron shows off Avatar

Thursday, June 25, 2009

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James ‘king of the world’ Cameron has finally shown some footage of his long anticipated return to feature films, the science fiction epic Avatar. A select industry audience at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam were allowed to see 24 minutes of footage from the film. According to the BBC site there is a ban on [...]

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