Tag Archive | "movie"

Björk singing for the Moomins

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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(Björk, image borrowed from her website gallery) Icelandic singer and all round engima Björk is working with Sjón to create a song especially for a new film being made by the Finnish Filmkompaniet studio and due next year, “Moomins and the Comet Chase”. Hard to think on someone more suitable to sing for a Moomin Troll! [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke rides again

Friday, September 18, 2009

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Two new teasers were released last week for James Huth’s upcoming movie, Lucky Luke, based on Maurice De Bevere’s comic about the lonesome cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow.  The teasers focus on two of the main baddies from the movie : Calamity Jane and Billy The Kid.  Even though both characters are based [...]

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Night of the Living Dead remake

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

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The seemingly endless cycle of remaking classic films rolls on; this time the film being pillaged by modern film-makers is George Romero’s landmark Night of the Living Dead, originally shot in black and white on a shoestring budget in the late 60s and mixing solid, contemporary horror (right in modern society, not in some remote [...]

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Avatar 3-D trailer at the Glasgow IMAX

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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The Glasgow Science Centre folks tell us they are showing the fifteen minute 3-D trailer for James Cameron’s much-anticipated, highly secretive (let’s hope the finished work equals the hype!) return to feature films, the science fiction movie Avatar on August 23rd. They’re also offering one lucky soul a chance to win a pair of tickets [...]

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UFO movie?

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Blockbuster Buzz picks up on news of yet another old show being rebooted, this time one of the wonderful Gerry Anderson’s early live action series, UFO, which is heading fora possible big screen outing, with legendary Hollywood figure Robert Evans producing and effects wiz Matthew Gratzner down for directing duties. I’ve always found UFO interesting [...]

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Den of Geek talks to Dave Gibbons

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Over on Den of Geek Michael Leader talks to the Dave Gibbons about the Watchmen movie as it comes out on DVD and how the addition of the Black Freighter and the ability to stop and re-watch scenes on disc adds to the sense of the film (I must confess I’m not convinced on that [...]

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Geek Syndicate interviews Duncan Jones

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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The Geek Syndicate boys interview writer/director Duncan Jones (the artist formerly known as Zowie Bowie) about his debut feature, the British indy science fiction movie Moon, starring Sam Rockwell and the voice of Kevin Spacey. I was lucky enough to catch the film a few weeks back at the Edinburgh Film Festival (reviewed here) and [...]

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Peter Facinelli at FPI Dublin

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

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As you can see, yesterday evening’s signing with Peter Facinelli, known to legions of fans as the good hearted Doctor Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptation of the Twilight novels, in the Dublin FPI store drew a good crowd of adoring fans… In fact the queue spilled out onto the street – I can’t help but [...]

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Scarlett is the Black Widow!

Monday, July 20, 2009

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A glimpse of Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow in Iron Man 2; Scarlett in that costume, I simply don’t trust myself to comment… (from the cover of Entertainment Weekly, via Slashfilm)

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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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David Tennant in St Trinian’s

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

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Outgoing Doctor Who David Tennant will be in the second in the revamped St Trinian’s movies, its been announced. The first in the revived series, which included Russell Brand and Bond girl Gemma Arterton among the cast, did very well at the UK box office, and now cartoonist Ronald Searle’s creations are set for further [...]

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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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