Tony Scudder Walking and talking movies since the 70's
CABIN IN THE WOODS Most anticipated 2012 movie (RELEASED 13th April)
THE DEBT UNIVERSAL RELEASED 30 September 2011 ‘The Debt’ isn’t about the UK’s bank balance. It’s a spy thriller set in 1965 Berlin, where three Mossad agents have tracked down an old Nazi and intend on smuggling him back to Israel. Failing to take him alive, the three agents still become heroes back home, and [...]
Here’s the full, unedited press conference (complete with the occasional central London police siren!) attended by Jessica Chastain, Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and director Tom Madden. Enjoy! The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). [...]
MELANCHOLIA ICON RELEASED 30 September 2011 Lars, Lars, Lars. After the superb ‘Antichrist’, a horror film worthy of Polanski or Hitchcock, you’ve decided to make a metaphysical take on the end of the world, but forgotten what it is you wanted to say. Urgh.. There’s a giant planet (called ‘Melancholia’, as if – it would [...]
I remember a couple of years after ‘Twin Peaks’ created a stir on the small screen, another ‘odd’ TV series came out, this time from Denmark. Called ‘The Kingdom’, it was created by someone called Lars von Trier, and co-directed by von Trier and Morten Arnfred (who appears to have done little else since). I [...]
WIN Stake Land on DVD and Blu-ray With four-star reviews from Empire and The Times, STAKE LAND comes to DVD and Blu Ray in October. Connor Paolo (Gossip Girl) plays, Martin, a normal teenager swept across an abandoned, not-so United States of American in the aftermath of a ferocious vampire epidemic. It’s up to Mister [...]
WIN Last Night on DVD and Blu-ray Joanna (Keira Knightley, Never Let Me Go, Atonement) and Michael (Sam Worthington, Avatar, Terminator Salvation) are a married couple in Manhattan who face temptation when they spend a night apart. Michael is away on a business trip with his colleague Laura (Eva Mendes, The Other Guys), where each [...]
WIN The Adventures of Tintin on DVD Get ready for the ultimate voyage when all 21 of the original TINTIN animated adventures (completely re-mastered) are released by Anchor Bay Entertainment as DVD box sets for the first time ever on 10 October 2011. Created by Belgian comic writer Hergé in 1929, TINTIN has proven timeless [...]
Danish hit series ‘Forbrydelsen’ (‘The Killing’) was turned into a US-set 13-episode series this year. I watched the US version, and enjoyed it. I haven’t seen the original yet. People who have say the US version is a pale shadow. That Danish version must be really something. US ‘The Killing’ is slow, moody (set in [...]
Michelle Rodriguez lives! So if you didn’t stay til the end of ‘Fast Five’ (sorry UK distributors, but I ain’t calling it ‘Fast and Furious 5′, morons), then you would have missed a mysterious photo of Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) that appeared to suggest she’s still alive (we saw her die at the beginning of the [...]
There’s absolutely no reason for posting these ‘Die Hard’ videos other than the fact that it’s one of the greatest films ever, and it’s the weekend. Yippee-ki-yay! Apologies for the dodgy video-camming! Tweet This Post